College of Humanities and Social Sciences

“CHaSSing your dreams, ChaSSing your future.”

RUTH E. SANCHEZ, PhD

College Dean

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The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS) is a newly established college in the University by virtue of the BOR Resolution No. 50-07, series of 2019. CHaSS was launched in June 2020, which offers Social Sciences and Humanities courses, as well as serves as a foundational college as it offers General Education Courses (GEC). It is the home of the four academic departments- the Departments of Communication and Humanities, Psychology, Social Work, and Sociology. 

The College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHaSS) comprises three (3) undergraduate programs and two (2) graduate programs namely; Bachelor of Science in Psychology (BSPsych), Bachelor of Science in Social Work (BSSW), Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (ABSocio), and Master of Arts in Guidance and Counseling (MAGC). Additional Programs will be offered, namely BS in Development Communication, Bachelor of Arts in English Language (BAEL), MS/MA in Psychology, and MS in Social Work.

CHaSS seeks to create life-long learners who think critically, feel deeply, communicate effectively, and act responsibly in our increasingly multicultural and diverse society with the guidance of this faculty lineup.

College Goals and mandates:

  1. Provide knowledge and skills that promote an interdisciplinary understanding of human society and natural world;
  2. Cultivate academic excellence, collaboration, innovative active, inquiry methods, that engage, motivate and inspire students to think critically, feel deeply, communicate effectively and act responsibly to meet the challenges of an increasingly complex, technological, diverse world;
  3. Engage students with relevant research and extension activities that will enable them to contribute to the developmental efforts of the region and the country as whole; and
  4. Produce students who are better citizens in a multicultural world through their knowledge of cultural differences and of the history of fundamental cultural changes, imbued with good moral and ethical values.

COLLEGE ACHIEVEMENTS

AWARD

YEAR

Top Performing University for Licensure Examination for Social Work

2021-2023

Top 5 Performing University for Licensure Examination for Psychometricians

2023

Certificate of Program Compliance (COPC) for: 

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

Bachelor of Science in Psychology

Bachelor of Science in Social Work

 

2021

2021

2021

Level 3 for AACCUP Program Accreditation for the Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

2021

Level 1 for AACCUP Program Accreditation for Bachelor of Science in Social Work and Bachelor of Science Psychology

On-going

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