Master in History

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General Goal

The master in History aims, according to legal and academic requirements of programs at the graduate level, at training those interested in developing their research skills in the formulation of historical problems. This is done through seminars making it possible to deepen and update current understanding of theoretical and historiographic problems and debates involving the Historic discipline and related fields. It is also done through workshops in which students, through carefully guided research practice, are trained to develop the skills necessary for generating new knowledge .

Program Outlook

The basis of the academic proposal of the master's degree program is the recognition of History as a specific field of knowledge, which, by its nature, must enter in dialogue with other fields in its purpose to understand and explain, from a spatial/temporal perspective, the complex issues imbedded in the dynamic of societies, as well as discussing the ways and means in which it yields its knowledge.

Degree granted

Master degree in History.

Curricular Structure

The program involves three curricular areas: theory, historiography and research/methodology.

Contact: maestria.historia@javeriana.edu.co

Courses (Study Plan)

First Year

The first stage or basic year, common to all students enrolled in the Master's program in History, has the specific goal of updating the students in the current state of the discipline as well as their training in historical methods and modern research techniques.

Semester courses:

• Theoretical seminars on History I and II : in-depth analysis and debate, from the Theory of History perspective, of the object, subject, truth, knowledge process, historic fact, time, space and narrative concepts (3 credits each ).
• Historiographic seminar I and II : in-depth analysis and debate on the forms and ways of production of historical knowledge focused on the trends that make some historians and their work stand out (3 credits each ).
• Research Workshop I and II : the craft of the historian. Working with sources (2 credits each ).
• Techniques and Instruments II : updating and in-depth training in techniques and instruments for statistical and systematic treatment of information, as well as training in the management of network activities and diffusion of historic knowledge (2 credits each ).  

Second Year

The second stage or emphasis year makes possible the concentration and in-depth analysis by students according to their interests and research areas of members of the Department. During this year, the specific goal of the program is to develop research skills through the relationship tutor/ student researcher.

  Semester courses:

• Theoretic Emphasis seminar I and II : in-depth analysis and debate, from the Theory of History, of the purpose and conceptual debates on the respective emphasis area (3 credits each).
• Historiographic emphasis seminar I and II: reading and debate of characteristic works from the selected emphasis area (3 credits each).
• Tutoring I and II: research techniques and methodology workshops in which the final project (graduating monograph) is designed and developed, under the tutorial guidance of a professor (2 credits each).
• Elective: space for an elective course in any of the master's programs, with the aim to enrich the development of the graduating monograph (2 credits).
• Graduating monograph: submission and defense of work ( 6 credits).

 Total number of credits: 44

Contact: maestria.historia@javeriana.edu.co