ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

The Graduate Program

The History Department's Graduate Program offers both a Ph.D. in History and a Master of Arts in Global, International, and Comparative History. There are two joint-degree programs: Arab Studies, leading to an M.A. in Arab Studies/Ph.D. in History; and German and European Studies, leading to an M.A. in German and European Studies/Ph.D. in History. There is also the M.S.F.S./M.A. in History offered jointly with the School of Foreign Service.

The Undergraduate Program

The Georgetown History Department offers a rich choice of courses to undergraduate students. The Department is unusually varied in the areas it covers: our large Faculty includes specialists on virtually every major region in the world, and we offer courses at both the introductory and the advanced levels on all periods of history and most areas of the world. We also offer many courses that present thematic, comparative, and global perspectives. Majors and minors enjoy considerable freedom to focus their work on their own areas of interest and to design programs that complement the rest of their academic work; students from all other majors can also easily link history courses with their studies in politics, international affairs, literature, world cultures, the arts, and the social sciences.

To find out more, read the instructions for History Majors and Minors and the most current information about regional distribution requirements for majors. For information about applying non-Georgetown history courses to the undergraduate history major or minor, please read the instructions for transfer credit.

Phi Alpha Theta is the National History Honor Society. Georgetown's Chapter, Beta Pi, was founded in 1948. We invite all students interested in history to learn more about Phi Alpha Theta and Beta Pi Chapter.