Graduate Calendar Archives: 2001 / 2002

History

The Department

Associate Supervisor, To be announced

The Department of History offers programs of study leading to the Master of Arts degree in History, with concentration in the following areas: History of Women, Gender and Family, Canadian, American, British, modern French, modern Russian, international (diplomatic), medieval, and European intellectual and social history. It also offers a program of study and research leading to the Doctor of Philosophy degree in history with a concentration in Canadian history or History of Women, Gender and Family.

Master of Arts

Admission Requirements

The minimum requirement for admission to the master's program is an Honours bachelor's degree (or the equivalent) with at least high honours standing.

The Department offers no qualifying-year program; applicants with a general (3 year) degree may be considered for admission into the fourth year of Carleton's B.A.(Honours) program.

Program Requirements

Candidates may follow either a thesis or a non-thesis program, as follows:

* History 24.587, 24.588 or 24.589: a seminar or tutorial in the historiography of the appropriate country or area (1.0 credit)

* History 24.500: a practicum in the applied uses of history (1.0 credit). Another graduate history seminar may be substituted for this course by students who have had extensive work-related experiences in some historical field.

* A graduate history seminar in the student's major field of concentration (1.0 credit)

* Either History 24.599: thesis (2.0 credits) or

* History 24.598: research essay (1.0 credit) plus one additional seminar (1.0 credit), which may be chosen from those offered at the graduate or 400-level by the Department of History, by another department at Carleton University, or by the Department of History at the University of Ottawa

* M.A. students are required to submit thesis or research essay proposals to the graduate supervisor early in their second term of full-time enrollment.

Guidelines for Completion of Master's Degree

Full-time students are expected to finish all requirements for the degree except 24.598 or 24.599 during their first two terms of study; part-time students should do so during their first twelve terms of study. The research essay or thesis requirement is designed to take both categories of students an additional two or three terms, respectively.

Language Requirements

All candidates are required to demonstrate a reading knowledge of a language other than English, the choice to depend upon the field of the candidate's thesis or research. For seminars dealing with sources not in English, a reading knowledge of the appropriate language will be required before acceptance into the program. Details may be obtained from the supervisor of graduate studies.

Doctor of Philosophy

Admission Requirements

Applicants with an M.A. degree will be expected to have at least high honours standing. Applicants for the History of Women, Gender and Family program will be expected to have at least one of their earlier degrees in history.

An applicant with an Honours bachelor's degree who has achieved an outstanding academic record and, in addition, exhibits very strong motivation and high promise for advanced research, may be admitted to the Canadian Ph.D. program directly. Such candidates will be required to complete at least 15.0 credits.

Residence Requirement

The normal residence requirement for the Ph.D. degree is a minimum of three years of full-time study after the B.A. (Honours) degree, or two years after the M.A. degree.

Program Requirements

Candidates will be responsible for three fields: a major field (Canadian history or History of Women, Gender and Family) and two minor fields. In the case of Canadian history majors, at least one of the minor fields must concern American, British, French, Russian, or international history. In the case of History of Women, Gender and Family majors, at least one of the minor fields must concern American, British, Canadian, French, Russian, or international history. History of Women, Gender and Family majors must declare their area of concentration from among these fields. The second minor field for both majors may be a transnational topic or in a related discipline. In each instance, the minor field should cover approximately one century. Written examinations will be taken in the two minor fields before the end of the student's second term of study; an oral examination in the major field will be arranged during the student's fourth term. Ph.D. candidates are required to submit a thesis proposal to the graduate supervisor within three months of completing their oral examination.

A reading knowledge of French will be required. The language examination will be written early in the first post-M.A. year, and before the candidate is permitted to take the doctoral field examinations. Proven competence in an additional language may be required if it is pertinent to the candidate's program.

Students entering the 15-credit Canadian history program with a B.A.(Honours) will normally complete in their first year:

* History 24.588

* History 24.591

* History 24.592

* Two other graduate seminars

They will then join students entering the Canadian history program with a completed M.A. degree, who will normally be required to follow:

* History 24.688

* History 24.690 Ph.D. oral comprehensive examination in Canadian history; in conjunction with

* History 24.694 Ph.D. Tutorials

* Two of: History 24.610; 24.640; 24.650; 24.660; 24.693; an approved course of studies in a related discipline. At least one of these must be a national history other than Canadian (i.e. 24.610, 24.640, or 24.650).

Students declaring a major field in History of Women, Gender and Family will normally be required to follow:

* History 24.688

* History 24.692 Ph.D. oral comprehensive examination in History of Women, Gender and Family; in conjunction with

* History 24.695 Ph.D. Tutorials

* Two of: History 24.610; 24.640; 24.650; 24.660; 24.691: an approved course of studies in a related discipline. At least one of these must be a national history (i.e., 24.610, 24.640, 24.650, or 24.691).

With other requirements completed, doctoral students will be required to write a thesis on a topic related to Canadian history or History of Women, Gender and Family history (5.0 credits).

Guidelines for Completion of Doctoral Degree

It is expected that full-time students will complete the thesis requirement within two years, and part-time students within four years.

University of Ottawa

A Carleton University student may take one seminar in the Department of History at the University of Ottawa, with permission of the two departments.

Graduate Courses

Not all of the following courses are offered in a given year. For an up-to-date statement of course offerings for 2001-2002, please consult the Registration Instructions and Class Schedule booklet published in the summer.

F,W,S indicates term of offering. Courses offered in the fall and winter are followed by T. The number following the letter indicates the credit weight of the course: 1 denotes 0.5 credit, 2 denotes 1.0 credit.

Admission to graduate seminars in the Department of History is normally restricted to graduate students in the Department and to others who have successfully completed two full upper-level undergraduate History courses, or the equivalent, in the general area of the seminar, or who have received permission of the

History 24.500T2

Practicum in Applied History

Study of the practical uses of history in such fields as teaching and methodology, archival management, museum research, oral history, journal editing, quantitative investigations, and contract research.

History 24.506T2

Medieval Intellectual History

An examination of selected aspects of medieval intellectual history. Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as History 24.406, for which additional credit is precluded.

History 24.525T2

Society and Culture in Canada, 1850-1939

Changes to the structure and values of Canadian societies and their culture in the period of urban-industrial transition.

History 24.526T2

Perspectives on State Formation in Canada

An exploration of selected problems of political history: the construction of official statistics, the language of governments, the invention of nationalisms, the making of political cultures, the autonomy of the state, the practices of bureaucrats, the political role of women, the encounter of the welfare state and families, the political economy of the state, communities and the state. Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as History 24.426, for which additional credit is precluded.

History 24.530T2

Canadian Immigration and Ethnic History

An examination of immigration and ethnic history in a selected period between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries. Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as History 24.424, for which additional credit is precluded.

History 24.531T2

French Canada Since Confederation

A study of topics relating to the political and social history of French Canada and to problems of cultural duality.

History 24.532T2

Ontario in the Nineteenth Century

History 24.533T2

Intellectual History of Canada

An intensive examination of selected aspects of Canadian thought from the early nineteenth century to the present.

History 24.534T2

Problems of Growth and War in Canada, 1896-1921

History 24.535T2

The Canadian Diplomatic Tradition

An examination of the origins, evolution, context, and intellectual content of Canadian diplomatic practices and policies.

History 24.540T2

The Age of the American Revolution

History 24.556T2

Historical Perspectives on Power

An inquiry into historical analyses of politics in light of the current social philosophical conceptions of power and consciousness, with reference to early modern England, and/or Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and/or Latin America in the late colonial period, with particular emphasis on Mexico, depending on the instructor(s).

History 24.557T2

Community in Early Modern England, 1450-1600

History 24.558T2

Culture and Society in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Britain: Selected Topics

History 24.559T2

Women in Nineteenth- and Twentieth- Century North America and Britain

An examination of the role and image of women in the context of social and economic development and of the family in North America and Britain.

History 24.560T2

Revolutionary Russia, 1898-1921

An examination of various primary sources available for research on revolutionary Russia. A sound reading knowledge of Russian is required for admission.

History 24.562T2

M.S. Gorbachev and the Collapse of the USSR

A study of the main reasons for the collapse of the USSR, with emphasis on the CPSU, Soviet ideological presumption, and its participation in the international arena. The nature of the USSR in the 1980s and Gorbachev's attempts at sweeping reform and their consequences provide the setting for this study.

History 24.580T2

Problems in International History

History 24.587T2

Historiography: Women, Gender and Family

Intensive study of selected problems in the writing of the history of women, gender and family.

History 24.588T2

Historiography of Canada

A seminar, primarily for graduate students in Canadian history, which examines the trends and methods of Canadian historical writing and the influences upon it.

History 24.589T2

Historiography

A course of directed studies, leading to an oral comprehensive examination, in one of the following fields:

Modern France

The intensive study of selected problems in the writing of modern French political and social history.

Britain

The intensive study of a range of selected problems in the writing of sixteenth-century or nineteenth-century English history.

Modern Russia

Concentrated reading in Russian history and historiography with emphasis on the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

United States

A course in which the trends and methods of historical writing on the United States will be examined.

International History

A course in which the trends and methods of historical writing on international history will be examined.

Medieval History

Historical method and historiography of an aspect of the Middle Ages.

European Intellectual and Social History

Intensive study of a selected topic in the writing of European intellectual or social history during the seventeenth, eighteenth, or nineteenth centuries.

History 24.591T2, S2

Directed Studies in a Canadian Field

A program of supervised reading and preparation of written work in an area not covered by an existing graduate seminar.

History 24.592T2, S2

Directed Studies in a Non-Canadian Field

A program of supervised reading and preparation of written work in an area not covered by an existing graduate seminar.

History 24.593F1, W1, S1

Directed Studies in a Canadian Field

A program of supervised reading and preparation of written work in an area not covered by an existing graduate seminar.

History 24.594F1, W1, S1

Directed Studies in a Non-Canadian Field

A program of supervised reading and preparation of written work in an area not covered by an existing graduate seminar.

History 24.595F1,W1

Selected Topics in a Canadian Field

A seminar in an area not covered by an existing graduate course.

History 24.596F1,W1

Selected Topics in a Non-Canadian Field

A seminar in an area not covered by an existing graduate course.

History 24.598F2, W2, S2

M.A. Research Essay

An examination of an approved topic in Canadian, American, British, modern French, modern Russian, international, or medieval history.

History 24.599F4, W4, S4

M.A. Thesis

A substantial historical investigation. The subject will be determined in consultation with the Department, and a supervisor will be assigned. The candidate will be examined orally after presenting his/her thesis.

History 24.610T2, S2

Directed Studies

Preparation for a minor field examination in one of the following areas of modern European history: France, Russia, and international history.

History 24.640T2, S2

Directed Studies in United States History

History 24.650T2, S2

Directed Studies in British History

History 24.660T2, S2

Directed Studies in a Transnational Topic

Preparation for a minor field examination in an area not covered in another doctoral course.

History 24.688T2

Historical Theory and Method

A course primarily for doctoral candidates in history, offered in alternate years, in which current trends in historical theory and methodology will be examined.

History 24.690F1

Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination

Ph.D. oral comprehensive examination in Canadian history. The exam is undertaken in the student's fourth term.

History 24.691T2

Canadian History Minor

A program of supervised reading in Canadian history leading to a written comprehensive examination for doctoral students whose major field is History of Women, Gender and Family. Students will attend History 24.694 in the fall and winter terms.

History 24.692F1

Ph.D. Comprehensive Examination

Ph.D. oral comprehensive examination in History of Women, Gender and Family. The exam is undertaken in the student's fourth term.

History 24.693T2

History of Women, Gender and Family Minor

A program of supervised reading in History of Women, Gender and Family leading to a written comprehensive examination for doctoral students whose major field is Canadian history. Students will attend History 24.695 in the fall and winter terms.

History 24.694F1, W1, S1

Ph.D. Tutorials

A program of supervised reading with several instructors in preparation for the Ph.D. oral examination in Canadian history. Students must complete three terms (F, W & S) of this course before sitting the oral comprehensive examination.

History 24.695F1, W1, S1

Ph.D. Tutorials

A program of supervised reading with several instructors in preparation for the Ph.D. oral examination in History of Women, Gender and Family. Students must complete three terms (F, W & S) of this course before sitting the oral comprehensive examination.

History 24.699F, W, S

Ph.D. Thesis