African and African Diaspora Studies: African and African Diaspora Studies is designed to help students explore, examine, and critically analyze the African presence in a global context. This presence stretches to antiquity in Europe and Asia, and for centuries in the Americas, but serious and sustained efforts to understand the profoundly rich, dynamic, and complex contributions to the world's civilizations have been lacking. Students are provided background and tools to investigate the agency, experiences, and movements of African and African Diaspora people that span time and place and bridge academic disciplines.

Asian Studies: The Asian Studies study area provides language study, course offerings in art, economics, history, literature, philosophy, and religious studies, and offers a study abroad program at Fudan University in Shanghai, one of China's most distinguished universities. Participation in the study area is possible in any major, and in addition to broadening student horizons in the liberal arts, it provides excellent preparation for advanced academic studies and future careers in the U.S. Foreign Service, in the United Nations or similar international organizations, and in multinational business.

Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies: Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies is a cross-disciplinary area of inquiry that investigates the social, psychological, biological, and cultural construction of gender, as well as the ways women and men locate themselves within gender systems. Because femeninities and masculinities vary as a result of cultural, historical, political, and institutional forces, gender inquiry helps students understand the multiple ways gender and gender relations are socially constructed, and how those understandings of gender in turn shape virtually every aspect of our everyday lives: political institutions, law, the economy, the family, education, work, literature, the arts, media, philosophy, religion, and sexuality.