Academic Catalog 2024-2025

Slippery Rock University

History, Master of Arts (MA)

Curriculum Guide

Required Course
HIST 604Historiography3
Course Selection
Select 27 credits from the following with at least one course in each geographic region:27
United States
Hispanic American History to 1815
The United States in the Twentieth Century
Public History: Theory and Practice
Colonial America, 1607-1763
The American Revolution
The Civil War and Reconstruction
The American West
Native Americans
American Constitutional History Through 1865
American Constitutional History Since 1865
The Early National Era
US Industrialism and Reform, 1887-1914
US Foreign Policy
Pennsylvania History
Latin America, Asia, Middle East, and Africa
The Ancient Near East
The Modern Middle East
History of Medicine
Political Violence in Latin America
The Spanish Borderlands in North America
Mexico and the Southern Cone
The Arabs and Israel
Twentieth-Century Africa
Contemporary China
Selected Topics
Europe
Renaissance and Reformation
Enlightenment and Revolution, 1715-1815
Pennsylvania
Material Culture and Historical Interpretation
Ancient Roman History and Legacy
Ancient Greece
Tudor-Stuart England
Modern Britian
Modern Germany
Russia in the Twentieth Century
Women in History
Medieval Europe
Comprehensive Exam
Successful completion of a comprehensive exam.
Total Hours30

Important Curriculum Guide Notes

This Curriculum Guide is provided to help SRU students and prospective students better understand their intended major curriculum. Enrolled SRU students should note that the My Rock Audit may place already-earned and/or in progress courses in different, yet valid, curriculum categories. Enrolled SRU students should use the My Rock Audit Report and materials and information provided by their faculty advisers to ensure accurate progress towards degree completion. The information on this guide is current as of the date listed. Students are responsible for curriculum requirements at the time of enrollment at the University.

PASSHE - Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Institutions

Major Code: 9A44
Revised 07.09.2021
UCC 03..02.2021