A. Program Description. The Concordia History Department's mission is both to train historians for careers in teaching and research and to produce articulate and informed graduates who share its commitment to serving the broader community. The research of our twenty-five full-time faculty members spans the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa. Much of our scholarship and advanced course offerings focuses on the themes of cultural and political history, empire and transnationalism, gender and sexuality, genocide and human rights, and law and society. Unique in Canada, our department also specializes in scholarship, courses, training, and policy development that involves the wider public’s involvement in history. Our student body reflects the cultural diversity of Montreal, Quebec, and Canada, and our students have won prestigious Commonwealth, Rhodes, Rockefeller and Canada Graduate Scholarships. Because PhD students can study on a part-time or full-time basis, our student body is also vocationally diverse, including younger students with recent undergraduate degrees, professionals, and working people returning to university from careers in the private and public sector.

B. Special Programs. Concordia's History Department host to three research centers, all directed to our particular expertise in public history and human rights: the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling, the Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in the Aftermath of Violence, and the Montreal Institute for Genocide Studies.

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D. Degree Requirements. Coursework (18 credits): students in their first two years register for the Doctoral Seminar (6 credits); the remaining credits are earned in reading tutorials (6 credits in the major field of specialization; 3 credits each in two minor field tutorials). During their second year, students progress through Comprehensive Examinations (12 credits), comprising written examinations in their three fields followed by an oral comprehensive examination with their field supervisors. Following successful completion of the PhD Thesis Proposal and Colloquium (6 credits), students write a Thesis (54 credits). Students must also demonstrate the ability to read and translate historical material in a modern language other than English.