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Faculty Searches. The department has completed on-campus visits by finalists in the search for a Japanese historian, and Suzanne O'Brien has been appointed to the position.
New History Major and Graduate Program. The newly revised concentration for undergraduates and the revisions of the graduate program in history are available on this website. See "Graduate Program" and "Undergraduate Program." All students who become undergraduate History majors or enter the graduate program after September 2007 must follow the new requirements.
Course Planning. The schedule of History courses for summer 2008 is available on this website (go to the Courses section), as is the schedule for 2008-09.
Course Areas. History concentrators must fulfill distribution requirements (that is, a certain number of courses in American, European, premodern, and world/regional history). For those concentrating in a specific field of history, both colloquia should be in that field. To that end, we now list the areas of all colloquia on the website--click on "Courses," then on the relevant semester, then on "With Descriptions." Or a list of all course areas is also available. The latter list indicates which courses count for the premodern requirement.
Department Newsletter. Past department newsletters are available (as PDFs) as follows:
Department Calendar. The website includes a department
calendar for the academic year. Special lectures, department meetings, etc., are listed, and
faculty, undergraduate concentrators, and graduate students may submit events to be added to the
calendar.
Information on Recent PhDs. A section of the website showing the department's recent PhD recipients is available.
Writing Guide. The department has composed a writing
guide specially geared for those writing papers in history. It deals with such topics as
- Defining primary sources
- Defining the precis, the critical essay, the research paper
- Finding a topic
- The writing process
- Plagiarism and how to avoid it
- Improving writing style
- Footnote and bibliography formats
Students may consult this guide on the "Courses" page of this website. It can be printed easily
for those who wish to do so.
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