Humanities Degrees for the 21st Century
What does it mean to be human?
Explore our present, past – and future – through literature, the social sciences, philosophy, and history. Look at the variety of human cultures, experiences, and beliefs from new perspectives. There are so many ways of seeing the world and trying to understand how it works!
Creative disruption isn’t just for the tech world.
Find and challenge hidden assumptions, both your own and others. Our understanding of the world isn’t just facts and dates. It depends on where we stand and how we interpret what we see and know.
Our Students say it Best…
Terra Breeden
Major: English
Class of 2016
My journey to Sierra Nevada College began on a three-month trip to explore Indonesia's bleached islands, remote villages, and mystic jungles. By the end of the trip I was addicted to travel, and I needed an education to turn my love into a career. I thought I would teach English and got interested in journalism. Then I took Travel and Adventure Writing and my love for travel, photography, and writing - all the pieces of my life - fit together into my dream career. . . . Read More
Maggie Burns
Major: Psychology
Class of 2014
One of my jobs as the Psychology Department intern at SNC was to help with student advising, which got me interested in college prep and planning for high school students. Now I'm getting my MA in Counseling with an emphasis in school counseling, and a PPS (Pupil Personnel Services) credential for counseling K - 12. . . . Read More
Nicole Ross
Major: English, Psychology, Teacher Education
Class of 2018
I loved reading with my mom when I was young, and even now that I'm older, I am just as excited to read and share stories. I decided to turn my passion for reading into a teaching career after my eighth grade teacher, Mrs. Wolff, inspired me. Now that I am at SNC, I have been able to volunteer and teach in classrooms all over Incline. I feel that my experiences here at SNC have allowed me to grow in nearly every aspect of my life. . . . Read More
Get the ultimate job training program.
Learn to think both analytically and creatively – and to communicate your ideas with clarity and style.
Literacy, analytical thinking, and persuasive communication are skills you’ll depend on wherever your future leads. They’re skills that can’t be automated, and that help you to thrive through change. They’re the “soft skills” that enable you to be effective wherever people can benefit from thinking more creatively and understanding each other better.
Humanities degrees across disciplines.
In addition to majors in English, Creative Writing, Psychology, and Humanities, Sierra Nevada College offers interdisciplinary humanities majors in Journalism and Media, Psychology with Art or Music, and International Studies.
A Student’s Passion for Writing Grows at SNC
Inspiration Everywhere
Meet renowned authors at the Writers in the Woods, a monthly campus series of intimate readings and workshops which are open to everyone. Conduct original research in psychology and present your results at a national research conference.
Hear some of the major thinkers and doers of our time speak on campus at the Siebens-Binz Tahoe Forum – the most recent were Apple co-founder Steve “Woz” Wozniak and author Isabel Allende. Report and write for the college newspaper The Eagle’s Eye, or edit for SNC Tahoe’s nationally distributed literary journal the Sierra Nevada Review.
Get your humanities degree immersed in the natural beauty of Lake Tahoe and the mountains, the support of faculty who know your name and care about your education, and fellow students who are as excited by possibility as you are.
