History, BA/History, MA

Program Coordinator: M. Todd Bennett (319-A Brewster Building; 252-328-1033; bennettm@ecu.edu)

The History, BA/History, MA accelerated program is initiated while undergraduates are completing the bachelor’s degree in history and is intended for outstanding history undergraduates. Eligible students accepted into the program may count up to 12 semester hours of approved graduate coursework towards completion of both the undergraduate and graduate degrees.

ECU undergraduate history students with a 3.0 minimum cumulative GPA and a 3.5 minimum GPA in history courses may apply for admission to the accelerated program after completing a minimum of 75 eligible undergraduate semester hours. Students admitted to the accelerated program may begin taking graduate level courses while an undergraduate student. Permission to participate in graduate courses does not constitute admission into the graduate program. Students should apply for undergraduate graduation one semester prior to completing the undergraduate degree requirements and should apply for formal admission to the graduate program by the advertised application deadline for the desired term of admission. Complete instructions are found in the Admission and Readmission  section of the Graduate Catalog.

Students accepted into the accelerated program must earn a grade of B or above in all graduate coursework to continue in the accelerated program. Students who earn a C in any graduate course may still count that course toward the bachelor’s degree, but they will no longer be eligible to participate in the accelerated program or take graduate courses. Students may reapply for admission to the master’s program.

Undergraduate students accepted into the History, BA/History, MA accelerated program may count up to 12 semester hours in any combination from the following two sets of courses:

• HIST 5005 - Selected Topics  (for HIST 3005 - Special Topics in History)
• HIST 5135 - Problems in North Carolina History  (for HIST 3100 - North Carolina History)
• HIST 5220 - Selected Topics in US Women’s History  (for HIST 3140 - Women in American History)
• HIST 5230 - Themes in African American History  (for HIST 3110 - History of African-Americans)
• HIST 5470 - History of Soviet Russia Since 1917  (for HIST 3553 - Soviet Russia, 1917-1991)
• HIST 6020 - American Colonial History  (for HIST 3210 - Colonial America to 1763)
• HIST 6025 - American Revolution and Early Republic  (for HIST 3215 - American Revolution and the Federal Era, 1763-1800)
• HIST 6035 - Civil War  (for HIST 3225 - The Era of Sectionalism and Civil War, 1848-1877)
• HIST 6050 - The Great Depression, New Deal, and World War II  (for HIST 3240 - The Age of Franklin Roosevelt, 1919-1945)
• HIST 6055 - The United States Since 1945  (for HIST 3245 - The United States Since 1945)
• HIST 6170 - Native American Maritime History  (for HIST 4170 - Native American Maritime History)
• HIST 6181 - Diplomatic History of the United States Since 1898  (for HIST 3200 - Diplomatic History of the United States)
• HIST 6210 - War and Society  (for HIST 3350 - War and Society)
• HIST 6221 - American Military History to 1900  (for HIST 3121 - American Military History to 1900)
• HIST 6230 - Warfare and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome, 750 BC to 500 AD  (for HIST 3406 - War and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome)
• HIST 6260 - The United States and the Middle East, 1783 to the Present  (for HIST 3260 - The United States and the Middle East, 1783 to the Present)
• HIST 6350 - History of Ancient Greece  (for HIST 3405 - History of Ancient Greece to 146 BC)
• HIST 6355 - History of Ancient Rome  (for HIST 3410 - History of Ancient Rome)
• HIST 6360 - Medieval History  (for HIST 3415 - The Middle Ages)
• HIST 6370 - Nineteenth-Century European History  (for HIST 3430 - History of Europe, 1815-1914)
• HIST 6375 - Twentieth-Century European History  (for HIST 3435 - History of Europe Since 1914)
• HIST 6444 - The Old Regime, the French Revolution, and Napoleon  (for HIST 3444 - Old Regime and Revolutionary France)
• HIST 6500 - Africa and the Atlantic World  (for HIST 3840 - Africa and the Atlantic World)
• HIST 6580 - Women and Gender in the Middle East  (for HIST 3680 - Women and Gender in the Middle East)

Graduate elective courses:

• HIST 5122 - Social and Cultural History of the United States Since 1865  
• HIST 5130 - Comparative History of New World Slavery and Race Relations  
• HIST 5140 - The Old South  
• HIST 5141 - The South Since 1877  
• HIST 5300 - Comparative History of Non-Western Civilizations  
• HIST 5340 - The Ancient Near East  
• HIST 5350 - The Renaissance in European History  
• HIST 5360 - The Reformation, 1450-1598  
• HIST 5440 - Twentieth-Century England  
• HIST 5480 - Weimar and the Rise of Hitler  
• HIST 5505 - Maritime History to 1415  
• HIST 5520 - Maritime History Since 1815  
• HIST 5660 - Imperialism in Theory and Practice, 1800 to the Present  
• HIST 5680 - Diplomatic History of Modern Asia  
• HIST 5765 - Latin America, 1492 to the Present  
• HIST 5800 - Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade  
• HIST 5810 - Africa during the Colonial Era, 1884-1994  
• HIST 5830 - African Independence Movements of the Twentieth Century  
• HIST 5840 - Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa  
• HIST 5910 - Introduction to the Administration of Archives and Historical Manuscripts  
• HIST 5920 - Techniques of Museum and Historic Site Development  
• HIST 5930 - Field and Laboratory Studies in Museum and Historic Site Development  
• HIST 5960 - Introduction to Oral History  
• HIST 5985 - Historic Preservation Planning  
• HIST 6010 - Maritime History, 1415-1815  
• HIST 6030 - Jefferson, Jackson, and the Atlantic World  
• HIST 6155 - Gender and the Cold War  
• HIST 6525 - Sea Power  
• HIST 6570 - The Modern Middle East: The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries