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Master of Arts
Sequence of Courses
This program requires 36 semester hours, the equivalent of nine courses. All students should take one course in historical methodology and historiography; a series of electives; and a culminating research project or internship (fieldwork, thesis, teaching practicum, or public history internship). Students may enroll on either a full-time or part-time basis as long as they complete the program within five years. The program may be completed in three semesters (in some cases, within one academic year, including summer study).
Required Courses
HIST 597 Historical Methods and Research
or
HIST 460 Interpreting the Past: The Craft of History
Elective Courses - partial list* (24 or 28 credits)
HIST 527Archives, History, and Collective Memory
HIST 529 Film and Historical Representations
HIST 535 Research Seminar in Public History
HIST 560 Seminar in the History of Women and Gender
HIST 561 Cross-Cultural Encounters
HIST 562 Reforms and Revolutions in Asia
HIST 567 Memory and the Holocaust
HIST 571 Seminar in Early America
HIST 573 Seminar in the Nineteenth-Century United States
HIST 574 Seminar in the Modern United States
HIST 577 Topics in Modern European History
Independent Study (4 or 8 credits)
HIST 450 Independent Study
HIST 455 Thesis
HIST 570 Internship
HIST 580 Fieldwork
*This coursework is subject to change. Other electives are available on a semester-by-semester basis. A list of current electives for each semester is available from theprogram director.
