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    40 years ago, we founded an undergraduate program centered on student leadership, radical pedagogies, and public service. Today, these core values remain our north star.

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  • If you can dream it, you can achieve it

    We offer students the freedom to tailor their education to their own intellectual interests and professional goals.

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  • What is CHID?

    CHID is a one-of-a-kind program where students enjoy the freedom of an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree within the context of a renowned research university.

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  • Transformational Travel

    Through engagement with local scholars, artists, political leaders, activists, and community members, our study abroad programs prepare students to engage with an increasingly globalized world.

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  • Question. Critique. Create.

    Our students ask questions that matter, think critically about education, and creatively express their understanding within a community of learners.

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Featured Course

CHID 480 B: "Power/Language: Philosophical Grammar for a Binarized World"
Winter 2019

Taught by: Jonathan Rey Lee Description: According to Ludwig Wittgenstein, “a whole mythology is deposited in our language.” Against this mythology,... Learn more
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Study Abroad

Gender, Livelihoods, and Human Rights in Exile

Students may apply 10 credits earned through the program toward degree requirements in Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies.
Quarter Offered: Winter 2020
Application Deadline: May 15, 2019

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News & Events

A portrait of Sol Moravia-Rosenberg next to a cactus
Sol Moravia-Rosenberg (CHID, '11) is back with a new album!
April 11, 2019
Side-by-side portraits of two CHID alums, Camille Elmore-Trummer and Jennifer Moore
Two CHID alums participating in "OMA&D Presents: A Dialogue with Dr. Ralina Joseph"
April 9, 2019
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