Modifications made to curriculum: Fall 2018, Fall 2023

Emphasizes the training of teachers alongside scholars, and preparation for non-academic as well as academic careers. Through opportunities such as internships, seminars, and workshops, students can receive additional training in various areas, including, but not limited to, publishing, digital media, museum curation, and philanthropic organizations.

Advanced Research

In consultation with their advisor, students in the MA program may choose to write a master’s thesis based on scholarly primary research or may choose a non-thesis track.

Curricular Components

Historiography - exposes students to numerous historical approaches over a variety of subjects and time periods, with the goal of understanding the kinds of questions historians ask and the various methodologies they use to study that past, via historical works critical to our collective understanding, and historiographical conversations between and among historians.

Methodology - covers methodological and/or theoretical approaches within history or from another discipline, via theoretical texts as well as work by scholars who use that theory.  

Extradisciplinarity - develops familiarity with the scholarly perspectives, literature, and methods of an extra-disciplinary field, beyond history.  

Research - develops the methods of historical scholarship, such as archival work, primary source analysis, and thesis and argument development, resulting in the preparation of a publishable paper, and supported by working closely with faculty members with expertise in the subject matter.  

Internships

Students may choose to undertake an internship in a professional context where history and culture provides additional expertise, such as museums and libraries or specialized publishers, foundations, or businesses.