Southwest Studies

As the Center of Southwest Studies’ academic arm, the Department offers a program in Southwest Studies that is interdisciplinary in approach. By understanding the region’s distinct environments and diverse cultures and how those peoples and environs interacted to define and redefine one another, graduates will find their lives deepened and their career opportunities in teaching, government, museum work, archives, public history, and graduate school admissions enhanced. To fully grasp a broad-based and in-depth understanding of the region, a variety of course selections are offered from the natural sciences, social sciences and fine arts.

The degree in Southwest Studies focuses on museum studies, public history, environmental studies and field-based studies in the Four Corners and the greater Southwest and Borderlands region. It includes 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.

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