CHASS prides itself on its faculty and staff commitment to graduate education and research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. For the 2002-2003 academic year, CHASS granted 42 Ph.D.’s, 74 Masters, and 1 MFA totaling 117 graduate conferred degrees. In addition, significant extramural fellowships were received by several graduate students housed in the Sociology and Psychology departments.

The Sociology department graduate program is designed to prepare scholars for teaching and research in the discipline of sociology. The department offers both an M.A. degree and Ph.D. degree. Graduate students Jessie Diaz received a three year American Sociological Fellowship and Vincent Giedraitis received a one year J. William Fulbright Fellowship.

The Psychology department focuses on the doctoral research degree and houses approximately sixty graduate students. Within the department, a number of fellowships were received. Awarded by the UC Office of the Preseident, Mitchiko Otsuki received a two year grant from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. Susan Perez received a one year Ford Dissertation Fellowship. Incoming graduate student, Edmundo Kronmuller, received a two-year Fullbright Fellowship.