College of Arts and Humanities

About the College

Honora Chapman, Dean
Peters Business Bldg. 334
2380 E. Keats MS/MB99
Fresno CA 93740-8024
Phone: 559.278.3056
cah.fresnostate.edu/

The College of Arts and Humanities provides a diverse student population with the communication skills, humanistic values and cultural awareness that form the foundation of scholarship. The college offers intellectual and artistic programs that engage students and faculty and the community in collaboration, dialog and discovery. These programs help preserve, illuminate and nourish the arts and humanities for the campus and for the wider community. The study of the arts and humanities provides a foundation in vision, depth, and discernment for all areas of knowledge. From the “Know thyself” of philosophy to the “Get it right” of journalism, the arts and humanities illuminate everything from self to society.

Art, music, dance, creative writing, and theatre offer opportunities to participate in and absorb the full range of creative and interpretive experience. English and communication, letters and language, sum up the best that has been thought and said. Languages and linguistics do all of that and more. Besides providing culture, in the Germanic sense of the term, knowledge of modern languages offers insights into whole new worlds of people. Linguistics offers the same opportunity through the English language, but from the opposite end of the telescope.

Journalism is best equipped to report on, comment on, and analyze the wisdom and folly of today. Philosophy deals with the wisdom of the ages - a heavy phrase for a discipline that teaches us how remarkable and timelessly “modern” the human mind has always been, from apple to Apple.

Given the broad spectrum of human concerns in the arts and humanities, it should come as no surprise that the classical studies and the humanities interdisciplinary minors are also housed in the college.

Honors Program

Students with a 3.5 cumulative GPA in the last 60 units are eligible to apply. Application for the Honors Program includes the following: a current copy of transcript, a written personal statement, a substantial sample of the student’s writing and/or creative work, and a letter of recommendation/nomination from a Fresno State faculty member willing to serve as mentor/adviser to the student for the honors thesis/project. The student must successfully complete and earn a grade of A in the Arts and Humanities Honors Seminar (AH 100H ) to continue in the program.

Applications are accepted in September for the following spring semester.

Advising

The Arts and Humanities Advising Center is located in Speech Arts, Room 156. Arts and Humanities students are encouraged to have advising sessions to assist in evaluations and graduation requirements.

Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary Degrees and Programs