Creative foundations for professional success
Welcome to the College of Arts and Letters (CAL), NAU’s home for humanities and the performing and fine arts. Today’s professional world calls for dynamic communicators with creative aptitudes, and career paths after CAL are limited only by your drive to leverage your unique skills.
CAL graduates go on to thriving careers in entrepreneurship, law, education, and many other fields (including, of course, the arts). With 65+ programs to choose from—we offer majors, minors, certificates, and emphasis areas for undergraduates and doctoral, master’s, and certificate options for graduate students—you’ll hone your self-expression and prepare for a fulfilling future.
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We work closely with employers in every industry to ensure that our graduates leave NAU ready for the professional world. CAL students develop highly sought-after transferable skills like communication, critical thinking, leadership, equity and inclusion, technological literacy, teamwork, and organization—attributes that help them land positions suited to their personal, professional, and financial goals after graduation.