The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies is pleased to announce the launch of our M.A./Ph.D. program in History and Culture. We have rethought the foundations of graduate education in history and designed our new program to prepare students for careers in academia and beyond, through multidisciplinary approaches to topics, innovative internships, public humanities projects, and a structured teaching experience.
At its founding, Drew University was dedicated to training ministers who would take their learning out into the world to make it a better place. We are continuing that tradition with this graduate program, as our students take their knowledge and minister the world in new and different ways. They will not hide behind the walls of the academy, but actively embrace learning. We live in a rapidly changing, multilogical, and complicated world where simple answers no longer work. We believe a Caspersen School education will prepare students not only to develop intellectually and make a living, but also to make a difference in the world.
The History and Culture program concentrates on the intellectual and cultural history of modern Europe and America and trains students both for careers in academia and for related nonacademic work in publishing, cultural journalism, museums, civic leadership, and philanthropy. Whether as scholars and teachers in a university setting or public intellectuals, graduates of the History and Culture program will not just engage with students, colleagues, and decision-makers, but shape the public discourse.
This highly selective program will admit its first Ph.D. students for September 2010.