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Graduate Program: History (MA) - Accelerated Master's Program

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Program/Degree
History (MA) - Accelerated Master's Program  
Program Description

The History Accelerated Master's program is designed for high-achieving undergraduate history majors and enables them to obtain their B.A. and M.A. degrees in History within five years. This program is intended both for students interested in enhancing their qualifications for careers in politics, business, public policy, teaching, museum studies, and public history, as well as for students interested in admission to other graduate programs (such as J.D. programs at law schools, and M.A. or Ph.D. programs in Education, History, Political Science, Public Policy, Foreign Policy).

 
Department/Academic Unit(s)

History

The Department of History offers an Accelerated Masters, Master of Arts, Doctor of Philosophy degrees with a major in History, and a certificate in Early Modern Studies. The graduate program emphasizes the development of critical habits and technical skills to foster advanced research, publication and teaching in the field of history, broadly conceived. Coursework nurtures these proficiencies as well as preparing students to deploy a range of theoretical frameworks to analyze materials from the past. Fields of study for students pursuing a degree in History are as follows: Asia (Masters only), Comparative/World History (Masters, PhD minor), Early Europe, Latin America, Middle East (Ph.D. only), Modern Europe, and United States History.

 
College

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

 
Campus where offered

University of Arizona - Main - Tucson

 
Contacts
Admissions Contact
Adam E Donaldson
520-621-1586
Graduate Program Coordinator
Adam E Donaldson
520-621-1586
Director of Graduate Studies
David Ortiz
520-626-8419
Graduate College Degree Counselor
Annie Prisbrey
520-621-0119
 
Tuition and Fees
Please refer to the UA Bursar's Office Tuition and Fees Calculator for up-to-date information about tuition and fees. 
Please refer to the UA Registrar's's Office Special Course Fees for up-to-date information about special course fees. 

Admissions Information

Admissions Requirements

To apply of the Acelerate Master's program you must be majoring in History, be a Junior, have a 3.5 GPA and have foreign language skills. Apply online during the Spring of your Junior year.  Application includes: Transcripts, 3 Letters of Recommendation (preferably from University faculty), Application Essay, and good news: NO GRE!

 
Standardized Tests

No Standardized Tests are required.

 
Funding Opportunities

The Department of History does not offer financial assistance for the Accelerated Master's program.
 

 
Admissions Deadlines

Domestic Applicants:

Spring semester of your Junior Year: March 1st

International Applicants:

Spring semester of your Junior Year: March 1st

 
International Conditional Admission

International applicants will not be considered for conditional admission by this program.

Other Information
The GRE Institution Code for The University of Arizona is 4832

Completion Requirements

Minimum Credit Units

30 

Core Coursework Requirements

Core Coursework: 12 units (4 courses) at the 500-level during the Undergraduate program, 15 units (5 courses) during the AMP/graduate component at the 600-level (this must include two HIST 696 seminars).  In addition, students must take HIST 695K (Historiography), 3 units, minimum grade: B.

 
Elective Coursework

AMP students in History can select from a wide variety of course offerings.  The following is a representative sample:

HIST 500A Medieval Europe (3 units)

HIST 531 Colonial North America (3 units)

HIST 511 Human Sexuality in World History (3 units)

HIST 542 Natural Resources and Law in the Spanish Borderlands of North America (3 units)

HIST 572 History of Medieval India (3 units)

HIST 528 Food, Health, and Environment in World History (3 units)

HIST 695E Advanced Study in the History of Women (3 units)

HIST 695I World History (3 units)

HIST 695Q Comparative History of World Revolutions (3 units)

HIST 696J Latin America: Modern Period (3 units)

HIST 696M Gender, Sexuality, and International Migration (3 units)

HIST 696N Comparative Women's History (3 units)

HIST 699 Independent Study (1-3 units)

 
Additional Requirements

Language Requirement: A reading knowledge of one second language is required.  This requirement must be completed BEFORE the written/oral comprehensive examination.

Thesis Defense/Comprehensive Examination: Students choosing to write an MA thesis must successfully defend their completed thesis.  Students choosing instead to completed two (2) seminar papers (through HIST 696 seminar courses) must pass a comprehensive examination. 

 

 
Student Handbook

Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.

 

Additional Information

This is an Accelerated Master's Program (AMP).

The Graduate College offers exceptional undergraduate students in selected majors the opportunity to earn both a bachelor's degree and master's degree in as few as 5 years. The Accelerated Master's Program is for the top undergraduates in participating majors who plan to continue in a graduate program in the same, or closely related, UA discipline.

Programs will select from among a qualified pool, based on the following criteria. Individual programs may have more stringent or additional requirements:

  • Completion of a minimum of 75 undergraduate credit hours will be required at the time of application; a minimum of 90 undergraduate credit hours will be required at the time of entry into the AMP. If the student's GPA falls below 3.30 at the time s/he has completed 90 units, the student will not be admitted into the program. Courses taken for audit may not be included in the total number of units counted for eligibility or admission.
  • Completion of at least 12 earned units of undergraduate course work in the major at the UA.
  • Units still graded Incomplete, units graded Pass/Fail or units taken as audit will not count toward the requirement of the 12 undergraduate units in the major.
  • Completion or near completion of general education requirements.
  • Submission of a graduate application and payment of a graduate application fee.
  • Demonstration of the maturity necessary for success in an accelerated, highly competitive program.
  • Expectation to complete the undergraduate degree within four years. The undergraduate degree requirements must be completed before the student is eligible to have the Master's degree awarded.
  • Interested students should verify departmental requirements as they may have additional or more stringent requirements than the Graduate College minimum requirements.

Persistent link: https://grad.arizona.edu/catalog/programinfo/HISTMAHISTMAAMP
Last revised 16 Oct 2020
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