Dean: Marc Redfield
Associate Dean: Robert Zappulla
(909) 621-8612
Humanities@cgu.edu
www.cgu.edu/sah
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 and cultural 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 M.F.A. and M.A. degrees, 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 comprises cultural studies, English, history, philosophy, applied women’s studies, archival studies and a certificate program in Africana studies. Innovative and interdisciplinary in our approach to learning, the humanities programs promote the study of human history, literature, and culture as a means to understanding the problems of today. We host 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.
Accelerated BA/MA Program
This program offers students from the undergraduate Claremont Colleges the special opportunity to obtain an accelerated M.A. 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 M.A. while registered as undergraduate students. Contact the individual department office for 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
Ph.D. students in the humanities may choose a concentration in the interdisciplinary field of early modern studies. See full description in the section titled “Program in Early Modern Studies .”
Master’s Degree in Arts and Cultural Management
The School of Arts and Humanities and the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management jointly offer the Master of Arts in Arts and Cultural Management. See full description under “Jointly Offered Programs .”
Research Tool Requirement (Applies to all programs except Art)
Proficiency in a foreign language is a vital tool for scholarship, both in interpretation of texts and of important critical works for research and teaching. With this in mind, cultural studies, English, history, music, and philosophy programs require a demonstration of reading knowledge and proficiency in one language other than English for the master’s student and two languages other than English for the Ph.D. student. The language examinations are offered three times each year, and are administered through the Arts and Humanities Office. (See each department’s requirement for completing the research tool requirement.)