Doctor's degree History - Graduate Theological Union

Doctor's degree History from Graduate Theological Union is a Campus Ph.D Religious Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The GTU History Area offers its doctoral students two distinct tracks: History of Christianity and Jewish History and Culture. 1. The history of Christianity track offers programs of study in the following fields: ancient and eastern Christianity, medieval Jewish-Christian relations, medieval Christianity, the Reformations broadly conceived, spirituality, Christian missions and American religious history especially colonial, church and state, religion in the American West and American Catholicism. 2. In the Jewish history and culture track, students can study Hellenistic Jewish and rabbinic literature, medieval Jewish history and thought, and modern Jewish literature and culture. Among the interests of the faculty are literary studies , history of ideas and language, the politics of translation and of cultural exchange. Students may work within the discipline of history as well as literary, religious, or cultural studies. In both tracks, the department encourages interdisciplinary and comparative research. Students have the opportunity to work closely with professors from both the GTU and UC Berkeley. Objectives Students acquire a strong general competence, particularly for teaching the history of Christianity or Judaism, and will have particular strength, both for teaching and scholarly research, in a more narrowly defined specialization and in a second field. View more details on Graduate Theological Union . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Religious Studies courses.