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Randi Storch, chair
Old Main, Room 212
607-753-2723
Fax: 607-753-5598
www.cortland.edu/history/

School

Arts and Sciences

Faculty

John Aerni-Flessner, Girish Bhat, Benjamin deLee, Laura Gathagan, Scott Moranda, Gigi Peterson, Amy Schutt, John Shedd, Kevin Sheets, Randi Storch, Brett Troyan, Judith Van Buskirk, Luo Xu

Adjunct Faculty

For a listing of adjunct faculty see the Faculty and Administration  section of this catalog.

Program Descriptions and Admission Requirements

Master of Arts in History  with a concentration in either United States, European or non-Western history
Master of Science in Education in Adolescence Education: Social Studies (7-12)  with a concentration in history

The Master of Arts in history will benefit you if you are seeking a terminal M.A. or if you intend to go on for a Ph.D. in history at another institution. If you have an initial certificate or a provisional license in teaching secondary social studies, the M.A. in history will help you gain professional or permanent certification.

The Master of Science in Education in adolescence education: social studies is for you if you are teaching or intend to teach social studies in grades 7-12 and are seeking a professional certificate or permanent certification.

Special Features

• History Honor Society
• History Club
• Small graduate reading and writing seminars

Programs

• Adolescence Education: Social Studies (7-12) [SSA] M.S.Ed. - History Concentration
• History [HIS] M.A.

Courses

• HIS 509 - Issues in New York State History
• HIS 523 - Issues in History of the American West
• HIS 524 - Issues in 19th Century U.S. History
• HIS 525 - Issues in the United States Civil War
• HIS 528 - Issues in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement
• HIS 529 - Special Topics in History
• HIS 530 - Issues in African-American History
• HIS 531 - Issues in African History
• HIS 532 - Issues in European History since 1500
• HIS 533 - Issues in Asian History
• HIS 538 - Teaching About Nazi Germany and the Holocaust
• HIS 545 - Issues in Women’s History
• HIS 550 - Issues in Early-American History
• HIS 621 - Historiography of U.S. Women
• HIS 622 - U. S. Labor Radicalism
• HIS 629 - Special Topics in History
• HIS 630 - Historiography of Modern China
• HIS 635 - Historiography of the American Revolution
• HIS 640 - Historiography of the French Revolution
• HIS 645 - Law and Society in Russia and the Soviet Union
• HIS 646 - Issues in American Labor and Working-Class History
• HIS 648 - History and Philosophy of History
• HIS 650 - Readings in History
• HIS 660 - Seminar in American History
• HIS 661 - Seminar in European History
• HIS 663 - Seminar in Latin American History
• HIS 687 - Culminating Master’s Experience
• HIS 697 - Extension of Graduate Culminating Activity

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