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Our social justice-oriented program prepares students to be active community members and global citizens
Anthropology and Sociology (ANSO) is an interdisciplinary program that offers students a critical introduction to both disciplines, putting particular emphasis on how each uniquely addresses race, gender, sexuality, economy, and environment. Students develop a wide array of research skills and learn how to make use of them and the two disciplinary perspectives in ways that foster justice and recognize and honor commitments to communities. Applied and community-engaged learning are encouraged and supported with appropriate training.
As an interdisciplinary faculty, our teaching and research draw heavily from anthropology and sociology as well as an array of other fields in the social sciences and humanities. Our focus is the study of social problems and social change with an emphasis on race, class, gender, sexuality, and environment. We aim to give students the tools to understand how power circulates in society, cultures, and social structures, and how to partner with community groups to make a difference. We also emphasize applied and community-based work through community partnerships. Electives explore subjects such as social psychology, environmental education, community organizing, gentrification, and transformative practice.
Our intersectional pedagogy welcomes all students and centers the voices and needs of historically-marginalized communities. Together, we work to prepare you to engage in critical analyses of institutional power and practices, and to transform individual and group consciousness with an orientation to social action.
Our proposed new curriculum promotes greater interdisciplinary as well as multidisciplinarity across our disciplines.
Our proposed new curriculum also aims to make intersectionality or intersectional justice a throughline in the students' learning experience.
Our proposed new curriculum seeks to prepare our students to apply their anthropological/sociological knowledge in ways that are critical and community engaged as they confront the global issues/challenges our world is facing in the 21st Century and beyond.
Finally, we have enhanced the opportunities for our students to develop the knowledge and the skills necessary for doing social science research in critical, ethical ways.
Program type
Major & Minor
Degree
B.A.
School
College of Arts and Science
Learning Format
In-Person
Duration
4 years
Tuition and Fees
Undergraduate Tuition & Fees
"The training in sociology I received at Seattle University has been invaluable to my life's work in racial justice education. My entire body of scholarship - as well as my daily practice as a group facilitator - is grounded in a sociological framework. This framework has enabled me to see the social dynamics at play that are not necessarily conscious or intentional but impacting outcomes nonetheless."
"Haleema Bharoocha is a Gen Z South Asian American striving to speak truth to power. As she quotes from the Quran, 'Stand firm in justice be it against yourselves or your parents.' "