Degree Requirements

**Master of Arts in Historical Studies**
Section I: Core Courses	6 hrs.
History 501: Fundamentals of American History I (before 1877)	3 hrs.
History 502: Fundamentals of American History II (after 1877)	3 hrs.

Section II: Period and Topical Electives	12-15 hrs.
History 503: Conquest, Resistance and Rebellion: Comparing Colonial American Frontiers	3 hrs.
History 515: Civil War and Reconstruction	3 hrs.
History 518: The U.S. Between the World Wars	3 hrs.
History 520: Recent American History, 1960–Present	3 hrs.
History 561: U.S. Constitutional History	3 hrs.
History 562: American Creeds: The Idea of an American Nation	3 hrs.
History 564: Nebraska History	3 hrs.
History 565: The Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America	3 hrs.
History 570: American Civil Rights Movement	3 hrs.
History 590: Selected Topics*	3 hrs.

Section III: History Education	9-12 hours
History 521: History Strategies I	3 hrs.
History 522: History Strategies II	3 hrs.
History 523: Topics in the History Classroom	3 hrs.
History 550: Nebraska Institute for Study of American History	3 hrs.
History 585: AP U.S. History Institute	3 hrs.
History 589: Oral History: Theory and Methods	3 hrs.
Section IV: Culminating Project (3 hours)
History 599: Applied Project	3 hrs.
TOTAL	33 hrs.

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