CHASS

Our Facilities: Where Learning Happens

The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences facilities are primarily located on the west side of the main campus. The college's main offices are centrally located in the Humanities & Social Sciences Building, along with several departmental offices in those disciplines. The beautiful Arts Building and Interdisciplinary Building are a short walk to the north, with the University Theatre just to the south.

CHASS reach extends beyond campus to the ARTSblock complex in downtown Riverside.

To learn more about CHASS facility, select the appropriate link below.

Three Spaces / One Place

The UCR ARTSblock is composed of the UCR/California Museum of Photography, the Sweeney Art Gallery and, coming in 2009, the Culver Center for the Arts. The three venues reside side-by-side on the pedestrian mall in the heart of downtown Riverside.

Learn more about what is going on now at ARTSblock.

• The Jack and Marilyn Sweeney Art Gallery develops and presents exhibitions of contemporary and historic works of art each year. It also provides interpretation, preservation, and collection of works of art; produces publications, symposia, lectures, and other events; serves as a laboratory for training future museum and other art professionals; and hosts the annual senior thesis exhibition for students in the Department of Art.
• The UCR/California Museum of Photography (UCR/CMP) is a major photography exhibition and research center. It holds the largest photographic archives of its kind west of the Mississippi, including:
  • 6,500 Ansel Adams negatives
  • the Keystone-Mast stereoscopic collection
  • the Bingham camera collection
  UCR/CMP also offers numerous exhibitions and film screenings each year, in addition to serving as a unique resource of historic photographs and photographic equipment.
• The Barbara & Art Culver Center of the Arts is part of UC Riverside's continuing dedication to the advancement of culture and arts in the local and campus community. The project intends to renovate the Rouse Building, located in the Mission Inn Historic District in Downtown Riverside, include facilitate exhibition and retail space, a film and video screening room, graduate and faculty offices, living accommodations and work space for visiting artists, and a 500-seat Downtown Performance Hall.



CHASS Facilities

The College's on-campus facilities provide venues for an outstanding range of educational opportunities.

• Built in 2001, the Arts Building/Facilities are home to UCR's growing visual and performing arts programs. The Arts Building houses the departments of
  • Dance
  • Music
  • History of Art
  • Art
  In addition, the facility includes dance studios, music rehearsal and screening rooms, performance labs, a photographic and film shooting studio, painting and sculpture studios, theatre costume shop, Multimedia Computer Laboratory, an arts library, the Music Library, and the Visual Resources Collection. Contact Arts Facilities Administration for facility reservation and/or maintenance
• The CHASS Interdisciplinary Building is located between the Arts and PE buildings. It is home to six departments and nine interdisciplinary programs. The following departments and interdisciplinary programs can be found here.
  
  
  Departments:

  • Theatre
  • Women's Studies
  • Creative Writing
  • Ethnic Studies
  • Media and Cultural Studies
  • Religious Studies
  Interdisciplinary Programs

  • Global Studies
  • Labor Studies
  • Southeast Asia: Texts, Rituals, in Performance (SEATRiP)
  • Public Policy
  • Asian Studies
  • Liberal Studies
  • Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Latin American Studies
  • Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
• The College Building South houses the Robert Presley Center for Crime and Justice Studies and Institute for Research on World Systems.
• The Highlander Research Complex is home to the:
  • Center for Bibliographical Studies and Research
  • Center for Ideas and Society
  • Inland Area Writing Project
• Five academic departments of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences reside in the Humanities and Social Sciences Building. Facilities include the HMNSS 1500 Conference Room, the University Writing Program, and the Language Instruction Lab. The Dean's Office and the Student Academic Affairs office are both located in this building and it it is home to the Departments of:
  • Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
  • English
  • Hispanic Studies
  • History
  • Philosophy
• Olmsted Hall is home to a number of psychology research laboratories and two instructional computer laboratories.
• Completed in 2008, the Psychology Building is the home of the UCR Psychology Department, which includes labs, offices, classrooms and a vivarium.
  
• Sproul Hall, located adjacent to the Humanities and Social Sciences building houses the Economics department. Also residing here is the UCR Statistical Consulting Collaboratory which supports research and faculty in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences; the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences; and Computing and Communications.
• The University Theatre is a 484-seat proscenium arch production facility featuring professional-level technical capabilities managed by the Theatre Facility Unit. Each year, it is home to numerous theatre, dance, and music performances, along with other events for the campus and community.
• Watkins Hall is home to the Anthropology, Political Science, Sociology departments. Located there are the Archaeology/Biological Anthropology Lab and a computer lab which is one of several on campus which features Mac and PC computers, printers and software for student use.