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Graduate Studies in History

Degree Requirements

• 1. Two years of coursework, with a total of 12.5 courses, including:
     
     • Theory and Method
     • Proseminar in United States history
     • Proseminar in Transnational history
     • Research Seminar (two semesters)
     • Three of five courses in the following thematic clusters: African American and African diaspora; culture and power; gender and family; labor and politics; and science, technology, and environment.
     • Four readings courses or electives
     • Mini course in instruction
     
     
  2. Students are encouraged to take their Doctoral Qualifying Exams at the end of their fifth semester, and receive approval of a prospectus of their planned dissertation research soon after.
     
     
  3. Completion of doctoral dissertation.