Describes a college-level social science course which deals with social systems in a way that is meaningful to students, affectively-oriented, interdisciplinary, and supportive of class participation. (Author/DB)

This paper presents a new approach designed to help students understand the concepts around which introductory social and political science courses are typically built. The social science course, "Problem Solving in Society," includes an exercise requiring the class as a whole to select, and develop proposals to alleviate, a social problem.…