Master of Arts in Humanities (HUMA)

About This Program

Achieve “the Good Life” ─ as you envision it ─ through critical thinking!

This mind-expanding, graduate-degree program is for college graduates of any age, area of expertise, or stage in their careers who want to become more innovative as problem-solvers and leaders in their communities and workplaces.

Designed especially for those with wide-ranging interests (e.g., business, education, art and lifelong learning), CSUN’s online Humanities program is an excellent choice for those who want to make their lives as meaningful as possible while keeping their options for further exploration and professional development open. This 20-month, fully online program offers a course of study that emphasizes critical thinking, discussion and reflection. Through these processes, participants discover how to achieve more holistic, effective and fulfilling lives in any profession or area of interest. ...

This 20-month, fully online program offers a course of study that emphasizes critical thinking, discussion and reflection. Through these processes, participants discover how to achieve more holistic, effective and fulfilling lives in any profession or area of interest.

The program achieves this outcome with a stimulating curriculum that focuses on humankind’s most important questions, such as:

What constitutes “the good life”?
How meaningful are cultural differences?
What is a just society?
What is fair treatment?
How can major challenges be met most effectively?

Programs Highlights

In this program, participants interact online while learning to:

think more logically,
communicate clearly and effectively,
analyze and synthesize problems, and
respond appropriately to challenges of any kind.

The program’s academic content synthesizes the best of humanity’s collective wisdom from a wide range of fields, including history, philosophy, ethics, law and religion.

Its online format supports an unusually high level of shared honesty, which results in stimulating discussions of assigned topics. This format also gives students time to reflect on course content and shape their insights before sharing them with fellow learners for feedback and further inspiration.

Master of Humanities Program at CSUN

In today’s constantly evolving work environments, employers are increasingly seeking employees who are flexible enough to apply a broad set of conceptual skills in ways that can meet the unique ─ and ever-changing ─ needs of their organizations. Moreover, because most of today’s working adults will switch careers during their lives, CSUN’s online Master of Arts in Humanities program is crafted to enable students to develop habits of mind that will facilitate lifelong intellectual exploration, agility and adaptability.

What do Humanities graduates do?

This accelerated 20-month program will be fully online, providing midcareer adults with significant flexibility for completing coursework at times and in places that fit their own weekly schedules. All CSUN online programs are crafted by the same distinguished faculty and leading practitioners as CSUN's on-campus programs. CSUN's online programs are held to the same high standards of academic excellence and student achievement. Every online program is taught by CSUN full- and part-time faculty, whose digital engagement with online students is qualitatively equivalent to their engagement with students on campus.

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Xochitl Alvizo

Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Religious Studies

Aimee Carrillo Rowe

Ph.D., MFA

Professor, Department of Communication Studies

Ranita Chatterjee

Ph.D.

Professor, Department of English

James Craine

Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, CSUN

Ronald A. Davidson

Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies

Tomo Hattori

Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Asian American Studies, College of Humanities, CSUN

Krystal Howard

Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Liberal Studies Program, College of Humanities, CSUN

Edward L. Jackiewicz

Ph.D

Professor and Chair, Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, CSUN

Sheena Malhotra

Ph.D.

Professor, Gender and Women’s Studies, Director, Queer Studies, Academic Lead, M.A. Humanities, CSUN

Weimin Sun

Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Philosophy, CSUN

Claire White

Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Religious Studies, CSUN

Career Opportunities

Unlock a world of career possibilities with our comprehensive support system. From internships to networking events, we empower students to thrive in their professional journeys and achieve their aspirations.

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Student Resources

Students Success stories

Studying different cultures and norms and about the mind about the soul about the sacred, one actually changes. I think I have become a more positive person in my life.

Michael Cieplik HUMA

The professor's here in this cohort definitely have a passion for what they're teaching. They're very skilled in their subject area.

Daisy Miles HUMA

In each class you're with the same people – you can't help, but create a bond with one another.

PJ Gaynard HUMA

The cohort format was wonderful. It was a perfect environment for learning interacting with other students in bouncing ideas off of each other and the professor.

Armand LeMoyne HUMA