The Department of Communication

The Department of Communication examines human message systems, focusing particularly on the ways in which human beings create, exchange, and are affected by messages.

Faculty and graduate student teaching and research interests include communication technology, health communication, interpersonal communication, mass communication, political communication, and organizational/small group communication.

Department of Gender and Women’s Studies

The Department of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of Arizona stands at the cutting edge of interdisciplinary feminist research and curriculum. Founded as a program in 1975 and gaining full departmental status in 1997, GWS currently offers BA, MA/JD, and PhD degree programs, and its renowned faculty—composed of 13 core faculty and over 60 affiliates—work in a wide range of areas including: 

• Queer Critical Race and Ethnic Studies; Chicana/Latina Studies; Migration and Borderlands Studies
• LGBTQ Studies; Transgender Studies
• Feminist Transnational Cultural Studies
• Feminist Science and Technology Studies
• Critical Health and Body Studies
• Feminist Pedagogy and Curriculum Development

School of Government and Public Policy

Civic leadership and civil discourse are at the heart of our undergraduate programs. Our goal is to train citizens for effective participation in public affairs in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in ways that enrich our democratic political system, market economy, and civil society.

Human Rights Practice

The wholly online Masters degree and graduate certificate in Human Rights Practice are professionally oriented programs designed to provide participants with the foundational knowledge, critical perspectives, and practical skills to advance human rights around the globe.

School of Journalism

The school has a strong tradition of training journalists the fundamentals that will help them succeed in any career, whether print, broadcast or online. Students learn how to gather information, critically analyze it, and communicate it effectively, accurately, and ethically. Specialties include international journalism, science/environmental journalism, and public affairs journalism, led by faculty who have professional experience from the New York Times, National Geographic, and other world-class news organizations. Active research includes how journalists visually portray war, dangers to journalists along the U.S.-Mexico border, the history of the radical press, and freedom of information around the world.

Late Medieval and Reformation Studies

Reuniting three fields—late medieval, Reformation, and early modern history—which in the European tradition were long separated along confessional lines, the Division promotes graduate research transcending these demarcations. At the same time, it encompasses social, political, religious, economic, and cultural developments in early modern Europe.

Department of Linguistics

Have you ever wondered why we say "feet" rather than "foots"? Or how a child at the age of 3 has a vocabulary of 14,000 words but can't tie her own shoes? Or what we do with our mouths to make a b sound different from a p? Or why we rarely say what we actually mean?

School of Middle Eastern & North African Studies

The School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies is a multi-disciplinary unit focusing on the region extending from Morocco to Afghanistan which includes the Arab world, Iran, Israel and Turkey, providing a full range of language courses in Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew (through Judaic Studies) and undergraduate and graduate studies in culture, history, religion, politics and conflict.