Bachelor of Arts in Social Thought and Political Economy

The Social Thought and Political Economy (STPEC) program is an interdisciplinary undergraduate major that encourages you to engage in a critical examination of society and to develop your own capacities for critical reading, writing, and thinking. At UMass Amherst, youll cross disciplinary lines such as Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Communication, Economics, History, Legal Studies, Sociology, and Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies to confront fundamental questions often ignored or neglected by traditional academic thought. Your courses will cover a range of issues and perspectives, including freedom and the state, structural inequality in the economy, work and work relations, the relationship of Western to non-Western cultures, the interrelationship of racism, sexism, and class oppression, the psychodynamics of politics, and theories of social change. The STPEC major is a hands-on field, so youll put theory into practice and develop your skills through internships in the community, playing a role in university and/or campus community affairs, and assuming active responsibility for the shape of your own education within the program.

Official high school transcript (grades 9 -11)
Official transcripts for all completed college coursework
Letter of recommendation
TOEFL: minimum composite score of 80 no subscore lower than 20
IELTS: minimum composite score of 6.5 on the academic test with no subscore lower than 6.0 (We will not accept paper IELTS test report forms).