A part-time student may take one or two courses. Course requirements vary by instructor, but may include reading a book each week and preparing a short essay for discussion, weekly readings culminating in a research paper, or reading combined with short writing assignments. The reading load is frequently heavy with 250-400 pages or more of reading per week per class. The Claremont Colleges includes Claremont Graduate University, Pomona College, Scripps College, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont McKenna College, and Pitzer College. The core faculty is comprised of faculty from the Graduate School and some of the other colleges.
Graduate students are able to take upper division undergraduate professors, with permission.
In addition to financial aid, CGU provides a number of merit fellowships. These and other institutional funds are listed in the CGU Bulletin. The Bulletin also provides information about California State Graduate Fellowships and Federal Aid. We encourage you to seek external grants and fellowships for graduate study. The majority of funding sources are not granted specifically for History, but instead support research in a discipline, or more generally in the humanities and social sciences.