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- Familiarity with terminology, facts, conventions, methodology, concepts, principles, generalizations, and theories
- Ability to understand, interpret, and analyze graphic, pictorial, or written material
- Ability to apply abstractions to particulars, and to apply hypotheses, concepts, theories, or principles to given data
Topics covered include:
- History
- United States History: Requires a general understanding of historical issues associated with the colonial period, revolutionary period, late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Civil War and Reconstruction, and late nineteenth and twentieth centuries
- Western Civilization: Covers Western Asia, Greece, and Rome; medieval Europe and modern Europe, including its expansion and outposts in other parts of the world
- World History: Covers Africa, Australia, North America, and Latin America from prehistory to present
- Social Sciences
- Government/political science
- United States institutions
- voting and political behavior
- international relations
- comparative government
- Sociology
- methods
- demography
- social theory
- social stratification
- deviance
- social organization
- interaction
- social change
- family
- Economics
- scarcity
- product markets
- resource markets
- monetary and fiscal policy
- international trade
- economic measurements
- Psychology
- aggression
- socialization
- conformity
- methods
- group process
- performance
- personality
- Geography
- weather and climate
- regional geography
- ecology
- distance
- location
- space accessibility
- spatial interaction
- Anthropology
- cultural anthropology
- ethnography
- Government/political science
(Taken from “Social Sciences and History,” CLEP: Social Sciences and History Exam