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Kevin Sheets, chair
Scott Moranda, graduate coordinator
Old Main, Room 212
607-753-2723
Fax: 607-753-5598
cortland.edu/history

School of Arts and Sciences

Faculty

Girish Bhat, Danielle Candelora, Evan Faulkenbury, Laura Gathagan, Jared McBrady, Celeste McNamara, Scott Moranda, Gigi Peterson, Amy Schutt, Kevin Sheets, Randi Storch, Brett Troyan, Bekeh Ukelina, Luo Xu

Adjunct Faculty

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

Degrees and Admission Requirements

Master of Arts in History  with a concentration in either

• United States
• European
• Asian, Latin American, African, Middle Eastern history or
• in the Scholarship on the Teaching and Learning of 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.

Special Features

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

Programs

• 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 560 - Teaching U.S. History
• HIS 561 - Teaching Global 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 636 - Trends in Latin American Historiography
• HIS 637 - Cultural History of Latin America
• 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 647 - Scholarship on the Teaching and Learning of 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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