MA History
Affiliated to the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, the two year programme for a Master of Arts Degree in History follows the prescribed syllabus for credit and semester system for post-graduate courses. Conceived in 2012, this syllabus consists of five papers in each semester, one project/dissertation during the entire course and a comprehensive viva voce at the end of the last semester. The papers in the first three semesters will constitute the core element, common to all students who undergo the same course and the papers in the final semester will be the optional component, which varies from college to college.
The postgraduate programme aims to make students capable of enhancing their cognitive faculty, intellectual competence and academic originality in the discipline. It incorporates current trends of knowledge in the discipline and ensures percolation of the recent developments thereof. The papers that are offered in this programme are relevant and useful for students, especially in regard to academic enhancement and career building at the national and international levels. The programme marks a departure from some of the earlier ways in which history was understood, and opens up new possibilities of doing history. A copy of the syllabus can be availed here.