Claremont Graduate University

Founded in 1925, CGU was the second of the Claremont Colleges to form, following Pomona College and preceding Scripps College . The school has undergone several name changes since its inception. After being called Claremont University College for 37 years, in 1962 the school officially became known as Claremont Graduate School and University Center. Five years later, in 1967, the name was again changed to Claremont University Center, and in 1998 it acquired the name Claremont Graduate University. The Claremont Colleges were designed to incorporate the Oxford Model of higher education. Instead of one large university composed of several separate schools, the Claremont Colleges are made up of different institutions designed around differing theories of pedagogy. CGU was founded upon the principle that graduate education is separate and distinct from undergraduate education. Students discover and cultivate their disciplines during undergraduate course work; at CGU students continue cultivation of their own disciplines, but are also expected to augment this with research that incorporates other disciplines as well. This is called " Transdisciplinarity " and is an essential component of Claremont Graduate University's functioning theory of pedagogy . [ 4 ] The school is home to more than 2,000 master's and PhD students, as well as approximately 200 full and part-time faculty members. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has classified Claremont Graduate University as a CompDoc/NMedVet: Comprehensive doctoral (no medical/veterinary) with high research activity. [ 5 ] Its seven academic units and other related programs and institutes award master's and/or doctoral degrees in 31 disciplines. Enrollment is limited and classes are small. In 2018, the university also introduced its first online master's degree programs. [ 6 ]

Claremont Colleges Among the contiguous CGU, Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life Sciences , and undergraduate colleges ( Pomona , Claremont McKenna , Harvey Mudd , Scripps , and Pitzer ), cross-registration is free, and the members share libraries, health care, security, and other facilities.

Arts & Humanities The School of Arts and Humanities includes departments in the fields of Art, Arts Management, Religion, History, English, Music, Cultural Studies, Archival Studies, Media Studies, and Applied Women's Studies. These subjects have an interest in interdisciplinary studies that provide disciplinary depth as well as cross-disciplinary flexibility. The Institute for Antiquity & Christianity, which houses the School of Arts and Humanities and the Department of Religion In the Department of Religion, students can earn a degree with a focus in Mormon Studies , Catholicism , Islamic Studies , History of Christianity , Hebrew Bible , Indic Studies , Coptic Studies , Zoroastrianism ; additional programs include Women's Studies in Religion, Religion and American Politics, Ethics and Culture, and Philosophy of Religion and Theology .

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