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Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities

Tim Caron, Ph.D.

North Library, 5th Floor; Room 5090

I spend a lot of time talking to prospective students and their families about our campus and our college, and I always say the same thing…what makes our college such a remarkable place to work, study, and create is that we make meaning out of the world around us. In both our Arts programs and in our Humanities programs, our world-class faculty cultivate knowledge, skills, dispositions, and habits of mind in our students that will help them to promote inclusion and social justice in our 21st century world

In our University Art Gallery, in our concert hall, on our theatre stage, and in countless digital spaces, our students and faculty create meaning and search for what is just, true, equitable, and beautiful. Similarly, the students and faculty in our Humanities programs ask penetrating questions about justice, truth, beauty, and the good. The pursuit of these questions and our steadfast commitment to these values will ensure that our future is more equitable and inclusive than our present. Our graduates use their creativity and critical inquiry skills to address the challenges of 21st century life. What we are doing in the College of Arts and Humanities gives me hope for the future

It is my hope that you will study with us, make art with us, perform with us, write with us…that you will pursue your creativity and your intellectual curiosity in our courses and at our events and thereby find a bit more meaning in your own life and in the world around you.

Associate Dean of the College of Arts & Humanities

Timothy Chin

North Library, 5th Floor; Room 5090

I bring to my role as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities twenty plus years of experience as a faculty member in the CSUDH Department of English, including five and a half years as Chair. Although trained as a literary scholar, with expertise in African American, Caribbean, and American literatures, I have broad interest in and appreciation for the artistic and humanistic disciplines encompassed by the College. I believe strongly in the power of artistic expression in all of its forms—written, visual, musical, theater and dance, the digital arts—to enlarge our perception, stir our souls, and shape our world. I believe equally strongly in the ability of the Humanities—the analytical precision and ethical attentiveness enabled by History, Philosophy, Literary and Language Studies, Ethnic and Gender Studies, Communications, Interdisciplinary Studies, Labor and Peace Studies—to not only help us understand the world we live in, but also to make it a better place.

My goals as Associate Dean are to advocate for the values and mission of the College, serve the students who have chosen to make their academic home in our various departments and programs, and forge productive working relationships with fellow administrators and staff. My main areas of responsibility include student petitions, student registration and enrollment issues, college-level advising, facilities and space issues, New Student Orientation, supporting key initiatives of the Dean’s Office, and serving as liaison between the College and various administrative units within the University.