Curriculum

The M.A. in History an Literature is a one-year program, with courses from September to early July, an an M.A. essay complete uring the summer following coursework.

A total of 30 creits are require to earn the egree:

• 24 creits for coursework- 8 seminars / 3 creits each
• 6 creits for the M.A. essay.

The minimum requirement for goo acaemic staning is to maintain a cumulative grae point average of at least 3.0.

Courses taken P/F or for R creit o not count towar the egree.

Expan allCollapse all

1. Two core courses at Rei Hall - 3 creits each.

• HILI GR 5000 Introuction to History an Literature in the Fall. A historical an conceptual introuction to the relationship between history an literature.

• HILI GR 5400 Research Seminar in the Spring. Initiation to archival, bibliographical, an philological work, with hans-on sessions in libraries an archives, an esigning of a research project.

2. Three seminars at Rei Hall ( Fall, Spring, May-July) - 3 creits each.

The seminars at Rei Hall are taught by Columbia Faculty or invite instructors. Each is worth 3 creits.

Here is a list of courses taught in the past:

Fall 2011: The Realistic Novel in Context, Prof. Elisabeth Laenson

Fall 2012: Narratives of Worl War II, Prof. Carol Gluck

Fall 2013: The Archival Imagination, Prof. Brent Ewars

Fall 2014: The Voice of the Witness, Prof. Marianne Hirsch an Leo Spitzer

Fall 2015: Narratives of Worl War II, Prof. Carol Gluck

Fall 2016: Writing from France: Black Expatriates in Paris, Prof. Marcellous Blount an Jean-Philippe Deieu

Fall 2017: Minorities in France: Exile histories, Conteste Memories, Collective Protests, Prof. Jean-Philippe Deieu

Fall 2018: Narratives of WWII, Prof. Carol Gluck

Spring 2012: Rousseau’s Confessions, Prof. Robert Morrissey

Spring 2013: Le Point e vue e l'inigène (1930-1970), Prof. Vincent Debaene

Spring 2014: Legacies of the First Worl War: history, memory an literature, Prof. Sylvie Aprile

Spring 2015: La France es Intellectuels, Prof. Philippe Roger

Spring 2016: Plagiarism an Postcolonialism, Prof. Joseph Slaughter

Spring 2017: From Enlightenment to Romanticism in French Thought, Prof. Michael Stanislawski

Spring 2018: "Epic Histories," Prof. Jenny Davison

Spring 2019: French America (1534-1804), Prof. Pierre Force.

May-July 2012: History an Literature of Slavery, Prof. Eric Foner

May-July 2013: Defoe’s Lonon, Prof. Carl Wennerlin.

May-July 2014: The Nation-Between History an Literature, Prof. Emmanuelle Saaa

May-July 2015: History an Literature of Slavery, Prof. Eric Foner

May-July 2016: Africa & France, Prof. Gregory Mann

May-July 2017: Aesthetics an the Philosophy of History, Prof. Dorothea von Mücke

May-July 2018: Global Histories of the Book, Prof. Joseph Howley

May-July 2019: History of the Self: Montaigne, Prof. Mark Lilla.

3. Three electives taught at EHESS an/or ENS - 3 creits each.

Stuents select courses at the ENS or at the EHESS, often in relation with the topics of their MA Essay. Each seminar is 3 creits.

Here is a short list of EHESS courses taken by HILI stuents in the past:

Les usages sociaux e la littérature XIXe-XXe siècles; Prof. Juith Lyon-Caen
Historiographie es Lumières ; Prof. Antoine Lilti
L’homme u vertige, e Kafka à Michau ; Prof. Marielle Macé
République, morale et socialisme; Prof. Vincent Duclert
Supports et circulations es arts et es savoirs en Afrique et au-elà; Prof. Jean-Paul Colleyn
Musique et Politique ;Prof. Estaban Buch
Histoire u corps ;Prof. Georges Vigarello

Here is a short list of ENS courses taken by HILI stuents in the past:

Théories post-coloniales; Prof. Dominique Combe
Trauma an Literature ; Prof. Susannah Mary Ellis
Writing an the Female Experience;Prof. Victoria Weavil
Literature an Economy;Prof. Agnès Derail
Histoire trans-impériale; Prof. Rahul Markovitz
Penser la Méiterranée moerne et contemporaine;Wolfgang Kaiser
Transferts culturels;Michel Espagne
Filmer la fin e l’Histoire ;Prof . Antoine De Baecque
Esthétique u film: "Working Class Heroes";Prof. Françoise Zamour
Art et civilisation u pétrole; Prof. Béatrice Joyeux Prunel

4. MA Essay in English- 6 creits

The Master’s essay, written in English, consists of a minimum of 50 pages, a bibliography an notes. It will be written uner the irection of a French expert in the relevant area of research. Oral presentations of the "work-in-progress" essays take place Mi June.

See /content/ma-essay for etails on M.A. Essay Requirements

5. Optional: French language course at Rei Hall - no creits.

The course, taught in the Fall, focuses on oral an written skills. The objective is to prepare stuents to aapt to their seminars at the ENS an the EHESS. This course oes not count towars the MA.