Overview
Purpose Statement
The History program of the Northern Arizona University offers a close professor-student relationship and is designed to prepare students to pursue careers in academia as well as the public and private sectors. These may include preparation for doctoral or other post-graduate degrees, teaching, public history, and public service. Our program strengths in the U.S. West and Borderlands are complemented by expertise in theoretical and thematic fields such as gender, environment, and race.
Student Learning Outcomes
All students graduating with the M.A. will:
- Elucidate key principles, theories, techniques, sources, and methods of the historical discipline and in the student’s primary and secondary fields.
- Explain the key principles, theories and methods of World and/or comparative history, and analyze historical processes and events and their interrelation, including debates and historiographies.
- Develop their historical research and writing skills through analysis and interpretation of primary and secondary source materials.
- Retrieve and analyze archival materials, historical documents and historiographical contributions and debates from various periods, interpreting and contextualizing them within their cultural, social, political, environmental, etc. contexts.
- Demonstrate a superior quality of writing both in terms of mechanics and in developing an argument effectively.
- Synthesize and evaluate the pertinent arguments and debates among historians in their chosen primary and secondary fields.
Programme Structure
Courses include:
- Readings In Comparative History
- Readings In World History
- Historiography And Methodologies
- Public History
- Readings In European History
- Readings In Gender, Race And Class
Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 12 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Credits
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Disciplines
History Ancient History Modern History View 324 other Masters in Modern History in United StatesAcademic requirements
English requirements
Other requirements
General requirements
- NAU Graduate Online application is required for all programs.
- Undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited institution.
- Grade Point Average (GPA) of 3.00 (scale is 4.00 = "A"), or the equivalent.
- Transcripts.
- English language proficiency scores.
- 3 letters of recommendation.
- Writing sample.
- Personal statement or essay.
Tuition Fee
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International
26994 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 26994 USD per year during 12 months. -
National
26994 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 26994 USD per year during 12 months. -
In-State
11004 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 11004 USD per year during 12 months.
Living costs for Flagstaff
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
Funding
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