To learn from the Southwest is to learn from the Global Village
The Mission of Southwest Studies is the examination of the greater U.S. Southwest Region through a variety of lenses capturing the complexity that diverse people have created in a specific place. Spanning New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada and parts of Colorado, Utah, California, Oklahoma and northern Mexico, the diversity of the Southwest’s landscapes and cultures rival few other regions on the globe. This blend of peoples and histories living in distinctive cultural ecologies provides a model for study applicable to any region. Using the tools of traditional disciplines in combination with interdisciplinary techniques, we learn to observe and analyze places and people and use these skills to solve real problems.
Academics
The Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies is an academic home for multi-talented and synergistic thinkers. 'Learning across the disciplines' fits the way they think. Consider becoming a Southwest Studies major or minor.
Community Outreach
Southwest Studies reciprocates the region’s gifts by providing student and faculty research services to communities engaged in economic justice, environmental justice and the protection of cultural rights.