2010-2011 Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]
School of Arts and Humanities
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Introduction
The School of Arts and Humanities brings together art and music with English, cultural studies, history, philosophy, applied women’s studies, Africana studies, and archival studies to create interdisciplinary programs and to provide opportunities for greater discourse between students and faculty in these fields. The School aspires to build a community of scholars and artists actively engaged in the pursuit of excellence, training to become tomorrow’s teachers, media experts, artists, musicians, and arts leaders. The School’s interdisciplinary environment is designed to provide the disciplinary depth and cross-disciplinary flexibility to meet the challenges of today’s world.
The Arts at CGU provide students with focused curricula in the disciplines of studio art and music. Offering the MFA degree, the Art Department provides an artists-in-residence atmosphere through which to develop a chosen creative focus in applied art. The Music Department offers an academic program well-grounded in performance that allows students to focus on their respective interests, offering courses of study leading to the degrees of Master of Arts, Doctor of Church Music, Doctor of Musical Arts, and Doctor of Philosophy.
The Humanities is comprised of cultural studies, English, history, philosophy, applied women’s studies, archival studies and a certificate program in Africana studies. Innovative and interdisciplinary in the approach to learning, the humanities programs promote the study of human history, literature, and culture as a means to understanding the problems of today. The School hosts a number of special events throughout the year such as the Bradshaw Seminar, and the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and Kate Tufts Discovery Award Ceremony, which promote our mission to foster transdisciplinary study.
Each humanities program offers degrees in its own discipline, admits and advises its students, and maintains its own curriculum. Students are encouraged to take courses offered by other academic programs at CGU, approved upper-division courses at the other Claremont Colleges, and other interdisciplinary courses approved by their faculty advisor.
Academic Program Overview
Accelerated BA/MA Program
This program offers students from the undergraduate Claremont Colleges the special opportunity to obtain an accelerated MA through four-plus-one years of coursework (please see details in the “Master of Arts Degree” section of this Bulletin). Applicants must have the approval of their undergraduate advisor and a graduate advisor and are admitted under provisional status until they have completed their undergraduate degree. Students usually apply to the program in their junior year and can take a maximum of 12 or 16 graduate units toward the required units for the MA while registered as undergraduate students. Contact the recruiter for the School of Arts and Humanities for more details.
Dual Degree Programs
A dual degree within programs in the Arts and Humanities or with programs outside the Arts and Humanities provides an excellent opportunity to combine fields to create a degree in a specific interest such as cultural studies/philosophy, art/history, or English/applied women’s studies. Some traditional dual degree programs, such as philosophy/religion, are described in more detail in the department sections of the Bulletin, however, non-traditional dual degree programs can be created with the appropriate approvals in both departments/schools and a curriculum of study can be designed for that specific degree. Please refer to the dual degree section of this Bulletin under “Registration and Degree Information .”
Financial aid awards applied to dual degree students may be modified to reflect the special circumstances, and students may receive financial awards from both areas when the programs involved are in different CGU schools. See your faculty advisor for more information on dual degrees.
Concentration in Early Modern Studies
Early Modern Studies is a transdisciplinary concentration available to master’s students in the Arts and Humanities departments of English, History, and Philosophy. It is aimed at 1) preparing students for PhD-level work at U.S. universities in one of the above three disciplines, or 2) providing a discrete course of study that complements CGU MA coursework in archival or museum studies.
To complete a concentration in Early Modern Studies, a student must take five courses in the early modern period, 1200 - 1714, of which two must be outside the discipline in which the student is earning the degree. Courses in Latin Reading and Paleography are also required, as well as at least one course that is based upon bibliographic inquiry into the extensive collections of early modern print and manuscripts housed in Special Collections at Claremont’s Honnold/Mudd Library.
Joint Master’s Degree Programs in Arts Management
The School of Arts and Humanities and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management jointly offer the Master’s of Art in Arts Management and the Executive Master’s of Art in Arts Management. See full description under “Jointly Offered Programs .”
Certificate in Africana Studies
The purpose of the Africana Studies Graduate Certificate Program is to foster the acquisition of knowledge about Africa and the African Diaspora: their cultures, their histories, and their politics.
The Certificate Program is a joint endeavor between the Claremont Graduate University and the Intercollegiate Department of Africana Studies (IDAS) of The Claremont Colleges.
See full description under “Africana Studies .”
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