Montclair State University

You can be part of the exceptional CHSS experience for your whole MSU education, for a few required courses — or for many possible combinations between the two.

However much time you spend in Dickson Hall, you will benefit from the teaching of our first-rate faculty. CHSS’ internationally renowned professors — not teaching assistants — conduct all their own classes. Many also select students to work with them in cutting-edge research projects.

Areas of study

Undergraduates can choose from among 18 majors, 32 minors and 20 professional certificate programs. Inter-disciplinary programs such as Women’s Studies include classes in several departments; some, like Film Studies, also include classes in other colleges.

Click here to learn about CHSS’ 11 graduate study areas.

Concentrations within each major add even more depth to the CHSS experience. The student who majors in Justice Studies, for example, can become a certified paralegal. French and Spanish majors can study civilization as well as their chosen language, and can become certified translators or interpreters.

Click on any of the links below to learn more about the rich academic experience CHSS has to offer.

Where this can take you

A CHSS education launches students onto many, varied paths both professionally and in further study. Our English majors have become teachers, paralegals, admissions counselors — even gone to work at MTV. Psychology graduates are working as nurses, social workers, speech therapists — and in marketing and the New York State Supreme Court. Naturally, some Political Science and History majors go on to law school — while others have gone into laboratory work or marketing.

As an MSU undergraduate, you must choose a major by the end of your sophomore year. Each major is hosted by one (or two, in the case of some double-majors) of the University’s colleges, where most of your coursework will take place.

Whatever department and college you major in, you will come to CHSS for the foreign-language and writing components of MSU’s General Education requirements, which all students need to graduate.