2010-2011 Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]
History
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Faculty
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Academic Program
Coordinated by the core faculty of the Graduate University, the faculty in history draws on the combined faculties of The Claremont Colleges with a resulting staff equivalent to that of a much larger university. Yet, because of the unique organization of the Graduate University, the history faculty can emphasize individual instruction and frequent advising and mentoring. Students have maximum access to faculty, staff, and facilities. The students who enter the department each year are carefully selected on the basis of interest and proven ability.
The faculty in history offers three distinct programs, each leading to advanced degrees in history. At the master’s degree level, the comparatively conventional history program offers a wide variety of major fields (see below), and at the doctoral level the program offers concentrations in United States and European history. In addition, the faculty in history offer multidisciplinary programs in American studies and in European studies. Interdisciplinary studies are especially important as they reflect the multicultural elements in American and European history. This emphasis is encouraged in all history degree programs.
Students select among distinct programs, each leading to advanced degrees in history. At the master’s degree level, students major in U.S. or European history, American studies, early modern studies, or archival studies. At the doctoral level the department offers concentrations in United States or European history, in Amercian studies, and in early modern studies. We encourage breadth of study irrespective of a student’s major field and we strongly encourage interdisciplinary work.
The history department provides advanced professional education as preparation for a variety of careers. Traditionally, historians have worked in academic settings as scholars and teachers, or in closely related institutions such as libraries, archives, and museums. Increasingly, however, advanced education in history is being regarded as broad-based humanistic training, equipping students with research capabilities, writing skills, analytical methods, and communications skills that are useful in many fields. The History Department welcomes students who wish to teach in secondary schools, community colleges, four-year universities, and students who intend non-teaching careers.
Instruction in history is carried on in seminars. Classes are small and the favorable student-faculty ratio allows for an unusual amount of individual attention from faculty members. Students work with faculty advisers in planning their course of study; candidates for the Ph.D. work closely with a faculty committee composed of professors in the student’s fields of study.
The Libraries of The Claremont Colleges provide excellent research facilities and resources. Also in Claremont is the library of the Claremont School of Theology. The Huntington Library, one of the world’s finest research libraries for English and American history, is in nearby San Marino.
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.
Links to Specific Degrees or Further Information
History, MA
History and Archival Studies, MA
History, PhD
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