May 31, 2025  
2025-26 Catalog 
    
2025-26 Catalog

Divisional Requirements: History and Social Sciences



Divisional Requirements

Each major is required to fulfill divisional distribution requirements by completing two of the following in addition to their home department requirements:

  1. ANTH 211  and either ANTH 201  or one additional upper-division anthropology course.
  2. Any two one-unit Reed College economics courses, or the equivalent.
  3. Any two one-unit Reed College history courses, or the equivalent.
  4. SOC 211  and one other sociology course.
  5. One introductory political science course (POL 220 POL 230 POL 240 POL 260 , or POL 280 ) and any other course in political science, but no more than one unit from 200-, 300-, or 400-level political theory (POL 280 , POL 380 - 415).

Note that for purposes of meeting HSS divisional requirements in anthropology, political science, or sociology, students must include the introductory course (ANTH 211 ; POL 220 POL 240 POL 260 , or POL 280 ; or SOC 211 ) as one of the required two units.