The History Department offers a Master of Arts degree with a major in social sciences. The department also offers graduate courses in history which may be taken by students enrolled in this master of arts degree program.
This multi-disciplinary degree gives professionals in education, business,
and government the opportunity to develop their own program of study.
Options and flexibility are kept at the maximum level possible, allowing professionals in education, urban affairs, criminal justice, gerontology, international trade and commerce, or other fields, to earn a graduate degree in a career field.
Individuals seeking admission as degree students in this curriculum must comply with the general admission requirements for the School of Graduate Studies, or those in the latest Catalogue.
This curriculum contains both a thesis program and a non-thesis program. Each requires a minimum of 36 earned semester hours of graduate credit as a partial requirement of the degree.
These credits must be earned as follows:
* Not all areas of the social sciences are currently available for use as primary or secondary social sciences fields. Interested students should contact the chairperson of the History and Anthropology Department to determine areas available.
** Students registering for Thesis must submit, with registration materials, an application for authorization to enroll for Thesis. They may obtain the application, which must be signed by the advisor, at the Office of Graduate Studies.
Students not completing the thesis must complete a non-credit research project.
SOURCE: EUP Graduate Catalogue.