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MEMORANDUM
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Senate
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Department of History
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Action undertaken by the Senate Graduate Studies Committee, at
its Meeting on June 22, 1987, gives rise to the following motion:
NOTION:
"That Senate approve and recommend approval to the Board
of Governors, as set forth in
S.87-48 ,
the proposed
change in the Department of History:
.
Delete: The Department will require a reading knowledge
of any language relevant to the student's research.
Students proposing to study Canadian History must
demonstrate an ability to read French.
Add:
Students will be required to demonstrate a reading
ability in one language, other than English, that
is acceptable to the Supervisory Committee. Students
proposing to study Canadian History must demonstrate
an ability to read French. Ability will be determined
by a time-limited examination consisting of the trans-
lation of a passage of history in the particular language.
A dictionary will be permitte&'
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B.P. Clayman
Dean of Graduate Studies.
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The History Department has recently adopted the
following minor, revisions to its Graduate Program. I assume
they will not need Senate approval?
1.
The second language requirement to be changed as follows:
From:
"The Department will require a reading knowledge of any
language relevant to the student's research. Students
proposing to study Canadian History must demonstrate an
ability to read French."
To:
"Students wil]. be required to demonstrate a reading ability
in one language, other than English, that is acceptable
to the supervisory committeee. Students proposing to
study Canadian History must demonstrate an ability to
read French. Ability will be determined by a time-limited
examination consisting of the translation of a passage
of history in the particular language. A dictionary
will be permitted.
2.
In future, applicants to the Ph.D. programme will be required
to submit an example of their written work.
3.
Remove Ph.D. "Thesis Areas of Specialization" from calendar.
Other minor editorial changes. [see attached].
J. I. Little
Chairman
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Graduate Studies Committee
Enclosures
S
I
0
LPh.D.
applicants
of their written
crgoing graduate
JTruSt'
sulrnit a sarrple
work
from
earlier or
studies.
m
i
ssi on of graduate Student)
Admison for M.A. students will be in the Fall semester only, and for
- Ph.D. students in either the Fall or Spring Semesters., Applications for
/
Fall admission should be completed.bY March 1 of that year, and
applications for Spring admission by October 15 of the previous year
MA
PROGRAM
CONDITIONS
OF ADMISSION
Candidates
fo r
the MA. degree
must
satisfy
the minimum entrance
requirements $et
by
the
univerulty namely,
at least
a
3.0 average
or Its
equivalent. In addition, the department
requires
a 3.25 average
or its
e
quivalent In the major
subject ov,r the
last
two years of
the
undergrad-
uate program. A degree
In
a discipline
r
e
lated
to
History
may be
a
cce
pted in some cases.
Programs of
Study
Upon admission
Into
the Graduale program,
each
student will be
assigned a supervisor. For
information of the supervisory committee
see
General Regulations.
page
211. AN candidates
for the MA. degree
must satisfy
the
following
minimum
requirements.
totalling 30 simes-
ter
hours:
1. 20
semester hours
of
course
work of
which at Isast
15
semester
hours must be in graduate courses
in the,
department
Each
year
at least
two
simmers of twO-ieflSStef length (ten
semester
hours) will
be
offered. one in
Canadian
History, the other In Euro-
pean History.
A third
twosemester
seminar may
be
offered in
another field when
student numbers
warrant
All students
will
be
required
to take at
least
one of
thee.
two part
sequences
of
courses, MIST 806 and
807.
or MIST 80$ and 809, or MIST 810 and
811. which will
be
available
in
the Fall
and
Spring semesters. The
remaining courses required
to
complete
the
degree
will be
offered, in
most
cases (with
the
exception of
History
800-5).
as
individual
single-semester
study
courses
(five semester hours
each). Students with
significant
financial
support
fiom fellow-
ships or scholarships will
be expe cte
d
to
take
a
full course
bed
each semester;
those with T.A.shipi
or
R.A.ahips
may extend
their course load over a
maximum
of three semesters, but will be
expected to
begin
thesis research in the third semester.
2.
A thesis of 10 semester hourIX beginning
the
research
semester, the student must
prepare
a thesis prospectus
which
Indicates the nature of the problem. the availability and
accessi-
bility
of the relevant materials.
etc.
After consultation
with the
senior supefvisor, the prospectus must
be
submitted to. meet-
ing of the
supervisory committee
for
its
suggestions and
approval.
Under
certain circumstances, the department may
consent
to
the
awarding of
the M.A.
degree on
the
basis
of
course work
and
extended
• essays only. In place of the
thesis,
the candidate
must
complete an
additional ten semester hours
in
course work
and
must
submit to the
Examining Committee
three extended euays.
based on
course work.
Language Requirement)
.
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Thedepertment
will
require a
reading
krtow1dge of
an
nguage
-.f
reIevantth..he students research
Students
pçoposing
to^UdY
Can
dian H
,
jioryust demonstrate an
ability
to read
trench.
The Department of Languages.
Literatures
and
Linguistics offers
courses to heigGraduats
students
to
meet
language requirement).
PH.D. PROGRAM
General
Prospective candidat
es
for the
Ph.D.
degree should be
advised that
the degree is granted in
recognition
of the student's general grasp of
•:. the subject matter of a broad area of study;
for his/her
ability to
think
3
-ritic.11y; and for his/her power to analyse
and
ooditi*le probi
m
e ut
d
.'
its from allied
fields
Of
stu Throug
tpth.
student
rnuit
fledge, either
thve4h
the
discovery
and alysis new Information
through the exe
g
• .:.1
student ordinarily will be admitted
to the
Ph.D.
program after
completion
of an M
.
A. or
Its equivalent Applicants with a B.A. applying
directly to the Ph.D.
program must
have at
least a 3.5 CPA or
its
equiva-
lent. Candidates for the M.A. degree at SF1.1. after successful completion
•. of two semesters and a CPA of 3.5
in
10 semester hours of
course-work
with a maxinuTi
l en
gth of 100 pages.
Throughhis/her thesis the student nust
demonstrate his/her ability to
make an
original contribution to knowledge,
either thrc4i the discovery and analysis
of new information or through the exercise
of independent critical power.
Students will be required to demonstrate
a reading ability in
one
language, other
than English, that is acceptable to the
supervisory ccitmittee. Students proposing
to study Canadian History must dewstrate
an ability to read French. Ability will
be determined by a tine-limited exami.naticii
consisting of a passage in the particular
language.. A
dictionary will
be permitted.
4oJ
Students m y apply who wish to prepare a in one of the follow.
log area, of spec(alization:
Cole
I and E1ropean Background to Ccl rdalism and Imperialism
hn
Eupp.an Expansion Into th Americas. 1500-1800
$tuo:
Eurãpean Expansion Into the Near East and North
A ¼ sca, 1898-1914
Europn Expansion Into ub-Saharan Africa to 1919
Colonia am and lmperi ism In British Settlement Colo-
nies,
1950
lmp.rlalis and No
lonislism In Modem Latin
Amelics
Conceptions V Imper sham and Colonialism
• .
Imperialism a Col nialism in International Relations
Imperialism In e h Century Middle East and North
Africa
Colonialism an Imperialism and the Problems of
• Development
The Mandates a
ter-War Imperialism
CanadIan
British Colum
Stud ; ..:
British North
erica a Confederation
Canada Since onf.de tion
Afro-Asian
Aspects of e Indigo us History of Sub-Saharan
Stud.s:
Africa
Moderniza on in the Midd East and North Africa, 19th
and r 2 Centuries
European
Europea International Relat na since the Early 19th
Studios:
Con ry
Euro n Social History since th 17th Century
Germ
since the 18th Century
Russi: Late Imperial; Early Bolsh 1k Foreign Policy
Program of Study
.
-*but students are expected to particip
in the revelant graduate seminar.
Upon admission into the graduate program, each student will be
assigned a faculty supervisor. For information of the Supervisory om-
mi
ee
t3 .nara/Ragu/etions.
page 211. The Supervisory Committee
an student shall determine three fields of study, at least two of
whicn will be chosen from the list printed below. A third field may be
chosen within or outside the Department of History with permission of
the Graduate Studies Committee. The student and each field supervisor
will agree as soon as possible upon a general list of readings upon
which the field examination will be based. No formal course wojJ(j5
required.'Th.written examihatióWs ir the three fiiidi'il1biiken In
one two'-week period and an oral comprehensive exam will follow
within one month. Each written examination will be three hours in
length, and will consist of two or three questions to be chosen from
a
broader list. A "fall". "pass", or "pass with distinction" will be assigned
to each field by the field supervisor after the completion of the oral
examination. A student who tails one of the fields, and one only, will be
permitted to sit that examination onceagain. This examination will be
in written form only, with a second reader chosen from the Supervisory
Committee. The field examinations will normally be taken during the
student's fourth semester of enrolment in the Ph.D. program. •
Canada: pre-1850
Canada: post-1850
France since 1789
Germany since the 18th Century
Russia since Peter the Great
The British Isles since 1485
European International Relations since the Early 19th Century
European Social History
European Cultural History
Women and the Family in North America and Europa
State and Society.ln the Nineteenth Century Ottoman Empire
State and Society in the Twentieth Century Middle East
Imperialism and Diplomacy in the Middle East
British and Modern India
Su'
aran Africa since Ca. 1800
Eu,. an Settlement inAfrica
United States to 1890
United States since 1890
Colonial Latin America
Latin America Since Independence
Through his/her thesis the student must
demonstrate his/her ability to make an
original contribution to knowledge,
either through the discovery and analysis
of new information or through the exercise
of independent critcial power.
