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University of Toledo

Dept. of History
Mail Stop 503
2801 W. Bancroft St.
Toledo, OH 43606-3390

Phone 419.530.2845
Fax 419.530.4539
E-mail: woneal@utoledo.edu

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Areas of Specialization:

Europe, Latin America, Public, and U.S.

Program Description

A special strength of the department's doctoral program is its emphasis on training students in the methods of pedagogy. All full-time doctoral students must take Teaching History in College, preferably during the first semester of study. The class is designed not only to teach students how to teachincluding the use of instructional aidsbut to provide them the opportunity to present lectures themselves and to review these with their fellow students and instructors.

Special Programs or Resources

No information provided

Financial Aid

A limited number of graduate assistantships are awarded each year.

Degree Requirements

The doctor of philosophy degree in history requires a minimum of 62 hours beyond the master's degree, including 24 hours for the dissertation. Doctoral students must complete four seminars, a course in historiography and a teaching workshop.

Qualifying Exams:
General Field: The student must stand for examination, written and oral, over one general field, such as U.S. history or Europe since 1600.

Topical Major Area: The student must stand for examination in one major area of concentration. This normally will be the area in which the student will write the dissertation and in which the student has had course and seminar work.

Topical Minor Area: The student will be examined in a minor area outside the general field. Selection of this field will be made by the student and the director of graduate studies.

Foreign Language Exam: Students seeking admission to the Ph.D. program in history are expected to have completed four semesters of undergraduate study in one language. All students must demonstrate language competency by the end of their first year of study: successful completion of a foreign language exam, normally administered by the department of foreign languages or successful completion, with a grade of B or better, of one foreign language course, numbered 3000 or higher, conducted in the language.



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Faculty Information (Fall 2011):

Full-time Faculty: 8

Relative Size based on Number of Full-time Faculty: Small [Explain]

 

Student Demographics (Fall 2011):

Number of Doctoral Students in Program: 11

New Doctoral Students Entering Program: 0

Proportion of Doctoral Students Receiving Financial Aid: 70%

Number of Graduate Students Enrolled: 37

Relative Size Based on Graduate Student Enrollment: Small [Explain]

 

Degree Information:

First PhD conferred: 1972

History PhDs conferred to Date: 82

Number of PhDs Conferred (2011–12): 4

Relative Size Based on PhDs Conferred: Medium [Explain]

Current Dissertations in Progress

PhDs Conferred by Department

 

 

Last Updated: October 19, 2012