Define navigation bar settings. It offers exceptionally strong training in the fields of social, labor, and women's history. The Department cooperates closely with a host of inter-disciplinary programs to offer students additional instruction in comparative and world history perspectives.
Doctoral candidates take a comprehensive oral examination covering one major and two minor fields.
The department offers five major regional fields. Each of these may also be a minor field. There are five additional regional minor fields and twelve thematic and comparative minor fields. Students may prepare a specially designed alternative minor field or convert one of the minor thematic and comparative fields to a major field. An M.A. degree may be earned in any of the major and minor regional fields listed below.