Ph.D Program Requirements (for students beginning the program in 2006-07)

Students must select a major field of study from the following:

• Origins and History of the United States
• Europe since 1500

Students must select a minor field from the following:

• Origins and History of the United States
• Europe since 1500
• Gender and Comparative Women's History
• World and Comparative History

Sixty semester hours beyond the M.A. are required, including 30 hours in coursework other than the dissertation.

• HST 702 Research Seminar (3) (or evidence of completion of equivalent course)
• HST 793 Historical Methods (3) (or evidence of completion of equivalent course)
• HST 794 History and Theories(3) (or evidence of completion of equivalent course)
• HST 703 Doctoral Workshop (6)
• One major field (12 hours required); one minor field (9 hours required), with a minimum of four Readings Colloquia among those 21 hours
• HST 710 American History
• HST 720 European History
• HST 760 World History Theories
• HST 770 Gender and Comparative Women's History
• HST 780 World and Comparative History
• Two courses in other departments (6)
• Demonstrate competence in a second language
• HST 850 Dissertation (16)

Graduate assistants are required to enroll each semester in HST 694 Methods in History Teaching (1). A student without an assistantship may take HST 695 Teaching Practicum (3), which provides an opportunity to gain limited supervised classroom experience.

 

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