History - Ph.D. Program Requirements Download to print

The student will elect one general, one specialized, and one thematic field. General fields include Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America, and United States. Specialized fields include topical and regional areas of Europe and the United States, public history, and gender/women. Either the general or the specialized field must be the field embracing the dissertation. The thematic field must combine two different continents, or the modern period and a chronological period before 1500, and revolve around a common theme. Thematic fields include political/intellectual, social/cultural, empire/foreign relations, and religion and society. The student’s advisor will determine if the student needs to demonstrate reading knowledge of a foreign language. All students must elect additional courses in a discipline or research area related to history that will be useful in completing their dissertations.

 

I. PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS (60 credit hours)
Course		Title	Credits
HIST	71005	Teaching World History	3
	81001	Methods of Historical Research	3
	81002	Historiography	3
	89199 89299	Dissertation I and Dissertation II	30
Choose six courses from the following: Seminar and Colloquia			18
HIST	72497	Colloquium: Women in Modern Europe (3)
	73097	Colloquium: Medieval Russia (3)
	74297	Colloquium in African History (3)
	75597	Colloquium in Russian History (3)
	75697	Colloquium: Social History of Latin America (3)
	76597	Colloquium in 20th-Century European Diplomacy (3)
	78697	Colloquium on U.S. Middle Period, 1820-1900 (3)
	78797	Colloquium in African-American History to 1877 (3)
	78897	Colloquium in African-American History Since 1877 (3)