History, B.A. with accelerated 4+1 M.A. in Applied History

Students pursuing a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History (any concentration) have the opportunity to pursue an accelerated Master’s Degree in Applied History.  Qualified students will enter the university as first-year students or transfer students in the Bachelor of Arts in History program with provisional admission to the graduate program in Applied History. Current students can choose to pursue the 4 + 1 B.A./M.A. program any time prior to the start of their senior year at the university (two semesters before graduation/90 credits completed). For students on a four-year track, they would start the program during the fall of their senior year. All students seeking to enroll in the program must be admitted to the graduate program and have at least a 3.0 grade point average at the time they would begin the accelerated program.

Students will complete one 400-level or 500-level graduate course during each of their last two undergraduate semesters.  Those courses will be double-counted towards both the B.A. and M.A. degree upon successful completion of graduate coursework. Students will then complete two additional semesters of full-time graduate work (9 graduate credits per semester), and a six-credit graduate internship the following summer to complete both degrees.