The Master's program in History stresses training in both the methods and literature of history, with major emphasis on students' exposure to the broad array of historical methodologies that enable historians to analyze and understand the past.
Emphasizing global approaches to historical study, the program encourages students to think beyond national boundaries, comparatively, and in terms of themes that span geographically dispersed areas of the world, such as trade, migration, the global environment, state formation, or colonialism.