College of Humanities
Welcome to Humanities
As education becomes ever more focused on professional degrees and vocational training, employers increasingly report that what they seek is not necessarily more specialized degrees but rather people who can think, who can synthesize, who can analyze, and who can apply a broad base of thought to a wide variety of areas. The College of Humanities teaches students to read, write and think. Our graduates are prepared for a 21st-century workforce that advances those who have the power not just to achieve and innovate but to communicate their ideas to an audience beyond their applied field.
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Captioning Videos Used in Instruction
The University has launched a new website: www.csun.edu/captioning. The purpose of the site is to provide unified content for faculty and students regarding captioning. As a reminder, we are required to caption videos used in instruction. The website provides useful information on captioning options for both content creators and consumers.
Featured News
We're Living LGBT History. Will We Remember It?
July 11, 2016
Our stories of survival are not taught in schools, so it's up to us to keep them alive, writes author and English professor Martin Pousson. Read more
Religious Studies professor Amanda Baugh named NEH Summer Scholar
April 13, 2016
Amanda Baugh has been selected as an NEH Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend one of 23 seminars and institutes supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Each summer, the NEH supports enrichment opportunities at colleges, universities, and cultural institutions so that faculty can work in collaboration and study with experts in their fields of interest. Read more
Cosmic Fractures: Beatriz Cortez's Simultaneous Realities
March 24, 2016
In artist Beatriz Cortez's installations, cracks and crevices are a consistent clue to the fractured existence she has experienced in her life. Cortez's work is greatly impacted by her migration from El Salvador to the United States and the civil war she endured, escaped, and left behind. “All of my friends were being murdered. There was no way I could stay,” Cortez tells me as we walk through her Los Angeles area studio, which contains many Read more
Professor Rudy Acuña Accepts John Hope Franklin Award at ACE
March 22, 2016
Last night, Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña, the founder of the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and a professor emeritus at California State University, Northridge, accepted Diverse’s 2016 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award at the 98th American Council on Education Annual Meeting. Read more
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College of the Humanities
California State University, Northridge
18111 Nordhoff Street
Northridge, CA 91330-8252
Mail Drop: 8252
Phone: 818-677-3301
Fax: 818-677-4902
Room: Sierra Hall 461 (roof)
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