M.A. Course Requirements

*Accepting Applications for the 2026-27 Academic Year, the application will open on October 1*

• HIS 200, Methods and Theories of History
• HIS 201, Directed Research Colloquium
• HIS 202, Practicing World History
• HIS 298A, Constructing a Field, an independent study with adviser (Year 1, fall or winter quarter)
  
• One of the following research seminars during your first four quarters:
  • HIS 204A, History of Gender
  • HIS 204C, Colonialism, Nationalism, and Transnational Movements
  • HIS 204E, Transnationalism, Borderlands, and History
• One 2-unit courses:
  • First Year: HIS 280A
• Field of Concentration:
  • Seven courses (five units each), two of which may be taken outside the History Department. Courses taken are graduate seminars, most upper-division undergraduate courses, and independent study courses.