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Southwest Studies

The Department of Southwest Studies and American Indian Studies offers degree programs in Native American and Indigenous Studies and Southwest Studies.  Both degree programs are interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from faculty expertise in history, cultural geography, ethnic studies, art, anthropology, sociology, and American Studies.

Native American and Indigenous Studies
The degree in Native American and Indigenous Studies (formerly known as American Indian Studies) serves as the academic arm of the College’s sacred trust with tribes in the United States.  The degree focuses on cultural history, policy, media studies, and museum studies, while at the same time offering courses on the indigenous experience in the Americas and around the world.

Southwest Studies
The degree in Southwest Studies is the academic corollary of the college’s Center of Southwest Studies. The degree focuses on museum studies, public history, environmental studies and field-based studies in the Four Corners and the greater Southwest and Borderlands region.

Both degrees include course work that brings students in direct contact with the human and ecological communities of our immediate region, but also with the research library, archives and museum in the Center of Southwest Studies which houses thousands of artifacts, relics, and photographs of the Southwest.