Whether you're an undergraduate looking to lay the foundation for advanced study, or currently in the workforce hoping to move up in your professional career, CAHSS graduate programs prepare students for a range of professional pursuits by equipping them with skills in communication and critical thinking. With four robust graduate programs, choosing CAHSS as the home for your graduate studies is the easiest decision! 

Though the four programs are housed in distinct disciplines, they each emphasize hands-on experience communicating complex concepts to public audiences, advocating for communities in decision-making circles, building more equitable systems, and celebrating the wide diversity of humans and other living beings. CAHSS graduate students, above all else, develop strong, process-oriented, interpersonal skills in communication and writing to solve problems with creative solutions. 

Alumni in CAHSS graduate programs find fulfilling professional careers in nonprofits, tribal and state government, and educational organizations as analysts, community service specialists, environmental consultants, educators, organizers, outreach coordinators, writers, and more. CAHSS graduate programs also lay the intellectual foundation for alumni to go on to PhD programs to become professors and researchers. CAHSS graduate students have the opportunity to explore electives in any of the four programs putting them in the driver’s seat of their own education.

CAHSS M.A. Information Session (click image for slides from February 16, 2024)