CHASS prides itself on its commitment to undergraduate
education. The College seeks
to help undergraduate students
develop stronger faculties of criticism, judgment, and
imagination; to better understand the world; to communicate
more clearly; and to consider values. CHASS offers more
than 50 disciplinary and interdisciplinary majors. The
College also can arrange an individually tailored major
for a student who finds that well-defined personal academic
goals can be reached through the resources and interested
faculty at UCR but for which no suitable major is offered.
UCR’s June Commencement ceremonies highlighted CHASS
undergraduate student achievement in obtaining their academic
degree in their respective major. For the 2002-2003 academic
year, CHASS accounts for 52% of UCR’s undergraduate
conferred degrees, totaling 1413 graduates from UCR’s
total conferred degrees of 2789 students. In addition,
Business Administration, which collaboratively works with
CHASS’s Pre-Business program, conferred 700 degrees
consisting of 23% of the total conferred degrees for the
2002-2003 academic year. Including Business Administration,
CHASS total conferred degrees for the 2002-2003 academic
year was 75% of UCR’s total undergraduate population.
CHASS also houses the majority of academic programs and
facilities available for UCR’s undergraduate students.
CHASS undergraduate enrollment for 2001-2002 consisted
of over 64% of UCR’s total enrollment of 12,252
students. The College provides innovative teaching and
student advising by the College’s faculty ensuring
that graduates are prepared for their academic and professional
futures.
Some
students may find they have strong interests in two separate
fields of study in different departments or even different
colleges. These students may choose to have a double major.
Other students may choose to create an individual major
tailored to specific personal interests and academic goals.
Such students can design their unique majors under the
guidance of a faculty sponsor through the Humanities,
Arts, and Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Program.
CHASS and the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management jointly offer an undergraduate major in Business Administration. The major is intended for students who seek a professional education in the functional fields of private sector management and leads to a Bachelor of Science degree.
In addition to disciplinary majors, many departments in the College participate in the Bridge to Teaching Program and the Blended Program of Undergraduate Teacher Preparation, in which prospective elementary teachers can complete the approved subject matter preparation program along with their major while also including early field experience in the schools.