Venezuelan Graduate Student Finds Home at WNMU
Oscar Arteaga expected to spend recent years working on his MBA in Kansas, but when his husband found a job in Silver City, Arteaga saw a new opportunity at WNMU, and he quickly decided to expand his educational experience beyond business. While business administration remains one of his concentration areas in the WNMU MA in Interdisciplinary Studies program, he has added two others: sociology and kinesiology. “I like sociology because it has to do with human behavior,” Arteaga, who is originally from Venezuela, explained. Similarly, kinesiology has given him “an opportunity to learn about the human body, body movement, physical activity,” he said. Currently in his second year of the program, Arteaga appreciates how his unusual combination of concentrations allows him to explore “human life in its different facets.” He gets to study human behavior and relationships, social interactions, the decision-making process, leadership, management, physical activity, and...