Regardless of which option is selected, the candi- date for the M.A. must publicly defend the thesis or project at an oral examination scheduled by his or her advisory committee. Selected themes from colonial times to the present. The nature and meaning of the national experience, customs, traditions and intellectual developments. HY 151, HY 152 recommended. A study of major historians and schools of historical interpretation from Ancient Greece to the twentieth century.
Discussion concentrates on written history and the problems of interpretation.
Oral and written participation and a major paper are required. Selected topics in the History of Western thought beginning with the Classical Greeks through the present era. A study of intellectual and cultural trends reflected in the western philosophical tradition, both secular and religious. Selected topics dealing with the problems and possibilities of the historical study of societies other than one's own, with special reference to Africa, Asia and Latin America. Studies of the principal themes or problems within well-defined periods of particular fields of U.S. History.