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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.

A scene from "The Cuts" showing actors Rachel Millar and Miles Anderson.
July 22, 2026
Money problems vex theater department in new short film
As the theater faculty at fictional Riverbottom College brainstorm ways to shore up their department’s faltering budget, some interesting proposals emerge. These include issuing a departmental meme coin, creating a faculty boudoir calendar, and selling blood plasma.
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Russian fuel tanker
July 13, 2026
Expert: When assessing war, consider Putin's pain threshold
More than four years after Russia invaded Ukraine, there have been several developments in Ukraine's favor. President Trump, who has vacilated on his support of Ukraine, said he would sell Patriot missile technology to Ukraine. Ukraine has started an effective strategy of targeting fuel tankers Russia relies on to supply its army, and drones have targeted oil refineries and fuel depots. In the past days, a senatorial delegation traveled to Ukraine to discuss strengthening Ukraine's air defenses and further sanctions on Russia.
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Students performing a stage reading
July 02, 2026
Celebrating two decades of Playworks
In a black-box theater with dark walls, bright lights, and an empty stage, student actors relied solely on their voices and expressions to bring a series of 10-minute plays to life at UC Riverside's 19th Playworks event. Covering topics ranging from the impacts of ICE and AI to experiences with grief and love, the stage readings took place in the Studio Theatre of the Arts Building. A small stage surrounded on three sides allowed the audience members and actors to observe each other in an intimate setting. 
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line of pensioners outside the Wilbur J. Cohen building in Washington, DC
June 26, 2026
UCR experts examine Social Security 'sleight of hand'
For more than 30 years, there have been episodic, gloomy reports about the fate of social security. And politicians have broached this “third rail” of the American political landscape with great trepidation. Recent reports are sounding the alarms again, with Social Security trustees saying that, by 2032, 30% of Americans will be receiving benefits, and the fund will run dry. The prospects could be dire: Payments could drop by 23% and will continue to decrease.
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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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