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M.A. IN HISTORY AT CSI
M.A. ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS
M.A. DEGREE REQUIREMENTS
M.A. COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
CAREER INFORMATION
STUDENT THESES
HISTORY DEPARTMENT FACULTY
M.A. CONTACT INFORMATION
DEPARTMENT CONTACT INFORMATION
HISTORY DEPARTMENT HOMEPAGE
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Spring 2010 Course Offerings, M.A. in History
HISTORY 711: Topics in the History of East Asia (4 hours, 4 credits).
This course covers important issues in East Asian history. Topics explored are: Late Imperial China, Tokugawa Japan, Meiji Japan, Republican-era China, rebellion and revolution in China, The People's Republic of China, the Cultural Revolution in China, and international relations in East Asia.
IN SPRING 2010: Professor Richard Lufrano will address modern China in a global context.
HISTORY 725: Topics in U.S. History to 1865 (4 hours, 4 credits).
This course covers the period of colonial American history until the Civil War era. Important topics in the early history of the United States will be explored. These may include a selection of the following: racial encounters in the New World, the environmental history of the United States, the intellectual and cultural history of the American nation, colonial American history, the American Revolution and the early republic, Jacksonian America, and the Civil War era.
IN SPRING 2010: Professor John Dixon will address the historiography of British New York, focusing on historiographical paradigms from the early 20th century to the present.
Thesis Courses:
HISTORY 798: Preparation of Thesis Proposal (4 hours, 4 credits).
Students in their third semester will enroll in the Preparation of Thesis Proposal Seminar. In the seminar, students will develop their topic, begin research, collect bibliography, and receive instruction in research methodology and historical writing. Students will write a historiographical essay, reviewing the broader historical literature of their subject and relating their own approach to the field. Before completion of the seminar, students, in consultation with faculty and the program coordinator, will be assigned a thesis director and a second reader.
Prerequisites: Permission of History MA Program Coordinator.
IN SPRING 2010: This course is available as an Independent Study Course for students who have completed sufficient credits towards the Master's degree.
If you wish to register for the course, you should contact the Coordinator of the MA Program and the Professor with whom you wish to write your thesis. You will then complete the Independent Study form (available in the History Department Office), and attach to it the "Guidelines for HST 798 as an Independent Study Course" form (downloadable here). These forms will then be signed by your advisor and the Coordinator.
HISTORY 799: Thesis Tutorial Seminar (4 hours, 4 credits).
While students are working on their thesis they will enroll in the Thesis Tutorial Seminar under the supervision of their director. The thesis director will monitor students' progress on their thesis and meet regularly with the students. Students will present portions and drafts of their work in progress to the thesis director and, under the advice of the director, consult with the readers before submitting a formal draft to the thesis committee (the director and second and third readers).
Prerequisites: HST 798 and permission of History MA Program Coordinator.
IN SPRING 2010: This course is available as an Independent Study Course for students who have completed sufficient credits towards the Master's degree.
If you wish to register for the course, you should contact the Coordinator of the MA Program and the Professor with whom you wish to write your thesis. You will then complete the Independent Study form (available in the History Department Office), and attach to it the "Guidelines for HST 799 as an Independent Study Course" form (downloadable here). These forms will then be signed by your advisor and the Coordinator.
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