A. Program Description. The Wilfrid Laurier University History department, together with the departments of History at the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo, offers a joint program leading to MA and PhD degrees, know as the Tri-University Graduate Program in History: http://www.triuhistory.ca. Students in the program register at one of the three universities but may complete course work and use faculty and library resources at all participating universities. The Tri-University Graduate Program in History combines the faculty and resources of three of Canada's premier universities. Since 1994 our program has been educating students in innovative ways while providing them with a solid grounding in traditional historical methods. The Tri-University program integrates the scholarship and experience of over sixty graduate faculty members, making it one of the biggest graduate history programs in the country. Some 150 History graduate students are currently enrolled in the program and each year we accept up to 20 new Doctoral students and 60 new Master's students. Because of its impressive size and scope and because of student mobility among the three campuses, we are able to provide courses and supervise research in the widest possible range of areas. At the same time, through small seminars, close student-professor relationships and through teaching assistantships and scholarships held at one of the three participating campuses, the program is able to maintain the atmosphere of smaller, more intimate educational institutions. In our program, students benefit from combining placement in a single history department with the resources of one of Canada's largest graduate history programs.

B. Special Programs. Students may complete the MA program at the Tri-University in several ways: by coursework, by a combination of coursework and a major research paper, or by coursework and an MA thesis. We also offer full-time and part-time programs. Students generally take courses at all three campuses, though they will normally choose their major research paper or thesis advisor from faculty at their home university. The MA program is designed to be completed in two or three terms of full-time study. Our MA handbook provides a full description of the program and its regulations: http://www.triuhistory.ca/?cat=19.

The Tri-University's PhD program in History is innovatively designed so that it can be completed in four years of full-time study. Students generally participate in three field seminars in their first year and sit their major field exam in their fourth registration term. The fields serve to provide students with teachable areas and to advance them on their dissertation research. Every year fields in Canada, Early Modern Europe, Modern Europe, Scotland, War and Society, and Race, Imperialism, and Slavery are offered, with an additional 19 areas of study permitted at the minor field level. Because students are able to move through the field completion phase of their degree in one year, they can devote the majority of their studies to their own research, teaching, and writing. In this way, the program succeeds in combining solid field training within a four-year completion structure without compromise to the student's research, professional development or writing. Other innovative features of the program include the presentation of a portion of the dissertation in a colloquium setting, a first-year Professional Development seminar and a fourth-year teaching practicum. The teaching practicum gives each eligible doctoral student the opportunity to teach a course of their own with the advice of an academic mentor. For more information on the program, please consult the PhD Handbook: http://www.triuhistory.ca/?cat=12.

C. Financial Aid. Graduate students enrolled in the Tri-University Program are funded according to the scholarship and funding policies prevailing at the university in which they are enrolled. A minimum guaranteed package of funding for both MA and PhD students is available at some of the participating universities. The financial package offered by the Graduate Officer at the campus to which the student is admitted will normally consist of Graduate Teaching Assistantships, internal scholarships, and other funding. The level of support that a student can expect will be explained to the applicant at the point when the Program recommends their admission. All applicants are expected to apply for outside funding, such as the Ontario Graduate Scholarship (OGS) or the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) doctoral fellowship, or other appropriate awards. In the past, our students have been very successful in winning these and other competitive awards. Each university maintains its own scholarships and funding websites collectively listed here: http://www.triuhistory.ca/?cat=18.

D. Degree Requirements. MA: 8-one term courses (coursework stream); 6-one term courses and a major research paper (MRP stream); 4-one term courses and a thesis (thesis stream).?PhD (based on admission of students already holding a MA degree): Professional Development Seminar, Language Requirement, Major Field Seminar, Two Minor Field Seminars, Major Field Qualifying Written Examination, Major Field Qualifying Oral Examination, Thesis Proposal, Colloquium, PhD Thesis.