Renamed in March 2019 after our first graduate of color, Ebenezer D Bassett, this academic building houses the departments of Anthropology, Geography, History, Hospitality & Tourism, Political Science, and Sociology. The building includes classrooms, computer labs, specialized laboratories, a map room, student lounge/study areas, and department and faculty offices.
Bassett Hall
Media Gallery
Geography
Political Science
Anthropology
History
Sociology
Tourism and Hospitality
🌏 Geography
Geography programs offer international and integrative perspectives on the relations among social, economic, and biophysical processes that affect interconnections between people, environments and places on the earth's surface.
🏛 Political Science
The Department of Political Science strives to build a broad foundational understanding of the principles of our discipline. We seek to prepare students for informed and responsible citizenship and civic engagement in a rapidly changing world.
🗺 Anthropology
The Anthropology program is designed to provide students with a comprehensive, integrated, and interdisciplinary social science background and to prepare them for a range of careers; our graduates work a variety of fields, from education to public service, marketing, and international management, to cultural resources management and museum curation. The department offers minors in cultural anthropology, archaeology, practicing anthropology, and biological anthropology
📚 History
The History major provides students with a chance to explore the varied pasts of peoples—from presidents of the United States to needle workers in Puerto Rico to samurai in Japan—and places such as modern Brazil and its history of export agriculture. Students take courses in 3 areas—United States, Europe, Non-West (Africa, Asia, Latin America, Middle East). The History major also teaches key skills—data analysis, argument creation, clear writing, and persuasive speaking. Our highly regarded faculty are dedicated to teaching and research.
🏫 Sociology
The Department of Sociology prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged, and responsible citizens in an interdependent world. Students are provided with a firm understanding of the complex social structures and processes that connect their private lives and experiences to their present society as well as to the multi-varied characteristics of a global society.
🏨 Tourism and Hospitality
Hospitality and Tourism involves the business of attracting, transporting, lodging, entertaining, and providing food and beverages to people. It is one of the fastest-growing segments in Connecticut's economy. This course of study is designed as an interdisciplinary program between the Geography Department and the Marketing Department, leading to a Bachelor of Science in Hospitality and Tourism.
