Master of Arts in History

The Master of Arts in History serves both as preparation for doctoral study and as a professional degree in many fields of research, teaching, and public history.The Department of History offers degrees for the Masters of Arts and the Doctor of Philosophy. The program is known for special strengths in public history, Medieval Europe, and the history of the Americas. The Department also offers two Graduate Certificates and an Accelerated Graduate Degree Program (BAMA).History graduates in the Department of History at Western Michigan University teach history at research universities, small liberal arts colleges, community colleges, private schools and K-12. They curate archives, craft museum exhibits, create documentary films and serve in government posts like the National Park Service. They are employed by private industry in a host of positions that call upon their advanced history training. Above all, WMU history graduate students go on to produce new scholarly research about the past that they share with others.