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.

Upcoming Events

Call for Student Paper Submissions: Fourth CDSC Social Justice Student Conference

Friday, March 5, 2021 - 11:00pm

Students: Please submit an abstract that provides a short summary (no longer than 200 words) of the content of the presentation/project/creative work. Abstract Submission Deadline: March 5th, 2021 Submit here: https://tinyurl.com/y2r6yut5

The conference features keynote addresses by graphic novel artist Thi Bui and documentary filmmaker Ciara Lacy

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 9:30am

The Eighth Annual Maurice Amado Foundation Lecture in Jewish Ethics

In stories about Noah, his ark, the individuals who survive the flood, and those left behind, Jewish tradition reckons with questions of human hubris and survival. We will use these ancient Jewish texts along with testimony from contemporary disability communities to grapple with climate change and the question of whose lives we deem worth saving. Read more

Keith Morton Memorial Lecture with Rudy Ortega, Jr

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 11:00am to 12:30pm

Rudy Ortega, Jr., Tribal President of the Fernandeño Tatavíam Band of Mission Indians

Please join the Anthropology Department for our Annual Keith Morton Memorial Lecture with Special Guest: Rudy Ortega, Jr., Tribal President of the Fernandeño Tatavíam Band of Mission Indians. His lecture will address the history language and culture of the Fernandeño Tatavíam Band of Mission Indians, the first people of the San Fernando Valley. Get more information and RSVP for this event.

Tsuru for Solidarity and Detention Watch Network: Organizing Across Generations and Across Communities

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Civil Discourse and Social Change is hosting an upcoming webinar on activist strategies and efforts to organize against migrant detentions and deportations. Speakers include members of Tsuru for Solidarity, JAs for Justice, and the Detention Watch Network. The webinar addresses the role of memory in generating intergenerational and cross-racial solidarities against forced removal, incarceration and civil liberties violations. Read more

An Alphabet of Eras That Define 2021: From the KKK, to Malcolm X, to LGBTQ, to CSUN – Barry Dank’s Story

Thursday, March 25, 2021 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm

Join us for an interactive conversation with Dr. Barry Dank, retired professor of sociology, as he shares a retrospective of his life growing up Jewish in the segregated South to meeting Malcom X, to being the first professor to offer classes on human sexuality, to his connections to CSUN and his views on the contemporary American landscape. Get more information and RSVP for this event.

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Asian American Studies Professor Tracy Lachica Buenavista Honored with Community Engagement and Scholar Activism Award

June 24, 2020

For her contributions to the community, CSUN Asian American Studies professor Tracy Lachica Buenavista recently received the Community Engagement and Scholar Activism Award at the 10th annual UC Davis Equity Summit. Read more

2020 College of Humanities Dean’s Scholar Danielle Snali

May 12, 2020

Danielle Snali is the 2020 College of Humanities Dean’s Scholar. She is a Religious Studies major, with a Gender and Women’s Studies and History minor, and has accumulated a 3.98 GPA in her studies at CSUN. Danielle is an HSI Pathways/Mellon Student Fellow in the competitive Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) Pathways to the Professoriate Program. Her research project for Read more

Heidi Schumacher Receives Don Dorsey Excellence in Mentoring Award

January 8, 2020

Heidi Schumacher, staff coordinator for the HSI Pathways program and a faculty member in GWS and English, is one of the 2019 recipients of the prestigious Don Dorsey Excellence in Mentoring awards. Read more

Dr. Svetlana V. Tyutina (MCLL) elected Chair of the MLA DAOC

October 31, 2019

Dr. Svetlana V. Tyutina (MCLL) has been elected as the Chair of the MLA Delegate Assembly Organizing Committee (January 2020-January 2021). Delegate Assembly is the legislative body of the Modern Language Association, the largest organization in the field of languages and literatures in North America. More information about the DAOC charge

Models for Thinking: An Example of Why Data Sciences Increasingly Need the Humanities

September 17, 2019

Dr. Mauro Carassai, from the English Department and the Liberal Studies Program, explores the importance of the humanities to the data sciences.

In fields involved with knowledge production, unsupervised machine-learning algorithms are becoming the standard. These algorithms allow us to statistically analyze data sets that exceed traditional analytic capabilities. Why Data Sciences Increasingly Need the Humanities continues

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