Plan Your Education
How to Apply
Please contact Graduate Program Director Olivia Weisser for application information and requirements.
Deadline & Cost
Deadlines: April 15 for fall
Application Fee: The nonrefundable application fee is $75. UMass Boston alumni and current students that plan to complete degree requirements prior to graduate enrollment can submit the application without paying the application fee.
Program Cost Information: Bursar's website
Curriculum
Required Courses (6 Credits)
- HIST 600 - Research and Methods 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 605 - Introduction to Historiography 3 Credit(s)
Electives (9 Credits)
Complete three from below.
- HIST 602L - Historical Sequence I: American Society and Political Culture: 1600-1865 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 620 - Introduction to Public History and Popular Memory 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 625 - Interpreting History in Public Approaches to Public History Practice 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 626 - Introduction to Archives and Information Management 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 627 - Archival Methods and Practices 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 630 - Transforming Archives and History in the Digital Era 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 636 - Weimar Germany 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 638 - World War I 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 639 - World War II 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 641 - Socialism: The International History of a Revolutionary Idea 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 642 - Fascism 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 644 - Topics on the History of the American Revolution 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 664 - Boston History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 667 - The Progressive Era 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 668 - Age of FDR: Depression, War, and the Birth of Modern America 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 670 - Cold War America, 1945-1989 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 681 - Topics in European History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 682 - Topics in American History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 685 - Topics in Atlantic History 3 Credit(s)
- HIST 687 - Genealogy and Family History 3 Credit(s)
Graduation Criteria
Program Requirements
Complete 15 credits from five courses including two required courses and three electives.
Statute of limitations: Five years
Contact
Graduate Program Director Olivia Weisser
Olivia.Weisser [at] umb.edu
(617) 287-6860
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The History Department equips students for success by exploring how past societies grappled with complex challenges. It explores how people have structured & managed their relationships with one another; how and why those structures and relationships changed over time; and how globalization has shaped life, identity, opportunity, and justice. Studying history deepens our understanding of the human condition and of how the past continues to shape our lives today.
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