International Programs and Research in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The College of Social and Behavioral Sciences (SBS) focuses on the understanding of human beings, the groups they form, and the societies and cultures they create.
Our faculty research real world problems, ranging from homelessness and food security in the Third World to the neurological causes of Alzheimer's disease and the preservation of Native American languages. Our students and faculty address issues on the border between the United States and Mexico, as well as issues of borderlands on a global level. We have ethnic and area studies programs focused on the Middle East, Mexico and Latin America, Europe and the Far East.
Units and Programs
Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS)
http://las.arizona.edu/
Latin American Studies hosts an outstanding faculty with particular strengths in Mexico, Brazil, environmental studies, border studies, indigenous studies, and women’s studies. CLAS coordinates a broad range of instructional, research and outreach activities relating to Latin America.
Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
http://www.cmes.arizona.edu/
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES) is a Title VI National Resource Center supported by the U.S. Department of Education. The Center supports and promotes Middle East language, teaching and research throughout the University, and fosters understanding of the Middle East through an extensive program of outreach to schools and the wider community. CMES provides undergraduate and graduate students with information and support for UA and other study abroad programs and funding opportunities.
European Study Group
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~cwhalvor/euc/index.php
The UA European Study Group seeks to promote teaching, research and outreach activities related to European studies. The Group is currently hosted in the Department of Geography and Regional Development under the co-chairing of Sandy Dall’erba (GRD)) and Tom Volgy (Political Science)
Near Eastern Studies, Department of (NES)
http://fp.arizona.edu/neareast/
NES investigates the languages (Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Hebrew-- which is taught in Judaic Studies), history, cultures, literature and geography of the region now known as the Middle East, but referred to as the Near East for studies of the pre-Christian era. This region includes the Arab world, Turkey, Iran and Israel, and ranges from Morocco on the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf.
Geography and Regional Development, Department of (GRD)
http://geog.arizona.edu/
In additional to doing extensive research in other countries, GRD has a summer program in Oaxaca, Mexico, and a winter session field camp in Sonora, Mexico.
http://studyabroad.arizona.edu/display_program.php?id=103
http://studyabroad.arizona.edu/display_program.php?id=130
The Planning Degree Program in GRD has a concentration in International/Borderlands Planning. They currently have projects on-going in Mexico and on sovereign Native American Reservations.
http://www.planning.arizona.edu/index.htm
International Journalism Program
http://journalism.arizona.edu/news/101405intlProg.php
The Program in International Journalism is a collaboration among the journalism department, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Near Eastern Studies department. It enables students to combine regional and language studies with opportunities to do research, reporting and digital-imaging work in other countries. Since its inception in 2004, students have traveled to Chile, Panama, Mexico and, in 2007, to Puerto Rico.
Southwest Center
http://swctr.web.arizona.edu/
The Southwest Center conducts about 50 percent of its work in Mexico, or representing Mexico. The Center provides a platform for cross-disciplinary regional studies through publications, research, outreach, and conferences.
The Southwest Institute for Research on Women: The Transborder Consortium for Research and Action On Gender and Health at the Mexico-U.S. Border
http://www.sirow.web.arizona.edu/projects/index.php
http://borderhealth.arizona.edu/
The Transborder Consortium is a project between the Southwest Institute for Research on Women (SIROW), the Health and Society Program at El Colegio de Sonora in Hermosillo (COLSON), and various other health practitioners and research affiliates in the border region.
Yangtze International Study Abroad
http://studyabroad.arizona.edu/display_program.php?id=137
The University of Arizona is collaborating with Yangtze International Study Abroad and Nanjing University of Technology in Nanjing, China to provide American college students with a unique study abroad experience. SBS areas of study include political science and anthropology.
Research
SBS is the home to several departments that focus on or address international issues. We have units that specialize in specific regions such as the Center for Latin American Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Near Eastern Studies, and the Southwest Center; units which do extensive field work in other countries such as anthropology, the Bureau for Applied Research in Anthropology, and geography and regional development; and other units which incorporate international issues such as communication, history, linguistics, Judaic Studies, political science, sociology, and women’s studies.
Here is a sample of research on international issues from SBS:
http://sbs.arizona.edu/insights/internat/internat.html
Our research in environment and water also incorporates many international projects:
http://sbs.arizona.edu/insights/env/env.html
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