History-Capstone Option (European History)

Course Overview

The Master of Arts in History provides its students with an exhaustive array of opportunities to pursue the world's great personalities, events, nations, trends, periods, conflicts, and markings of progress. The degree program ensures that students will learn about the " big picture" through exposure to four historical perspectives or concentrations in Ancient and Classical, American, European, and Global History, while allowing options to tailor the major to individual needs during graduate study. In addition to the institutional and degree level learning outcomes objectives, this degree also seeks the following specific learning outcomes of its graduates. With reference to each of the respective areas of history, graduates in this degree program will be able to: Demonstrate a broad knowledge of historical individuals and events and the global complexity of human experiences over time and place. Distinguish the historical schools of thought that have shaped scholarly understanding of the profession. Apply persuasive arguments that are reasoned and based on suitable evidence. Evaluate secondary resources, through historiographical analysis, for credibility, position, and perspective. Assess a variety of primary sources, digital and archival, in the process of deeply researching the past. Generate research that makes original contributions to knowledge, through the use of advanced historical methods. Produce a high-quality research paper that meets professional standards typical for a conference presentation or academic publication.