HISTORY

Faculty
Glenn Sunshine (Chair, Diloreto 206 ), Jay Bergman,  M.B. Biskupski, Gloria Emeagwali, Leah Glaser, Briann Greenfield, Katherine Hermes, Mark Jones, Elias Kapetanopoulos, Mary Ann Mahony, Norton Mezvinsky, Heather Munro Prescott, John Tully, Matthew Warshauer, Louise Williams,Robert Wolff .

Dept. phone: 832-2800

Department Overview
The Department of History provides an M.A. degree in History, and a M.A. degree in Public History. The Department, in cooperation with other departments in the social science areas, offers various programs for teachers, and presents courses for the general education of graduate students in other fields of specialization.

Admission to the degree programs in the Department requires the prerequisite of an undergraduate history major or its equivalent, generally interpreted as 30 credits in history and closely related fields. A graduate student lacking this prerequisite will be required to take courses for undergraduate credit to make up any deficiency.

Each student taking a major or a concentration in History will be assigned to a graduate adviser who will assist the student in designing the planned program of graduate study. All graduate student planned programs in History require the approval of the adviser and department chair.

Programs

MASTER OF ARTS IN HISTORY 
(30 semester hours, including a thesis)
Three 500-level History courses (9 cr.) 
Three additional History courses (including HIST 495 unless this or a similar course was taken at the undergraduate level) (9 cr.) 
HIST 599, Thesis (6 cr.) 
Electives in related fields (6 cr.) 

No more than three courses (9 credits) may be taken at the 400-level in this program. All masters theses require an adviser and second reader.

Candidates will be required to demonstrate the ability to translate material in their field in one foreign language, except in those cases where, upon the request of a candidate in U.S. history, a substitute skill or subject is approved by the Department. Candidates must make application in the Department to take the language examination. Deadlines are October 10, for the fall examination; March 10, for the spring.

The fields of concentration available in the M.A. Program are U.S. History, European History, and Comparative World History.

Note: The Department of History is currently revising the language
          requirements for the MA in History. Please consult the chair,
          Glenn Sunshine, for more information. 

MASTER OF ARTS IN PUBLIC HISTORY
Public history is the practice of history outside academia and the classroom setting.   Career opportunities for public historians are diverse and include positions in museums, historic sites, film and television, the tourism industry, and the government. Public historians make the messages or lessons of the past accessible to a broad general audience and relevant to a wide range of people. By applying their skills in the non-academic world they provide a service to the community as a whole.

CCSU Master of Arts program in Public History provides students with the academic background, job specific skills, and hands-on experience necessary to work in a variety of public history jobs, or to bring the benefits of public history into their classroom teaching on the K-12 level.

For more Information visit the Public History website at: http://www.history.ccsu.edu/ma_pubhist.html

33 Credits, including an internship and project (Plan C)
Public History Courses required: (18 Credits)

Graduate Courses specific to Public History

1. History 501 Historiography (3 Credits)

2. History 510 Seminar in Public History (3 credits)

3. History 511 Topics in Public History (taken twice with different topics:
    6 credits)

4. History 521 Public History Internship (3 credits)

5. History 595 Public History Research Project (3 credits) (Capstone)

General History Courses to be taken from the following list: 3 courses (9credits)

1. History 560 Seminar in American History

2. History 566 U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction

3. History 565 Seminar in 17th and 18th Century America

4. History 567 The United States in the 1920s

5. History 568 Seminar on the New Deal

6. History 570 Immigration in American History

7. History 540 Seminar in European History

8. Pending Courses in Sectionalism and Jackson

Two Elective Courses (6 credits): chosen in consultation with an advisor. At least one of these elective courses (3 credits) must be taken in a discipline other than history.
 

For More information contact:

Glenn S. Sunshine (832-2810; sunshineg@ccsu.edu).

Briann Greenfield, PhD (860) 832-2821 greenfieldb@ccsu.edu

Additional application requirements can be found at:

http://www.ccsu.edu/grad/Additional_Material/History.html

CERTIFICATION
The Department of History in cooperation with the School of Education and Professional Studies offers courses of study leading to secondary teacher certification in History and in History and Social Studies. Information about current Connecticut teacher certification requirements may be obtained from the Office of the Dean, School of Education and Professional Studies. 

For more Information visit the Department of History website at:

http://history.ccsu.edu/history_ss.html

POST-MASTER’S STUDY
Individually designed 30-credit programs of post-master’s study are available for qualified students.