Master of Arts - History

The history graduate program provides students with cutting-edge training in historical and historiographical knowledge and professional debates. The curriculum emphasizes the inevitable connections between the local and the global through small seminars and close faculty guidance of student scholarship. The strengths in the United Science West and Borderlands are complemented by expertise in theoretical and thematic fields such as gender, environment, and race.

This advanced program of study offers students an extended coursework approach to the Master’s degree. Students are encouraged to build local, regional, and global perspectives into their thematic and geographical explorations. This means they become familiar with lenses that allow them to zoom out from a micro-focus to see the ripples and implications in the greater scope yet also search from the macro perspective to the more localized to understand root causes and consequences.