The mission of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences is to provide educational programs and services that promote and support excellence in teaching and innovative scholarship in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The college has a collegial and distinguished faculty and staff who offer a variety of undergraduate and graduate programs to a diverse student body. Through effective teaching, active scholarship, and service, the college supports Fayetteville State University to promote the educational, cultural, social, and economic wellbeing of citizens throughout North Carolina, the nation, and the world.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences includes the Departments of Communication, Languages, and Cultures; Criminal Justice; English: Literature, Teaching, Pre-Law, and Creative & Professional Writing; Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Science, Political Science, and History; Performing and Fine Arts; Psychology; Sociology and Interdisciplinary Studies and the School of Social Work. The College of Humanities and Social Sciences offers baccalaureate degrees in areas including the arts, humanities, and social sciences. The college offers a number of undergraduate online degree completion programs in Criminal Justice, English, History, Intelligence Studies, Interdisciplinary Studies, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.
We offer minors in such areas as Pre Law and Paralegal Studies, Teaching English as a Second Language, Creative and Professional Writing (all in the Department of English), as well as the Geospatial Intelligence minor and certificate and the environmentally-focused Sustainability minor (both in the Department of Intelligence Studies, Geospatial Science, Political Science, and History). The Department of Communication, Languages, and Cultures offers minors in Spanish and Chinese. Also, the college offers an eSports minor that provides an interdisciplinary foundation for the development and marketing of gaming software.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences also has a number of graduate programs. We offer master’s degrees in Social Work, Psychology, Sociology, and Criminal Justice. Graduate degrees in Criminal Justice, Psychology, and Sociology can be completed online.
The College of Humanities and Social Sciences works with the Bronco One Stop Shop and the Advising Center to review transcripts for transfer equivalencies and to advise students in undergraduate majors and minors. Students have access to advisors in the major or general advisors from their location in the Charles W. Chestnut Library.
