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Toledo, Univ. of

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Areas of Specialization:

Native American, public, American diplomatic/urban/labor, trans-Atlantic studies, early modern Europe

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 teach—including the use of instructional aids—but to provide them the opportunity to present lectures themselves and to review these with their fellow students and instructors.

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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.



University Information:

    University Type: Public

    Carnegie Institution Ranking: Doctoral/Research Universities—Extensive

    Department Demographics:

    First PhD conferred: 1972

    History PhDs conferred to Date: 63

    Relative Size Based on PhDs Conferred (2000–04): Medium [Explain]

    Faculty Mix:

    		 
     

    Full Professor

    14
     

    Associate Professor

    1
     

    Assistant Professor

    2
     

    Instructor/Lecturer
     

    Joint Appointment
     

    Emeritus Faculty

    6
     

    Part-time faculty

    3

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

    Number of Graduate Students in Program (Fall 2005): 73
    (Graduate student counts include those enrolled in terminal Master's degree program    )

    Proportion of Full-Time Graduate Students: 100%

    New Graduate Students Entering Program, Fall 2004: 11

    Relative Size Based on Graduate Student Enrollment (2002–04): Medium [Explain]

     

    Other Information

         Current Dissertations in Progress

         PhDs Conferred by Department

     

     

    Last Updated: December 7, 2009