The College of Arts and Sciences is your place to study how the world is shaped by human behavior. Here, curiosity leads to connection, by discovering patterns, drawing conclusions, and to drive change. In the social sciences, we seek to understand both how our social structures operate and why they work this way in order to improve the institutions and processes that affect people’s lives every day.
Social scientists use systematic and evidence-based methodologies to study the relationships and influences that have the power to impact society. Why do people behave as they do? How is culture created? How are social inequalities produced and how do those inequalities shape our daily lives? Answering questions like these takes the work of many different disciplines investigating many different aspects of the social world: economics, government, health, medicine, environment, education, religion, gender, sexuality, and more.
- African American and African Diaspora Studies
- American Indian Studies Research Institute
- American Studies
- Anthropology
- Asian American Studies
- Criminal Justice
- Economics
- Gender Studies
- Geography
- History
- History and Philosophy of Science and Medicine
- Latino Studies
- Linguistics
- Native American and Indigenous Studies
- Political and Civic Engagement (PACE)
- Political Science
- Race, Migration, and Indigeneity
- Second Language Studies
- Sociology