Overview of the Graduate Programs The Department of History at CUA prides itself upon its professional but friendly atmosphere of close interaction between students and faculty. As a small Department, we place a great premium on the careful supervision of our students. The Department offers both MA and PhD degrees in the fields in which we have particularly rich faculty and scholarly resources, enumerated below. Graduate education in this Department combines the development of research and teaching skills. Not all of our graduate students go on to the PhD, or make use of their degrees in teaching at the university level. But the basic skills involved in graduate study—in acquiring substantive historical knowledge, in the critical analysis of material, and in the presentation of that analysis—are the same whatever the end use desired. Research is only one aspect of the professional development of a historian; the ability to communicate research and arguments, whether in writing, in debate, or through teaching, is an equally important component. This Department offers multiple opportunities to develop all these abilities. Our program is designed to train students, whatever their future career paths, in these key skills of the historian. On the MA level, the Department offers an MA degree in History in the following fields: US History, Early Modern European History, Modern European History, and Medieval European History (with comparative attention to the pre-modern Islamic world). We also offer an MA program in Late Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Society, drawing on the particularly rich resources for the study of religious history available in the Department and the University more broadly. We also offer joint MA programs in Library and Information Sciences and with the Law School, for a joint JD/History MA. On the PhD level, we offer degrees in US History, Early Modern European History, Modern European History, and Medieval European History, with particular strength in Medieval History. Graduate Faculty The following faculty members of the Department are available to supervise graduate work: US History: Dr. Steve West, Section Head Dr. Michael Kimmage Dr. Tim Meagher While we do not offer graduate degrees in Latin American History, our US History students are able to profit from the courses and expertise of our Latin American historians: Dr. Tom Cohen Dr. Julia Young
Overview of the Graduate Programs The Department of History at CUA prides itself upon its professional but friendly atmosphere of close interaction between students and faculty. As a small Department, we place a great premium on the careful supervision of our students. The Department offers both MA and PhD degrees in the fields in which we have particularly rich faculty and scholarly resources, enumerated below. Graduate education in this Department combines the development of research and teaching skills. Not all of our graduate students go on to the PhD, or make use of their degrees in teaching at the university level. But the basic skills involved in graduate study—in acquiring substantive historical knowledge, in the critical analysis of material, and in the presentation of that analysis—are the same whatever the end use desired. Research is only one aspect of the professional development of a historian; the ability to communicate research and arguments, whether in writing, in debate, or through teaching, is an equally important component. This Department offers multiple opportunities to develop all these abilities. Our program is designed to train students, whatever their future career paths, in these key skills of the historian. On the MA level, the Department offers an MA degree in History in the following fields: US History, Early Modern European History, Modern European History, and Medieval European History (with comparative attention to the pre-modern Islamic world). We also offer an MA program in Late Medieval and Early Modern Religion and Society, drawing on the particularly rich resources for the study of religious history available in the Department and the University more broadly. We also offer joint MA programs in Library and Information Sciences and with the Law School, for a joint JD/History MA. On the PhD level, we offer degrees in US History, Early Modern European History, Modern European History, and Medieval European History, with particular strength in Medieval History. Graduate Faculty The following faculty members of the Department are available to supervise graduate work: US History: Dr. Steve West, Section Head Dr. Michael Kimmage Dr. Tim Meagher While we do not offer graduate degrees in Latin American History, our US History students are able to profit from the courses and expertise of our Latin American historians: Dr. Tom Cohen Dr. Julia Young