Public Administration
The public administration minor provides a broad understanding of the political, managerial, and quantitative aspects of public agency functions and policy activities.
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social sciences
Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies
Gender, sexuality, and women’s studies aims to understand gender and sexuality as interrelated systems of structural inequality. The department centers gender minorities—including women and LGBTQ+ people—in everything it does, but it also focuses on the ways in which sexism, heterosexism, and cisexism harm all people, including men and straight cisgender individuals.
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Sociomedical Sciences
Sociomedical sciences focus on the social determinants of disease and health and examine the correlation between trends in health and its social causes, including social inequality and structural inequity.
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Psychology
A growing need for mental health professionals in the US makes the psychology field of great interest. As the world population becomes more diversified, the need for understanding human diversity and personality types only increases.
Sociology
The sociology major emphasizes scientific and humanistic approaches to exploring economic and political institutions, culture, media, family, urban life, families, crime, and other aspects of social life.
Political Science
The political science major focuses on the study of politics in the United States and other countries other than the United States, the political relations between nations, and the contributions of political philosophers.
Neuroscience
The neuroscience major is an interdisciplinary program designed to prepare students for advanced studies in brain and cognitive sciences in a graduate school, medical school, or related health program, or for a career in the biomedical industry.
English
Widely honored for its teaching excellence, the English department believes students flourish when given the freedom to pursue their own passions. The English major is short on rigid requirements and long on dynamism and variety.
Communication
Interpersonal communication, mass communication, public speaking—students of human communication learn it all. The major integrates both theory and practical application into a comprehensive liberal arts program that encourages individualization.
Black and Africana Studies
The major is designed for students who want to understand why Black lives matter from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Our country is dealing with the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow, confronting the devastation of mass incarceration, and understanding recent events in the light of white supremacy.
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