Academic Master's and PhD

Curriculum

Academic Master’s Program
Students must take two required courses (History and Social Theory, and Methods and Techniques of Research), two elective courses, and two research seminars. The latter course is part of the preparation for the master’s thesis and is organized by the advisors. The course History and Social Theory, always offered in the first semester, discusses how the disciplines of history and the social sciences have enriched each other in past decades. The course emphasizes major topics where this connection has proved to be most fruitful: social history and the new political history, historical sociology, and cultural history. The course maps out recent theoretical debates in history and presents these debates to the master’s degree program students.

Academic PhD Program
Students must take one required course (Methods and Techniques of Research), two elective courses, and five research seminars, which may correspond to elective courses of a methodological nature or to seminars intended to support the dissertation research. The seminars are conducted by the advisors. For students without any background in the study of history, the course History and Social Theory — required in the master’s program — is also strongly recommended.