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Academic Program

The program in botany of Claremont Graduate University at the Rancho SantaAna Botanic Garden places itsmain emphasis on the systematics and evolution of higher plants. Subfields includemonographic and revisionary studies, population and conservation genetics, molecular systematics, phylogenetics, plant anatomy, floristics, comparativemorphology, plant geography, and reproductive biology. The program is researchintensive with a strong field-work component. Considerable interaction exists between students and faculty.

The facilities for graduate work in botany are housed at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. Among the physical facilities for advanced study and research are a botanical library, a comprehensive herbarium (with approximately one-million specimens),wood and pollen slide collections, a fully equipped molecular laboratory with automated DNA sequencing, a scanning electronmicroscope, growth chambers, greenhouses, long-termseed storage facilities, experimental plots, extensive California native living plant collections, and well-equipped anatomy laboratories and computing facilities.Claremont lies within easy reach of deserts,mountains, and the ocean, and is thus conveniently located for diverse botanical field studies.

Thesis work leading to the Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy degree may be carried out in various systematicsrelated fields including anatomy, agrostology, biogeography, comparativemorphology, ecology, conservation biology, floristics, monography,molecular systematics, cytotaxonomy, phylogenetics, and population and conservation genetics.

Taking appropriate courses at one of the undergraduate Claremont Collegesmaymake up undergraduate deficiencies. The graduate courses offered any particular year are dependent upon the needs and interests of the students.

Degree requirements. For course requirements and other institutional policies, see the “Degree Regulations ” section of this Bulletin.

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