Located in California's premier wine country one hour north of San Francisco, Sonoma State is a small campus with big ideas. With a tradition of promoting intellectual and personal growth, leadership opportunities and technological proficiency, SSU offers its students a friendly, safe and informal atmosphere on a beautiful campus setting. Currently, campus housing accommodates students in both apartment and residential suite style facilities.

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The culture and literary traditions of Spain, the growing interest in the politics, culture, and commerce of Latin America, the proximity of Mexico, and the presence of a large Spanish-speaking population in California and the University’s service area all contribute to the shaping of the curriculum of the Spanish program and provide excellent reasons for the study of Spanish.

On-Campus

BA in Spanish

Since 1971, the American Multicultural Studies Department (AMCS) has taken an interdisciplinary and comparative approach to teaching students about the importance of race and ethnicity to people living in the United States.

Bachelor of Arts in American Multicultural Studies

Anthropology is the broadest and most holistic of all the human sciences. Anthropologists study how human beings have come to be as they are. Such as how we have become a physically distinct species, why we communicate through language, how we have adapted to every habitat on earth, and living an amazing variety of lives.

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology

The Applied Arts curriculum provides practical and theoretical training in at least three of the following areas: art, English (with an emphasis on creative writing), music, and theatre arts (drama and/ or dance). The minor is intended for students interested in acquiring a broad background in the arts, but it is particularly appropriate for liberal studies majors who intend to complete the Multiple Subject Credential Program.

Bachelor of Arts in Applied Arts

Applied Statistics is for students interested in pursuing other disciplines in the field of Statistics such as Economics, Psychology and Biology. The curriculum is focused for students pursuing a B.A.

Bachelor of Arts in Applied Statistics

The Art History program teaches students to think critically about art and visual culture. In addition to preparing them for careers in the museum and gallery world as well as graduate work in Art History or related fields in humanities, the program offers training in research, writing and critical thinking that will serve them in many professions.

Bachelor of Arts in Art History

The Studio Art curriculum is designed for students to develop the ability to create, analyze, interpret, and evaluate art. Students learn to express their thoughts, feelings, and values in a variety of visual forms.

Bachelor of Arts in Art Studio

Astronomy, offered as a minor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, is the study of the planets, stars, and galaxies in the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere. The fields of astronomy and astrophysics with the application of the Principles of Physics to astronomical observations, today deal with essential questions, such as the origin and nature of the “Big Bang;” the subsequent creation of matter and the chemical elements.

Bachelor of Arts in Astronomy

The certificate in Audio and Recording Production is open to the local community and inclined matriculated students interested in music recording and production in a studio setting. The program makes use of SSU's Wolford Recording Studio in Ives Hall, Room 32, which is newly renovated and updated with high level, state of the art, 24 channel pro-tools, mac based equipment, and integrated with red-net ability to record from the Green Music Center's Weill and Schroeder Halls.

Bachelor of Arts in Audio and Recording Production

The Department of Business Administration offers a wide selection of concentrations designed to meet a variety of career objectives. These career objectives include, but are not limited to, management-level accounting positions in business, government, or public accounting; financial management, financial analysis and planning, investment banking, and insurance; general management, personnel, labor relations, public relations, wage and salary administration, training.

Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration

The Department of Chicano and Latino Studies (CALS) offers students an interdisciplinary curriculum that centers on the experiences of Chicanos and Latinos in many areas of contemporary American society, including politics, education, literature, the arts, and religion. The focus is on gaining greater insight into the relationship between historical, social, political, and ideological circumstances and Latina/o cultures and identities.

Bachelor of Arts in Chicano and Latino Studies

The Communications major is an innovative, interdisciplinary program that prepares students for careers in the media or for advanced graduate study. Communication Studies coordinates three distinct approaches to the media: practical application, historical study, and critical analysis.

Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies

The Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies major offers a liberal arts curriculum concerned with the changing nature and content of law; the shifting public expectations of criminal justice agencies; the implications of diversity along the lines of race, gender, and class; and the reactions of those agencies to social perceptions and political pressures.

Bachelor of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice Studies

Distance Learning

The master of arts in Cultural Resource Management (CRM) invloves the identification, evaluation, and preservation of cultural resources, as mandated by cultural resources legistlation and guided by scientific standards within the planning process.

Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Resources Management

The Dance B.A. offers dance and movement studies.The program's studies are rooted in anti-racist practices and pedagogical approaches with an emphasis on dance as a universal human experience and cultural activity.

Bachelor of Arts in Dance

The Department of Early Childhood Studies offers a major in Early Childhood Studies, a minor in Early Childhood Studies and a Master of Arts in Education with concentration in Early Childhood Education. Students may also use Early Childhood Education courses to satisfy requirements for the Child Development Permit for teachers of California state-funded preschool and after-school programs.

Bachelor of Arts in Early Childhood Studies

The Department of Economics in the School of Business and Economics at Sonoma State University is committed to excellence in providing students an education that meets the challenges of the future in a wide variety of careers.

Bachelor of Arts in Economics

In the English Major, you will learn how to use language, words, symbols, and ideas to change the world. You will learn about how people have used stories to change their worlds in the past, and about how the art of writing might transform itself in the future.

Bachelor of Arts in English

The purpose of the French major is to enable students to attain an advanced level of competency in speaking, listening, reading, and writing, and to provide them with a comprehensive knowledge of the historic and contemporary culture and institutions of France and the Francophone world.

Bachelor of Arts in French

The German minor program enriches students’ academic and career opportunities by providing them with skills that complement many majors at SSU. German helps students understand themselves as participants in their own culture. It also helps them understand U.S.

Bachelor of Arts in German

The Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies is an interdisciplinary program that prepares students for international or intercultural service through the study of other cultures, world history, political and economic systems, world geography and environment, cross-cultural communication and conflict resolution, and a modern language.

Bachelor of Arts in Global Studies

The study of history involves the study of all human thought and action, ranging from the economic and the political to the psychological and the artistic. Combining the perspectives and methods of the social sciences and the humanities, it seeks to comprehend the problems and challenges faced by individuals and societies in the distant and recent past, nearby and far away. This understanding of the human experience provides the necessary historical perspective to explain the present.  The history major is designed both to provide the basis for a solid liberal arts education and to meet the needs of individual students.

Bachelor of Arts in History

A nationally recognized leader in the movement for reform in higher education, the Hutchins School has maintained its commitment to innovative pedagogy and interdisciplinary inquiry into vital issues of modern concern since its inception in 1969.

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies(Hutchins School)

The fundamental concern of linguistics is with description and explanation of the interrelatedness of thinking and using language. This concern takes many forms: among others, inquiry into the nature of language as speech or signing, as knowledge, and as communication; inquiry into the history of languages and how languages change; inquiry into how language is acquired, and into the nature of language learning and teaching.

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