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College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences

The College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences (CAHSS) is an artistic, creative, and intellectual community. It is an equitable partnership of staff, faculty, and students who are devoted to teaching, learning, and collaboration. The many fields within CAHSS provide the greatest breadth for service-learning, creative engagement, and professional opportunity within a diverse and changing society.

Hands-on Experience

Our programs and majors offer many unique opportunities to extend learning beyond the classroom including student performances, studios, laboratories, newsrooms, internships, and more. Hands-on learning enriches the student, the university, and the community, tying academic study to real-world experiences.

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Study Abroad

Studying abroad is an exciting way to enhance an undergraduate experience through exposure to different cultures, languages, and communities. Travel, explore, embrace new environments, all while making progress toward graduation.

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Personal Attention

It’s the difference between sitting through a lesson and playing a role in creating it. Feel challenged by faculty who expand students’ worldview and supported by departments that pride themselves on personalized attention.

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Place-Based Learning Communities

Learning goes beyond the classroom at Humboldt. We learn from the environment we are in. Our Place-Based Learning Communities provide you with a tight-knit community of like minded peers before classes even start. These connections will help you navigate college life, gain confidence, succeed academically, and gain a sense of belonging within the Humboldt community.

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Achievements

CAHSS Achievements

Faculty

Rachel Samet

Music
Submitted: December 2, 2024

Rachel Samet, Conductor of the Cal Poly Humboldt Choirs, has been selected as the 24/25 Music Educator of the Year by the North Coast chapter of the California Music Educators Association.  Rachel will receive her award at the All-State Music Educators Conference in January.  

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Eliseo Casiano

Art + Film
Submitted: December 2, 2024

Paintings by Assistant Professor Eliseo Casiano are now on view at the Morris Graves Museum Museum of Art in Eureka.  The exhibition - How to Draw Fire - will be open until December 15th. The Morris Graves is open Wednesday- Sunday 12:00 pm- 5:00 pm. 

 

Faculty

Vincent Biondo

History
Submitted: December 2, 2024

Vincent Biondo presented his paper "Baseball Religion in the United States" at the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in San Diego on November 23, 2024.

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CAHSS Alumni Updates

Tim Beals

Geography, 1973
Submitted: November 12, 2024

Tim graduated in 1973 with a BA in Geography and was immediately hired by Sierra County, California. Tim and his wife Marcia live in Sierra City (Sierra County) and they have two sons and seven granddaughters, ages three to twelve, all living in Chico. Tim retired in June 2023 after fifty years of public service as a County Official/Administrator overseeing the County Planning and Land Use, Building Inspection, Public Works and Roads, Emergency Services, and Parks and Recreation departments within the County. Now his time is filled with hiking, fishing, travel, granddaughter sports games, wine tasting, concerts, and good friends!

Daniel Gardner

Anthropology, 2013
Submitted: November 5, 2024

Daniel completed his Ph.D. in Informatics at UCI in 2021. He served as a Grand Challenges Postdoctoral Fellow at Chapman until June 2024 and now has an appointment as a Lecturer in Computing and Game Design at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, UK. Currently, Daniel's research examines inequitable interactions with digital media and games, and community-driven co-/counter-designs.

Steven Jehly

History, 1974
Submitted: October 8, 2024

Steven graduated with a BA degree in History and earned a state Elementary and Secondary teaching certificate. He was immediately hired by the Greater Sitka Borough School District to teach K-8 at a remote logging camp at Corner Bay, Tenakee Inlet, Alaska. He transferred to Sitka after three incredible years. He taught 4th-8th grade elementary and retired from GSBSD in 2001. He took up metal sculpting and in 2005 moved to Orcas Island, Washington.  He likes island life. 

 

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