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College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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At home in the world.

The biggest college at UC Riverside, CHASS students and faculty create work that inspires the world and challenges the way we think about it.

Our students come with multi-faceted interests and aspirations. They leave with an integrated understanding of how to connect societal dots and reimagine our world.

Answering society’s biggest questions requires time and minds from all walks of life. Your support assists us to continue doing so with respect and excellence.

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CHASS in Numbers

30+

DEPARTMENTS

60+

MAJORS

500+

FACULTY

10,000+

STUDENTS

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Initiatives You Can Support

CHASS is home to units that date back to the founding of UC Riverside, as well as an exciting mix of newer trans- and interdisciplinary academic programs that center on social justice and climate work.

With your support, we can continue to reinvigorate and expand structures of excellence for tomorrow’s liberal arts scholars.

 

High-Impact Learning

A key aim of CHASS curriculum is to equip students with an awareness of the impact their ideas can have on the world they’re graduating into.

Your support will assist us in making experiential learning more accessible through:

  • Funded research
  • Internships
  • Service learning
  • Education abroad
  • Career services

 

Faculty

Home to 3 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 poet laureates, 2 Guggenheim Fellows, and even an officially honored and recognized Knight, our faculty are among the world’s top minds.

With your support we can expand support for their groundbreaking research and teaching through 5 new:

  • Endowed chairs
  • Named chairs
  • Term chairs

 

 

Student Scholarships

For individuals to reimagine a better world, we must first give them the opportunity to do that in their own lives.

With your support we can grow our scholarship offerings for both undergraduate and graduate students.

 

 

 

 

Through our combined 33+ psychology, anthropology, and sociology research labs, and 3 public art galleries, the students and faculty at CHASS are exploring the big ideas of our time through an integrated and multi-disciplinary lens.

With your support we can continue to, with greater efficacy and bandwidth, accelerate our capacity to inform our societal and global conversations with the perspective and nuance that brings forward solutions and art of inclusive understanding.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE WITH CHASS

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More from CHASS

Read the latest research.

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Graphic novelist helps Lion Man roar back to comics
A little-known comic book character considered one of the first Black superheroes is getting a revival by a team of artists including UC Riverside professor John Jennings. Jennings, a professor of media and cultural studies and an award-winning graphic novelist, is one of the creators behind “The Adventures of Lion Man,” an anthology graphic novel released Aug. 12 by Rosarium Publishing.
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Gerrymandering erodes confidence in democracy
UCR political science professor Shaun Bowler used survey data from tens of thousands of voters in the 2020 and 2022 elections show that Americans view gerrymandering with the same disdain they reserve for bribery and other blatant forms of political corruption.
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Gossip is good for romance, study finds
“Spill the Tea, Honey: Gossiping Predicts Well-Being in Same- and Different-Gender Couples” is the name of a new study from UC Riverside psychology researchers that found gossip within couples is associated with greater happiness and better relationships.
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For seniors: the mental health payoff of staying curious
New research shows that older adults who challenge themselves to learn new things are less likely to experience loneliness or depression, even during times of major upheaval.
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Before CHASS, I wasn’t able to discuss, research, or write about queer topics that I loved, but here I’ve been given resources and opportunities to contribute my own voice in academia, and to join conversations that have been otherwise silencing.
Justin Daniel Domecillo
English
One of the things I like about CHASS is that it really makes us question what makes us human. I feel that it delves deeper and is more critical of what makes us ‘us,’ and that’s why I chose history. I feel like it shows where we came from and how we started out.
Jon Paredes
History
My favorite thing about CHASS is that it involves just as much unlearning as it does learning new material...Being a CHASS student means constantly rethinking the structures and systems that we have always considered normal because normal isn’t always right.
Sukhmeen Kaur Kahlon
Political Science/Law & Society
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