Doctor's degree History - Cornell University

Doctor's degree History from Cornell University is a Campus Ph.D History degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. To encourage flexibility, general requirements are kept to a minimum. For the doctorate, these include: taking seven graduate-level seminars including History 709, Introduction to the Graduate Study of History, and, for Americanists only, History 604, the Colloquium on American History; demonstrating proficiency in two languages other than English; completing the Graduate School's residence requirement of 6 semesters of full-time study at a satisfactory level of accomplishment; teaching for at least one year (normally as a teaching assistant); passing the "Q" examination early in the second semester of study; the written and oral "Admission to Candidacy" examination after completion of formal study (the "A" exam); and completing the doctoral dissertation and defending it in a final examination. All incoming doctoral students take a proficiency examination in an appropriate foreign language at the beginning of the first term of residence. Those who do not pass the exam enroll in suitable language courses until proficiency is acquired. Proficiency in two foreign languages (or for Americanists, one language and statistics) must be demonstrated before a Ph.D. degree candidate is eligible to take the Admission to Candidacy examination. The Admission to Candidacy exam is partly oral and partly written and is usually taken in the third year of study. View more details on Cornell University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related History courses.