Access Programs are designed to expand college opportunities and success for youth traditionally underrepresented in higher education; encourage academic success for these underrepresented students; and improve the retention of those students who choose to attend the University of Puget Sound.
African American (AFAM) studies is interdisciplinary, with focal fields such as history, sociology, English studies, communication studies, political science, psychology, social theory, art, music, economics, education, and even natural sciences, including environmental science, with a social justice lens.
The Asian Languages and Cultures (ALC) Program, a component of the Asian Studies Program, offers majors, minors and courses of interest to all undergraduates at Puget Sound.
The Asian Studies Program provides courses on Asian cultures, civilizations, and societies, in a broad range that includes East Asia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia, as electives for all students.
The mission of the School of Business and Leadership is to provide students with a unique and innovative business education that prepares them for success as leaders in a complex and dynamic global environment.
The bioethics program encompasses work in the fields of biology, natural science, neuroscience, religion, philosophy, literature, sociology, psychology, politics, economics, and business.
The center is designed to address the curricular and co-curricular needs of a wide variety of classes and campus groups, and provides a collaborative space to practice and refine the skills of public speaking, argumentation, advocacy, and persuasion.
Peer tutoring in writing across the curriculum and in subject-specific content, classes and workshops, academic counseling, and foreign language proficiency assessments.
The Chemistry Department offers a broad-based curriculum designed to meet the needs of a variety of students, from those taking only one or two chemistry courses in order to broaden their liberal arts background to those majoring in chemistry in preparation for a career in the chemical sciences.
The Civic Scholarship Initiative supports programs that join together the south Puget Sound region and the University of Puget Sound's faculty and students in projects of mutual concern.
The pioneer of the interdisciplinary approach, the field of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies encompasses the languages, literature, philosophy, and history of the Mediterranean from the second millennium BC to the fifth century AD. The Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies Department presents as wide a range of courses as possible in this diverse but fundamentally unified field.
Students majoring in Communication Studies examine the human, social, political, institutional, and mediated dimensions of human communication practices and processes.
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science offers courses in support of students who need a general introduction to these fields and students who need specific tools and techniques in support of their own fields of study.
Information on campus cafés, the Diner, and the Cellar, including current menus, as well as information on catering and using campus facilities for events.
The mission of the Economics program is to educate undergraduates in the fundamental concepts and methods of economics and to help them become better informed and more productive citizens through enhanced understanding of the economic underpinnings of society.
The M.A.T. program is a carefully designed cohort program that requires a full-time commitment and your full engagement in the transformative process of becoming a teacher. The M.Ed. program leads to K-12 school counseling certification in Washington state and can be completed part-time, in the evenings. And the Education Studies program offers our undergraduate students a chance to minor in education.
Provides services and resources to faculty, students and support staff in the use of technology and digital media services to enhance teaching, learning and research.
To meet the educational needs of students interested in becoming engineers and who also want a significant liberal arts component to their education, the University of Puget Sound has responded with a Dual Degree Engineering Program.
The English Department aims to promote critical thinking, historical awareness, and effective communication through the study of literature and writing.
The Environmental Policy and Decision Making Program is an interdisciplinary minor program designed to help students integrate their major area of study with an understanding of how individual and collective decisions interact with the environment.
The mission of the Department of Exercise Science is to deliver a program that applies the scientific foundations of human movement to help graduates understand the complex relationships among work, physical activity, health, and realizing human potential.
Our expectation and aspiration is that every student who graduates from Puget Sound will have developed a coherent experience that builds and integrates a meaningful set of experiential learning activities in preparation for a successful and fulfilling personal, civic, and professional life.
Encompasses the Office of Finance, Business Services, Facilities Services, Human Resources, and Technology Services, and is led by the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
The French & Francophone Studies Department offers distinct majors that combine the study of language, culture and literature with international affairs, communications, music, theater and art, as well as a minor.
As the home to one of the nation's first Women's Studies programs, the University of Puget Sound has a long tradition of exploring issues pertaining to gender and sexuality. The current Gender & Queer Studies program enriches and expands the college's curriculum by illuminating the ways in which gender and multiple other converging axes of identity frame every aspect of life.
Supports the university and its senior leadership in the work to advance Puget Sound’s distinctive educational mission and strategic goals by anticipating legal and governance issues, managing risk, and facilitating the university’s compliance with all relevant laws and regulations.
The Geology Department at Puget Sound consists of five faculty members and roughly 25 majors. Our size enables us to offer a broad spectrum of classes while at the same time maintaining a close-knit and collegial learning environment.
In the age of globalization, the cultural experience of the migrant is defining more and more what it means to be human. This is why the German Studies faculty believes that sustained immersion in a different culture is essential to a modern education, regardless of major.
The Department of Hispanic Studies offers a sound educational experience centered on the study of the language as well as the literary and cultural production of Iberian, Latin American, and U.S. Hispanic cultures, from their origins to the present time.
Convinced that the study of history is an essential component of a superior education in the liberal arts and sciences, the Department of History offers a strong academic program in a number of areas within the discipline of history.
This intensive four-year program for students selected on the basis of their academic performance includes an option to live in the Honors residence house, Langlow.
Interdisciplinary studies in Humanities offers courses that draw upon the disciplines of history, literature, philosophy, religion, communication studies, art history, and music history to explore fundamental and enduring questions regarding the human condition.
Supports institutional management, planning, and decision-making by providing reports about Puget Sound's students, faculty and staff, instructional activities, and finances.
The International Political Economy (IPE) Program offers a multidisciplinary approach to the study of international and global problems. International Political Economy encourages the integrated analysis of these problems and issues using tools and methods of political science, economics, and sociology as informed by an understanding of history and tempered by appreciation of culture and cultural differences.
The Latin American Studies Program offers an interdisciplinary approach to the study of Latin America. Drawing on courses from foreign language, Politics and Government, business, art history, and History, students minoring in Latin American Studies gain an in-depth understanding of the region and different analytical tools and perspectives for understanding its past and present.
A key objective of Latina/o Studies is to integrate the body of knowledge pertaining to these populations into the United States' understanding of itself.
Collins Memorial Library offers over 550,000 volumes of books and paper journals, as well as music CDs, movie DVDs, online access to journal articles and state and federal documents.
The Logger Store carries course materials and supplies, as well as general interest books, technology products, personal care items, drinks, snacks, Puget Sound clothing, gifts, and more.
The Department of Mathematics and Computer Science offers courses in support of students who need a general introduction to these fields and students who need specific tools and techniques in support of their own fields of study.
As an undergraduate program at a liberal arts college, we are dedicated to the tradition of training musicians for successful professional careers in music and to supporting students who wish to study music, regardless of major.
The Neuroscience program offers a general introductory course in neuroscience as an elective for all students, and also offers a curricular concentration (interdisciplinary emphasis) that may serve as an enhancement of, or complement to, any major of a student's choice. This interdisciplinary emphasis provides additional opportunities for students to develop skills necessary to become successful scientists and is recognized with a designation on the transcript upon graduation.
The School of Occupational Therapy offers high quality educational opportunities at the master's level for individuals seeking to become an occupational therapist (entry level) as well as for occupational therapists who seek to advance their knowledge and skill level (post-professional level).
Philosophy can be described as the application of reason to the most general and fundamental questions of human concern, in order to give them the best justified possible answers. Students find that courses in the Philosophy Department develop an unusual range of intellectual abilities.
The Physics department addresses the needs of physics majors, Dual Degree Engineering students, and other science majors. The department also supports the university's liberal arts emphasis by providing coursework for students majoring in all areas, in order to broaden their intellectual reach.
Politics is about the struggle over power, authority, freedom, security and peace-the core issues of public life. The Department of Politics and Government trains students to understand these issues at the local, national, and international level, by providing a wide-ranging yet integrated study of politics and governance.
Print & Copy Services provides digital printing for departments, clubs, and personal projects for all faculty, staff, students, and neighbors; provides stationery order processing (letterhead, envelopes, and business cards); manages and provides support for Konica Minolta copiers placed around campus.
Psychology is the study of human thought and behavior. The psychology faculty and curriculum represent many of the major subdisciplines in psychology (e.g., development, clinical, cognition, learning, sensation, perception, biopsychology, personality, social, and industrial-organizational).
The Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) is a professional degree that prepares students as practitioners who are responsive to contemporary challenges in public health at local, regional, national and global levels.
The Race and Pedagogy Initiative is a collaboration of the University of Puget Sound and the South Sound community, which educates students and teachers at all levels to think critically about race and to act to eliminate racism.
The Department of Religious Studies seeks to help students understand the nature and importance of the world's great religious traditions in historical context and to glimpse some of the profound questions and answers about human nature and destiny that these traditions offer.
Science and technology are not isolated activities: they are inextricably linked to every other aspect of human experience. Science and technology have important connections to literature, philosophy, religion, art, economics, and to social and political history. Science, Technology, and Society courses explore the connections between the sciences and other parts of the human endeavor.
The disciplines of sociology and anthropology provide the foundation for an integrated curriculum in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Puget Sound.
The Sound Policy Institute builds the capacity of our campus and regional community to engage in environmental decision making and address systems of inequality and exclusion.
The Division of Student Affairs consists of the Dean of Students offices, as well as the Center for Student Support, Student Involvement & Programs, Residential Experience, and the University Chaplaincy.
Wheelock Student Center is a central hub that offers a variety of services and amenities for the campus community's students, faculty, staff, alumni, and guests.
The Student Diversity and Social Justice Centers (SDC and SJC) support student success through programs and shared spaces that bring awareness to, honor, and uplift all students’ identities, but especially those who identify as historically underrepresented by way of ethnicity, race, gender, religion, documentation status, socioeconomic class, first generation in college, and LGBTQ+ identities.