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Advanced Skills and Practices for Further Study or Career Achievement
M.A. in history prepares students to read, 写, 研究 and think critically and analytically about the past at an advanced level. Fellow students may be people who are simply seeking to expand their knowledge and critical skills in specialized fields of historical study. Others may be 教学 professionals who wish to gain continuing education credits and enhance their professional opportunities. 整体, the skills students gain are essential to success in graduate school and law school, 以及以下职业:
- 业务
- 公务员
- 政府
- 研究
- 教学
The course of study will consist of a mix of seminars and advanced lecture courses that address the most recent scholarship and trends in a wide variety of historical specialties. Students will explore history across a variety of chronological, regional and thematic frameworks.
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论文及研讨会计划
All students must choose between a thesis plan and a seminar plan. In both the seminar and thesis plans, you will pursue independent 研究 from a variety of theoretical, investigative and pedagogical approaches and the widest possible range of historical writing.
论文计划
Students in the thesis plan will produce a major 研究 paper that is based on extensive independent 研究 in primary sources and that comprises an original contribution to the historical literature of the topic. The thesis plan requires a minimum of 30 credit hours, including HIST 501, 521, 561, 562 和571年. Six credit hours must be in HIST 599, which culminates in a written thesis. 在你导师的同意下, 3 credit hours may be elected in a related discipline, 比如语言, statistical methods or 电脑 science. 项目完成后, you must pass an oral examination on your thesis and your major field.
研讨会计划
The seminar plan also requires a minimum of 30 credit hours, 包括历史501, 521, 561, 562, 和571年. In addition, HIST 561 must be taken a second time. 在你导师的同意下, 3 credit hours may be elected in a related discipline, 比如语言, statistical methods or 电脑 science.
Whether you’re in the thesis plan or the seminar plan, you may take up to 6 credit hours of graduate courses at the University of Rhode Island from the university's 400- and 500-level 历史系 course offerings, with the consent of your advisor or department chair.
程序/学习目标
Upon completion of this program, students will demonstrate:
- An advanced understanding of the origins of history as a field of study and how it has evolved and continues to change.
- An advanced understanding of the various interpretive schools of historical writing, with emphasis on causal relations and multiple perspectives, and of the role of bias in the construction of historical narratives.
- Advanced 研究 and writing skills, including the ability to critically evaluate the widest variety of historical sources and to produce thoroughly 研究ed, carefully conceptualized and clearly written projects.
- An understanding of the evolution of a variety of world cultures, especially within the context of comparative historical 研究.
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历史系
History is a multidimensional field that historians and students have approached in a multitude of ways. At its core, history tackles fundamental questions of human society.
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