grad study in history info please....

josephine
Sun, 13 Aug 2006 09:39:36 +0000

ticklemepink, well you take tests to prove you have the proper language skills in the fifth or sixth semester but in looking at who to admit, these programs do look much more favorably on those who have all or some of the requirements done already, or are on their way to getting them done. If I was an adcom I would be somewhat skeptical of someone who had to learn them from scratch in graduate school, along with all the other work. I think it depends a bit on the area and languages involved, I think for my field, euro, language proficiency is usually sort of expected but for other fields, requiring more difficult or unusual languages, less so.

dobby-I’m not terribly familiar with latin american history programs since that is not my area but US News and World Report has a list you can check, three that are mentioned there are University of Texas-Austin, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Yale (this is just what can be seen online).