Puget Sound offers various courses of study with content that may be of particular interest to students who want to pursue scholarly inquiry that is mindful of and examines such ideals as culture, identity, diversity, inclusion, and power.
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Students in the African American Studies Program acquire a basic knowledge of African American and other African diasporic experiences; develop an understanding of the role of race in African American life and also in the broader social and institutional relations of the United States and other parts of the Americas; become familiar with local, regional, national, and international issues of race, power, and multiculturalism and the implications these have for students' daily lives; and formulate personal critical perspectives that can guide ethical and political actions. |
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The underlying assumption of all aspects of the Asian Studies Program is that the vast region labeled 'Asia' is complex and diverse and that varied Asian peoples and institutions have greatly influenced, and continue to influence, human experience throughout the world. Courses in the program allow students to develop the ability to read difficult texts, to understand and to formulate abstract ideas, and to make informed judgments about a world of many cultures and about their own society as viewed by others. |
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As the home to one of the nation's first Women's Studies programs, the University of Puget Sound has a long tradition of exploring gender and sexuality issues. The current Gender & Queer Studies program enriches and expands the college's curriculum by illuminating how gender and multiple other converging axes of identity frame every aspect of life. |
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The International Political Economy (IPE) Program offers a multidisciplinary approach to studying international and global problems. International Political Economy encourages the integrated analysis of these problems and issues using tools and methods of political science, economics, and sociology as informed by an understanding of history and tempered by an appreciation of culture and cultural differences. |
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As an interdisciplinary program with a transnational focus, Latin American Studies offers students a critical, multifaceted understanding of the region and its relations with the United States and other global actors. The program questions how the diverse histories, communities, and dynamics of the region have come to be understood as constituting a singular cultural, political, and economic space and how designation has shaped residents' own lives and politics. Using the tools of history, political science, economics, anthropology, art, and literary studies, the courses pay particular attention to how differences in national identity, citizenship status, class, race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality both reflect and reproduce long-standing relations of inequality as well as resilience and agency among diverse constituencies across the region. |
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The student of Latina/o Studies explores the historical, cultural, political, and socioeconomic experiences of the largest ethnic minority in the United States, Latinos. Latina/Latino Studies aims to produce knowledge about communities and populations of Latin American descent living in the United States. Taking an interdisciplinary methodology, the minor provides a comprehensive and in-depth approach to key issues, research, and cultural facets of the Latina/o experience. Students minoring in Latina/o Studies prepare themselves for graduate studies and careers in social and welfare policy, law, counseling, public policy, health care, education, advertising, journalism, and among other fields, education. |