2019 NSU Fact book

60 NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY NSU’s College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (CAHSS) oŒers both Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees in 28 majors, as well as 30 minors; 4 Master of Science degrees; 2 Master of Arts degrees; 2 Ph.D.s; and 1 professional doctorate across its seven 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 diŒerent 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 com- plete their undergraduate and graduate studies, CAHSS also delivers evening, oŒ-campus, online, and hybrid classes. The academic departments that make up CAHSS are the Department of Conflict Resolution Studies, Department of Family Therapy, Department of History and Political Science, Depart- ment of Literature and Modern Languages, Depart- ment of Multidisciplinary Studies, Department of Performing and Visual Arts, and the Department of Writing and Communication. CAHSS oŒers varieties of experiential learning opportunities, such as 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 Writing Studio; and scholarly publications, such as Peace and Conflict Studies , The Qualitative Report , and Digressions (a student-run literary magazine), as well as the Campus Diversity Dialogs, taking pride in NSU’s status as a majority-minority university. The College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences also celebrates student excellence through its mem- bership in Alpha Kappa Delta, the international sociology honor society; Delta Kappa Omicron, the international marriage and family therapy honor society; Lambda Pi Eta, the honor society of the National Communication Association; Pi Alpha Delta, the international law fraternity; Pi Sigma Alpha, the national political science honor society; and Sigma Tau Delta, the international English honor society. The Department of Conflict Resolution Studies (DCRS) oŒers 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 oŒers 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 toward the M.S. or Ph.D. in Conflict Resolution Studies. Students must complete both programs to obtain the dual credits. Students must seek admission indepen- dently to both the DCRS and J.D. programs. Finally, DCRS oŒers a Bachelor of Science degree in sociology that examines the interactive dynamics of social institutions, organizations, and everyday life. The Department of Family Therapy oŒers doctoral and master’s degree programs. The M.S. program is committed to clinical excellence. It has full College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Colleges and Academic Centers