Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Graduate Students: How to Apply for Graduation

Graduate Students: Information on the process for applying for graduation is available on the history website. Go to www.wou.edu/history and in the "Resources" section of the sidebar and click on "Graduate History FAQs"

Thursday, February 11, 2010

History 499 Students: Apply for the History Department Research Grant

The History Department at Western Oregon University is pleased to offer a History Research Grant to history majors in their senior year. This grant is designed to support student research and the costs associated with that research for the History 499 Senior Seminar course. The grant amount varies year to year but has historically been in the range of $200-$350. Students who have completed all of the Fall and Winter Senior Seminar requirements are eligible for the research grant.

To apply, history majors entering the History 499 Senior Seminar in the spring term should submit the following materials to Professor Kimberly Jensen, Chair, Department of History by 5:00 p.m. on March 1, 2010:

A one-page cover letter. The cover letter should include your name, the working title of your paper, a statement of your thesis and an outline of the revisions you are making to your original research paper. Please discuss the specific tasks that remain to complete the research for your senior thesis and how you would use this research grant to support the completion of that research.

A one-page budget. Provide an itemized list of your budget needs and a paragraph discussing how you would use the research grant funds. (Past examples have included photocopying, purchase of books or other research materials, travel to Portland or Eugene for archival or library research, etc.)

A copy of your most recent unofficial transcripts. You may use a print-out from your Wolf Web account.

A copy of your original paper. 

The application materials must be submitted to the history chair by 5:00 p.m., March 1, 2010. You may bring them to the Social Science Division office at HSS 231 during business hours.

The research grant will be awarded by the history faculty in a competitive process. In addition to the application materials described above, the history faculty will also consider the completion of fall/winter assignments such as the annotated bibliography.

The recipient(s) of this grant will be recognized at an awards celebration sponsored by the WOU foundation.

Contact History Chair Professor Kimberly Jensen at jenseki@wou.edu if you have any questions.

For a list of previous recipients go to: www.wou.edu/history and click on “Research Grant”

Graduate Asian History Seminar for Spring 2010

Graduate students please note: the Asian History Seminar was misnumbered on the "real time class availability" site and that numbering is being revised. The course will be offered as HST 600: Seminar: Asia and will fulfill the seminar requirements for the History M.A. If you have any questions please contact Professor Jensen at jenseki@wou.edu or for information about the course Professor Hsieh at hsiehb@wou.edu

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Spring Registration

History Students -- make sure to arrange for an appointment to talk with your academic advisor -- registration for spring courses begins February 22 and classes are up on the real time class availability page.