Introduction
The School of Arts and Humanities brings together the departments of Art and Music with English , Cultural Studies , History , and Philosophy 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. Each Arts & 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.
The Arts at CGU provide students with focused curricula in the disciplines of studio art and music. 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.
The Humanities is comprised of both traditional Humanities programs, as well as innovative, interdisciplinary Applied Humanities programs and several certificates. The departments of Cultural Studies , English , History , and Philosophy offer MA and PhD degrees with multiple concentrations available. They also work together to offer Applied Humanities programs in archival studies , arts management , women’s studies , media studies , and museum 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.
For more about each department and/or programs use the following links.
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.
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