Employable Skills And Collaboration

Our program elevates applicable skills across several fields of production, including photography, animation, audio production and film, and encourages creative collaboration as a vital part of real world success.

Personal Attention

Our small class sizes mean working closely with your peers and professors to cultivate lasting connections. You’ll get real time support and feedback to help you grow as an artist.

Critical Perspectives

You’ll learn to create work in an ethically driven way, by understanding historical and contemporary contexts and applying critical theory to media art making. 

Our facilities include a foundry, ceramics lab, printmaking studio, photography lab, galleries, and much more. You’ll get hands-on experience in many disciplines of your choosing.

Our small class sizes mean getting to know your professors and fellow students. Your connections will help you grow as an artist and intellectual.

The local area is well-known as an intimate but inclusive arts haven. You’ll interact with professional artists and show art in local galleries.

In our first-year learning community, you’ll chemically analyze a river water sample to determine the human impact on the natural environment.
 

We have active undergraduate research programs where you have the opportunity to specialize in a particular area of biochemistry.

Participate in the Free Radicals Chemistry Club, our department’s award winning student affiliate of the American Chemical Society.

Build your own degree, choosing courses from a variety of disciplines.

With in-person, hybrid, and online courses available, the program is designed to work around your schedule.
 

Up to 6 units of paid or unpaid internship/experiential learning can be counted towards your major or taken as electives.

Develop interdisciplinary thinking and the ability to analyze the world from multiple perspectives.

Students have the opportunity to teach classes through Humboldt’s eco-demonstration home, the Campus Center for Appropriate Technology, such as green building or homesteading.

Students can get involved with the Dendroecology Lab, where scientists are researching how climate change is affecting tree growth.

The opportunities for service learning, internships, and networking around sustainability and climate justice are abundant.

Students choose an area of application and take approved courses in a related discipline. This provides students a context to which they will apply their data science skills.

Students will have the opportunity to analyze real case studies of ethics in data science related to privacy issues and the biases that are often inherently built into data.

Courses are designed to help students create a portfolio of work they can show potential employers after graduation.

Humboldt sits on the North Coast, a unique and pristine stretch of coastal California where you can find marine ecosystems not easily found elsewhere in the state.

The program is grounded heavily in field-based learning. As a student, you’ll collect living marine organisms from aboard the Coral Sea, our 90-foot ocean-going research vessel, and analyze them back at Humboldt’s Marine Lab near campus.

Undergraduate students have access to facilities and conduct research directly with faculty—experiences normally reserved for graduate students.

The North Coast provides a unique learning lab for students—connecting their education to practical experiences that can’t be found elsewhere including client-based projects, unique field trips, and partnerships with community and tribal partners.

Mechanical engineering means hands-on learning—our students learn how to build electric vehicles, complex machines, and robots, among other projects.

Humboldt has long had a focus on environment and sustainability, and these topics are infused in every part of our program.

The Renewable Energy Student Union is a campus club that has done hands-on energy projects together since 2004. One project is operating a solar radiation monitoring station on the library roof that is part of a national network.

Students have been involved with the research related to wind energy, including internships with Native American tribes, the Redwood Coast Energy Authority, the Schatz Energy Research Center, and more.

Freshman are automatically enrolled in Baduwa’t to Bay, a Place-Based Learning Communities at Humboldt. This year-long program focuses on engineering design within the Baduwa’t (Mad River) Watershed and supports success.

The North Coast provides a unique learning lab for students—connecting their education to practical experiences that can’t be found elsewhere.

Use what you know out in the field, undertaking important research topics that interest you - like global warming, deforestation, ethnic conflict, urban planning and much more - in places that inspire you.

We strive for societal and economic improvement, demonstrated in our personal passions and the professions that we pursue.