डॉ. बी. आर. अम्बेडकर विश्वविद्यालय दिल्ली 
Applicants need to have a Bachelors degree in any discipline with minimum 45% marks or equivalent grade from a recognised university (Relaxation of 5% marks for SC/ST/PwBD/D-OBC (NCL)/Defence/KM).
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×Applicants need to have a Bachelors degree in any discipline with minimum 45% marks or equivalent grade from a recognised university (Relaxation of 5% marks for SC/ST/PwBD/D-OBC (NCL)/Defence/KM).
The School of Liberal Studies (SLS) offers a range of interdisciplinary and overlapping programmes that support, encourage and redefine liberal arts education through cutting-edge interdisciplinary courses, interactive pedagogy and learning that goes beyond classroom spaces. The MA History programme is designed to impart understanding of historical phenomena and processes as well as to transmit skills of historical analysis and encourage the historical imagination.
The programme teaches students to inquire historically while making use of insights and interpretive techniques of other disciplines, and it seeks to encourage a spirit of critical thinking about contemporary social questions. Skills acquired through the programme shall serve programme graduates well not only in academic but in such careers as journalism, publishing, educational administration, museum/archive management, tourism/heritage management and government service (among others).
| Core courses | Compulsory | 16 credits |
| Elective history courses | elective area I | 8 to 32 credits |
| Elective history courses | elective area II | 8 to 32 credits |
| Non-History courses | elective | Up to 8 credits |
| Non-History courses | elective | Up to 8 credits |
| Research paper | in Semester 4 | 8 credits |
| TOTAL | 64 credits |
Elective History courses are grouped in two broad categories: South Asian History and Comparative History. Courses in the former are unified with respect to their geographical dimension-areas and regions within or across the Indian subcontinentand address various themes. Courses in the latter are designed to acquaint students with the eclectic nature of historical research while encouraging them to reflect upon connections between 'Indian History' and ‘other’ fields of history.
Students must complete at least eight credits and as many as 32 credits of elective courses in each of these two categories. MA History students are encouraged but not required to complete up to eight credits of non-History courses, whether in the School of Liberal Studies or from postgraduate programmes of other Schools of the University.
Medium of instruction: English Eligibility: Applicants need to have a Bachelors degree in any discipline with minimum 45% marks or equivalent grade from a recognised university (Relaxation of 5% marks for SC/ST/PwBD/D-OBC (NCL)/Defence/KM).
At the end of the MA History Programme, a student will be able to
- Identify different types of historical sources
- Demonstrate skill to develop critical reading and analysis of textual and non-textual sources
- Demonstrate understanding of epistemilogical and methodological distinctiveness in historical studies
- Develop skill to present historical argument orally and in writing
- Link historical issues to contemporary debates
- Contribute in generating new archives of narratives and testimonies