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In line with the Madonna University mission, the Master of Arts program in history is founded on intellectual inquiry and is intended to promote the professional, career, and personal goals of students with a respect for its diversity.
Collectively, our program reflects our commitment to enhance the historical understanding of all Americans, by strengthening the ability of graduate students to analyze and interpret the past. Historical study is intended to enlarge us, deepen us, and draw us out of ourselves, by bringing us into a serious encounter with the “strangeness—and the strange familiarity—of a past that is already part of us.” The program trains students to understand historical scholarship and research in all its major aspects, and to prepare them to serve their communities as professionals.
The curriculum is characterized by an explicit effort to consider course themes from diverse viewpoints, from within and without the cultures being explored. Additionally, the graduate curriculum seeks to maximize inclusion; i.e., including diverse groups with the holistic and scholarly study of human experience in time. The curriculum includes a study of United States history, Western Civilization, global history, and history as a scholarly discipline.
The curriculum emphasizes information literacy; i.e., the ability to find, assess, and use scholarly sources available through modern libraries and professional library faculty.
The History Department faculty members encourage and support the use of student foreign language skills and foreign study and travel to enhance and enrich their graduate historical studies.
Graduate students in the Department of History are mentored carefully in order to maximize the rewards of historical study, with full support from a faculty advisor and a team of university support personnel. Special attention is given to the graduate student’s professional goals and career plans.
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