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The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences explores-across a broad array of scholarship and creative activity-the meaning of what it is to be human.
The College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at UCR is unique in bringing the arts, humanities, and social sciences into a single college. Familiarly known as CHASS, the College encompasses twenty academic departments, over ten interdisciplinary programs, at least fifteen research centers and two museums. A motto for the college might be “At Home in the World,” as our students connect everyday with multiple traditions and perspectives both inside and outside of class. CHASS has the most diverse student body at UCR, itself the most diverse campus in the University of California system and one of the most diverse research universities in the country. In addition, CHASS sees its mission as that of providing its students with a superior, internationalized education so that they can engage the 21st century world with a deep knowledge of its history, intellectual heritage and cultural, social, economic and political diversity.
The College has achieved a national and international reputation for excellence. It accounts for fully half of the campus's Guggenheim Fellows, as well as a Grammy Award nominee, the winner of a MacArthur "Genius" Award, and a NASA-commissioned poet. Twenty-nine members of the faculty have been named fellows of the American Association of the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
Working individually and together, the faculty of this college earned a sixth place ranking among
the nation's public research institutions in Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, a designation accorded them by two East Coast researchers, Hugh Davis Graham and Nancy Diamond, who published The Rise of American Research Universities.
In the same rankings, UCR was the top public university in the nation based on faculty productivity and 11th overall, an accomplishment that can be directly tied to the success of the college that accounts for more than half of the undergraduates who make UCR their intellectual home.