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).
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 of Social & Behavioral Sciences
University of Arizona - Main - Tucson
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!
No Standardized Tests are required.
The Department of History does not offer financial assistance for the Accelerated Master's program.
Domestic Applicants:
Spring semester of your Junior Year: March 1st
International Applicants:
Spring semester of your Junior Year: March 1st
International applicants will not be considered for conditional admission by this program.
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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.
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)
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.
Please refer to the Graduate Student Handbook for students who are pursuing this program of study.
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: