As a student in the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, you’ll gain an education from a college that is ranked fifth nationally, based on faculty scholarly productivity and doctoral programs, by the Academic Analytics Company.
You’ll be part of Sam Houston State University’s newest college (created in 2004) in the newest (opened in March 2009)—and largest—academic building on campus, the $30 million College of Humanities & Social Sciences building. This beautiful building was created with students like you in mind. Features include:
- 24-hour computer labs with an abundance of computers and televisions
- “Smart” classrooms with state-of-the-art technology—geared toward enhancing the teaching and learning experience
- 150,000 square feet of classroom space, student services areas and faculty and administrative offices—so you have easy access to faculty and administrators
- The 10,000-square-foot, national award-winning Student Advising and Mentoring (SAM) Center
- Professional and Academic Center for Excellence (PACE), created to ensure your faculty are exceptional teachers
The College has nine departments:
- Communication Studies
- English
- Family & Consumer Sciences
- Foreign Languages
- History
- Mass Communication
- Political Science
- Psychology & Philosophy
- Sociology
You’ll learn from faculty, like:
- Paul Ruffin, 2009 Texas Poet Laureate, a Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of English, who has published more than 24 books, 800 poems and numerous essays and reviews, and was named one of the state’s top 10 poets by the Texas Commission on the Arts
- Melissa Morphew, associate professor and well-published poet, whose poems have received such national awards as the Cecil J. Hackney Literary Award, the Randall Jarrell International Poetry Prize and the W.B. Yeats Society Award for Poetry
- John de Castro, behavioral researcher and dean of the College of Humanities & Social Sciences, who has written many articles, including, "A Plan for Eating In the Real World"
- Jim Olson, Regents Professor of History
- Marc Boccaccini, winner of the University Outstanding Research Award
- Sandro Bonanno, Distinguished Professor of Sociology
- Kelly Arena, former CNN Justice Correspondent.
You can be a part of award-winning groups, such as:
- SHSU Debate Team, which competed in 10 International Public Debate Association tournaments, winning three and amassing 70 individual and team trophies before ending the 2009 season with a fourth-in-the-nation finish
