MA/MS in History

The graduate history program at Providence College leads to a master's degree in history. Students work closely with a faculty advisor, and a formal mentoring relationship is set up by the beginning of the second term. The degree centers on thirty credits across ten courses, including a required three-credit course in historical methodology. Students choose between a non-thesis route and a thesis route. The thesis route reduces coursework to twenty-four credits and adds a six-credit thesis written under a professor's direction, with a three-person committee, a proposal meeting, and a defense. Finished theses are digitized and placed online. Graduates are prepared for work in academia, research, public history, and related fields, drawing on a stronger grasp of historical narratives.