2018 NSU Fact Book

N SU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) offers both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 20 majors, as well as 30 minors; six Master of Science degrees, three Master of Arts degrees, one Master of Human Services, three Ph.D.s, and one professional doctorate across its eight academic departments. As an inclusive learning community, CAHSS is committed to furthering collaborative opportunities for cross- disciplinary learning, research, and practice. In the course of addressing emergent challenges and complex social issues, we are building a creative bridge across theory, research, and practice drawn from different social sciences, arts, humanities, and helping professions. CAHSS challenges and engages students through inclusive excellence and academic innovation in teaching and learning, research, scholarship, and community outreach. The College’s innovative and groundbreaking programs invite students to explore the connections between academic theory, current research, and real-world practices. Internships, practicums, study abroad experiences, and service learning opportunities allow students to enhance their learning through experiential discovery. To enable mid-career, working adult students to complete their undergraduate and graduate studies, CAHSS also delivers evening, off-campus, online, and hybrid classes. The eight academic departments that make up CAHSS are: the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies, Department of Family Therapy, Department of History and Political Science, Department of Justice and Human Services, Department of Literature and Modern Languages, Department of Multidisciplinary Studies, Department of Performing and Visual Arts, and the Department of Writing and Communication. CAHSS offers varieties of experiential learning opportunities and include community-based internships, clinical practicums, global practicums, performance practicums, and faculty-led travel studies. CAHSS is also home to the Performing and Visual Arts Series, the Family Therapy Clinic, the Center for Applied Research on Substance Use and Health Disparities, the Writing Center, scholarly publications— Peace and Conflict Studies , The Qualitative Report , and Digressions (a student-run literary magazine), and the Campus Diversity Dialogs, taking pride in NSU’s status as a majority-minority university. The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences celebrates student excellence through its membership in Alpha Kappa Delta, the international sociology honor society; Alpha Phi Sigma, the national criminal justice honor society; Delta Kappa Omicron, the international marriage and family therapy honor society; Lambda Epsilon Pi, the national honor society for paralegal/legal assistant studies; Lambda Pi Eta, the honor society of the National Communication Association; Pi Alpha Delta, the international law fraternity; Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society; and Tau Upsilon Alpha, the national honor society for human services. The Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) offers Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in two delivery formats— residentially and through distance education—and employs an optimal combination of hybrid learning models so that mid-career adults do not have to relocate for their graduate studies. The M.S. degree program is designed for students to apply their study to a variety of practicing fields. The doctoral program offers students opportunities to become informed scholars, practitioners, and researchers whose academic and practical work will add to and change the field. The department takes a holistic, learner-centered approach to encouraging students and professionals to define and shape their intellectual and practice paths in a creative and rigorous fashion. DCRS accepts credits from the J.D. program in the Shepard Broad College of Law and applies them towards the M.S. or Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution Studies. Students must complete both programs to obtain the dual credits. Students must seek admission independently to both the DCRS and J.D. programs. Finally, DCRS offers a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology that examines the interactive dynamics of social institutions, organizations, and everyday life. 46 College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences