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The mission of the Southwest Studies program is to provide the finest liberal arts education, using a critical regional studies approach, centered on the Greater Southwest and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.
The program's interdisciplinary approach to people, places, and landscapes provides a model of study applicable to various professions. Southwest Studies' place-based pedagogy allows students to learn from and with the southwest region in order to co-create sustainable solutions to issues regarding environmentalism, immigration, education, etc.
The Southwest Studies program is housed in the Hulbert Center for Southwest Studies, located at 1109 N. Cascade (just north of the Tutt Library). Stop by our office to learn more about our course offerings, major and minor, and special programs. For further information contact swshulbert@ColoradoCollege.edu.
Alumni Spotlight
Andrew Wallace '12
What are you up to?
I’m currently working as a freelance consultant to non-profits and foundations as a strategist, researcher, and advisor. I help teams think through hard problems or bring new projects to life. I come to this chapter in my career after working in public media, and then doing advocacy and communications related to LGBT rights and well-being.
How has Southwest Studies influenced your journey after 91×ÔÅÄ?
As a Southwest studies major I really developed an appreciation of how, even in a digitized and globalized world, local environments and local cultures, shape how people organize, collaborate, and make change together. While little about my work today has explicit connection to the American Southwest, this attunement to locality informs everything that I do.
After working for 10 years in the social impact sector, I am now considering the potential of returning to graduate school and I’m realizing how much the interdisciplinary nature of the SWS degree is an advantage because I can see my interests finding home in a range of academic disciplines.
The SWS program was also just excellent training in research and writing. In particular, I left understanding how situated research can help make sense of work in the public sphere, whether that’s policy and advocacy work or strategic work for organizations trying to navigate complex changes. I bring a kind of ethnographic curiosity and perspective to a lot of the work that I do.
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Sarah Krueger
Academic Administrative Assistant
(719) 389-6249
Street Address
Dern House
1109 N.Cascade
Colorado Springs, CO 80903
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