Overview
Learning Outcomes
Graduates of this History program from Kent State University will be able to:
- Analyze secondary sources in a variety of areas of historical specialization and participate actively and positively in discussions of those sources
- Read and master the formative as well as the most significant recent scholarship in their particular areas of focus
- Construct effective and analytical book reviews, comparative review essays and historiographical pieces with a high level of proficiency, particularly when it comes to integrating various historical works together into an analytical/argumentative whole
- Form their own judgments about secondary historical works and the historiographical fields of which they are part
- Analyze a wide array of primary sources in a sophisticated manner; and integrate these sources with secondary sources in order to make an original historical argument
- Demonstrate an ability to conceptualize, research and write book reviews, annotated bibliographical essays, historiographical essays and seminar papers
- Produce a professional-quality book-length piece of rigorous academic work
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Courses include:
- Teaching World History
- Historiography
- Writing Seminar in History
- American History From Precontact Native America Through the Civil War
- American History From the Civil War to the Present
- Between Plows and Swords: U.s.-china Cultural Relations Since the Late 1700s
- Revolution and Reform: the Depression Era and the Transformation of American Society
- High-life History: African Urban Cultural Histories
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General requirements
- Master's degree from an accredited college or university in history or related discipline
- Minimum 3.000 GPA on a 4.000-point scale
- Official transcript(s)
- GRE scores
- Goal statement describing professional objectives and proposed field of study
- Significant piece of written work;
- Three letters of recommendation (preferably academic)
- English language proficiency
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9898 USD/yearTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 9898 USD per year
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