历史文学硕士

历史系提供传统的文学硕士学位，其学术重点是为学生从事以下行业的职业做准备：商业和政府，教育和法律，出版和公共服务，新闻和公民身份。对传统学者的重视为历史研究提供了严格的指导，同时发展了研究，分析，情境化和交流方面的可转移的专业技能。
The Department of History offers a traditional M.A. with an academic focus that prepares students for careers in a variety of fields. The M.A. in History prepares students in the intellectual foundations of the discipline while training them for a career in a variety of fields, including education, government, law and public history. All M.A. students receive the same rigorous instruction in historical scholarship, thinking and research methods.<br>Students graduating from this program will:<br><br>recognize, demonstrate, and apply in-depth knowledge of the world's civilizations and peoples as well as their political, economic, social, and cultural histories.<br>relate the events in their particular historic story to the general history of the topic, and students relate their interpretations to existing historiography.<br>demonstrate the ability to independently develop original scholarly inquiry, systematically researching the topic using appropriate primary and/or secondary sources.<br>be able to use primary and secondary sources to independently construct an original historical interpretation: demonstrating competency in identifying a problem, posing a hypothesis, proposing a methodology, offering an interpretation of the evidence, and making an original contribution to scholarly debates.<br>be able to compose and present clear, well-organized, properly documented, and grammatical prose in a form appropriate for scholarly publication.<br>be able to appraise alternative readings of the past and connect them to their research in new holistic interpretations that offer new avenues for research or application to other studies.