History, PhD—Advanced Entry (Boston)

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Theory and Methodology

From the catalog
A grade of B or higher is required:

HIST 5102 — Theory and Methodology 2

Digital History

HIST 7370 — Texts, Maps, and Networks: Readings and Methods for Digital History

Readings or Directed Study

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Complete 8 semester hours from the following:

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- One of:
  - HIST 8982 — Readings
  - HIST 7976 — Directed Study

Research Seminar

HIST 7314 — Research Seminar in World History

Practicum

HIST 8409 — Practicum in Teaching

Electives

From the catalog
Complete 8 semester hours from the following range:
HIST 7200 to HIST 7702

Choose 8 semester hours from:
- Any HIST course numbered 7200–7702

Exam Preparation

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Only needed for PhD students who have completed all coursework but have yet to pass the comprehensive exam. Not repeatable.

One of:
- HIST 8960 — Exam Preparation—Doctoral

Dissertation

One of:
- HIST 9990 — Dissertation Term 1
- HIST 9991 — Dissertation Term 2

Dissertation Continuation

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Following completion of two semesters of HIST 9990, registration in the following is required in each semester (excluding summers) until the dissertation is completed:

One of:
- HIST 9996 — Dissertation Continuation

GPA requirements

Minimum 3.500 GPA required

Substitutions

Stated by the catalog on this program's requirements:

Students who have completed courses assessed as equivalent to Texts, Maps, and Networks: Readings and Methods for Digital History (HIST 7370) or Practicum in Teaching (HIST 8409) may apply to the program director to substitute other Northeastern courses for these requirements.

Parsed from the catalog by NU Map; the structured machine copy is in this college's JSON for the 2027 catalog, under history-phdadvancedentry-boston, and the official page is the authority.