History, MA
Chairperson: Lezlie S. Knox, Ph.D.
Department of History Graduate Program website
Degree Offered
Master of Arts
Program Description
History includes politics, economics, and aesthetics, as well as social, spiritual and cultural relations—our past, our present, and our potential as human beings. The history graduate program, mindful of the discipline’s manifold importance and application, offers master of arts and doctoral degree programs in breadth and depth, allowing for diverse professional outcomes.
Graduate study in history permits students to increase their knowledge of the past and the processes that have shaped the human experience. Such study may prepare students for careers in scholarship, teaching, public service fields, cultural institutions, and many business settings.
General Information
Direction and Advising
The director of graduate studies is charged with directing the department’s graduate programs and with the general advising of all graduate students in matters of course selection, financial aid, and placement. In consultation with the director of graduate studies, a field adviser also may assist in directing the student’s field-specific work, including: the selection of course work, the master’s essay, and advising on the student's next professional steps.
Degree Overview
Students begin with the course HIST 6100 History, Theory and Practice, which addresses methodological and epistemological approaches to the study of history at the graduate level. Master of arts candidates complete 30 credit hours of course work. They also must submit a master’s essay or public history project to fulfill degree requirements.
All master’s students must complete 30 credit hours of course work and a master’s essay or public history project. Included in that total is HIST 6100 History, Theory, Practice and HIST 6961 Master of Arts Essay and Professional Discernment, and at least six of those credits must be in research seminars (HIST 6954). With the consent of the department chairperson, six credit hours of graduate work outside the department may be included in the master of arts program. No foreign language is required for the master’s degree.
Students may choose to complete three required courses to fulfill a focus in Public History: HIST 5100 Public History, HIST 5101 Applied History, and 3 credit hours in HIST 5986 Internship in History.
Required Course Work
Code | Title | Hours |
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Required courses: | 12 | |
History, Theory and Practice | ||
Seminar in History (taken twice) | ||
Master of Arts Essay and Professional Discernment | ||
Additional courses selected from: | 18 | |
Public History | ||
Applied History | ||
From Colony to Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations 1776-1914 | ||
Rise to Global Superpower: U.S. Foreign Relations since 1914 | ||
American Immigration | ||
Latinx Civil Rights Movements | ||
Midwestern Latinx Communities | ||
Religion and American Life | ||
African-American History | ||
A History of Women in America | ||
A History of Native America | ||
A History of Indigenous Wisconsin and Milwaukee | ||
Cultural and Intellectual History of the United States | ||
Histories of Race and Law in the United States | ||
The Black Death | ||
The Crusades | ||
Gender and Sexuality in Premodern Europe | ||
Art and Power in 18th-century Britain | ||
Modern Britain | ||
The British Empire | ||
Modern Ireland: From the Rising to the Revolution | ||
Historical Justice in Modern Germany | ||
Nazi Germany and the Holocaust | ||
The Russian Revolution and the Soviet Union | ||
The Cold War | ||
United States-Latin American Relations | ||
The Caribbean | ||
History of Mexico | ||
Race and History of South Africa | ||
Modern Japan | ||
Age of the Samurai | ||
Medieval East Asia | ||
Modern China | ||
Comparative Twentieth-Century Genocides | ||
History and Memory | ||
Comparative Homefronts during the Second World War | ||
Topics in History | ||
Readings in History | ||
Internship in History | ||
The British Atlantic World to the American Revolution | ||
The American Revolution and the New Nation | ||
The Sectional Conflict, Civil War Era and Gilded Age | ||
United States in the Twentieth Century | ||
Medieval Europe | ||
Early Modern Europe | ||
Nineteenth-Century Europe | ||
Twentieth-Century Europe | ||
Global History | ||
Studies in United States History | ||
Studies in Medieval History | ||
Studies in Early Modern History | ||
Studies in European History | ||
Studies in Latin American History | ||
Studies in African History | ||
Studies in Asian History | ||
Studies in Global History | ||
Independent Study in History | ||
Other courses as approved by the director of graduate studies. | ||
Total Credit Hours: | 30 |
ACCELERATED BACHELOR'S-MASTER'S DEGREE PROGRAM
The accelerated degree program in history allows Marquette University students to earn both a bachelor of arts degree with a major or minor in history and a master of arts degree in history in five years. This option is especially well-suited for students pursuing careers in public history and allied fields. For additional information about requirements, interested students should contact the Department of History.
ADP students complete 12 hours of approved graduate credit in history during the senior undergraduate year that count as part of the undergraduate credit hour requirement.
As seniors, the students enroll in HIST 6100 History, Theory and Practice, a required class for all entering graduate students, during the fall term. In the spring, they enroll in the graduate research seminar (HIST 6954 Seminar in History). That course may be counted as the seminar requirement for the history major. During the senior year, they also enroll in two other graduate classes at the 5000 or 6000 level that relate to their proposed field of history as advised by the director of graduate studies. These graduate courses offer students the possibility to pursue topics of interest to them in more depth than they are able to in undergraduate classes. They also couple smaller class sizes and more opportunities for participation with an emphasis on the refinement of student research skills.
All remaining master’s degree requirements may be completed during the subsequent fall and spring terms.
As a master’s candidate, ADP students enroll in a second graduate research seminar (HIST 6954 Seminar in History) during the fall term, HIST 6961 Master of Arts Essay and Professional Discernment in the spring term, and also complete four other graduate courses to earn the 30 credits required for the master of arts degree. The other degree requirement is the master’s essay or the public history project.
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