Master of Arts in History

About this programme

Peer into the past with the Master of Arts in History at the University of Regina. Our thesis-based program is structured to foster intensive examination of topics from a variety of approaches, including political history, social history, economic history, cultural history, military history, and gender history. Graduate students studying history develop advanced research, analytical, writing, and presentation skills. The master’s degree is a stepping stone to an academic career, or a variety of professional careers. Studying history helps us understand and grapple with complex questions and dilemmas by examining how the past has shaped (and continues to shape) global, national, and local relationships between societies and people. Due to our small yearly intake, we can offer master’s students close and careful supervision. Fully-qualified students have the opportunity to work as research assistants for faculty who hold SSHRC and other research grants. This is a seminar course examining the variety of approaches to the study of history from 1900 to the present. Movements studied include Marxism, the Annales School, Feminist Theory, and Post-Modernism. A study of the evolution of historical writings in terms of major historians, schools of thought, changing frameworks of analysis and contested interpretations of significant events. The course aims to instil a theoretical and methodological understanding of historiography for graduate students. This course is intended to teach the research methods, writing, and critical and analytical skills necessary for successful re