The Master of Arts in History offers two concentrations: public history and world history.
World history focuses on the history of regions or peoples in Africa, Europe, Latin America, Asia, or the United States, with attention to the intersections and connections between national, regional, and global developments. The concentration in World History stresses training in both the methods and literature of history, exposing students to the broad array of historical methodologies that enable historians to analyze and understand the past.
Emphasizing global approaches to historical study, the concentration encourages students to think transnationally and comparatively, and to explore themes that span geographically dispersed areas of the world, such as trade, migration, the global environment, state formation, or colonialism.
Candidates for the M.A. degree with a concentration in World History must demonstrate reading competence in one foreign language. Qualified M.A. candidates may be invited to apply to the department’s doctoral program in World History.
The master’s program offers an optional cooperative education experience (“co-op”) to eligible students. Cooperative education is central to both the Northeastern experience and to the College of Social Sciences and Humanities experiential liberal arts framework. Northeastern’s signature co-op ecosystem provides qualified master’s students with six-month work experiences as practicing public historians. Graduate students take their work from campus learning spaces, apply their knowledge outside of the classroom, and then bring knowledge and skills gained in community learning spaces back to our campus learning spaces during the cocurricular experiential integration course.’
For any questions, please reach out to Interim Graduate Program Director Dr. Victoria Cain at [email protected].
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