SWSTMINU - Southwest Studies

Undergraduate Minor

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Undergraduate

The Southwest Studies minor offers an expansive undergraduate experience rooted in the intensive study of the peoples, places, and landscapes of the Southwest and borderlands region. Developing a strong intellectual foundation and the practical skills to become engaged and compassionate global citizens committed to lifelong learning. Leveraging the University of Arizona's traditional strengths in research and education focused on the US Southwest, Northern Mexico, and the US-Mexico borderlands to foster an environment of collaborative exploration, diversity and inclusion, (inter)cultural competency, social justice, and an ethical commitment to the region by way of a reflective understanding of its many facets. By exploring the region's diverse peoples, institutions, traditions, histories, ecologies, languages, and places, Southwest Studies students will be exposed to a broad range of topics and fields, as well as to innovative methods by which to study and understand them.

- Students can identify and distinguish among the plural histories and cultural expressions of indigenous, colonial, and settler cultures across the region of the Southwest US.
- Students will be able to communicate effectively orally and in writing.
- Students can identify connections among environmental, social, and cultural processes and analyze complex, plural relationships among space, place, and identity in the region.