The Department of History offers
graduate work leading to the Master of Arts degree
involving 36 hours of course work (roughly 12
courses). Students may opt for a traditional Masters
in History, for which they write a thesis, for a
Masters in Public History, for which they complete a
public history internship/project, or for a
combination of both of these tracks.
The history department offers graduate work in regional
fields encompassing Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States. The
department also offers graduate level course work in women's history,
environmental history, and the history of science and medicine. In addition,
the department offers graduate preparation in broad thematic fields that are
comparative and interdisciplinary in approach. These fields are as follows:
Borders, Boundaries and Frontiers, Nature
and Society, Myth,
Memory, and History, Modernity
and Its Discontents
Applying to the Graduate Program in
History
NMSU History Graduate
Student Manual
Publishing an Article: Journals
for Graduate Students in History
College of Arts and Sciences
Department of History
Graduate Studies in History at New Mexico State University