M.A. students in History at WVU must specialize in a core area (12 credit hours), a minor field (6 credit hours), an additional elective course (3 credit hours), HIST 700 (Historiography, 3 credit hours), and may take up to 6 credit hours of HIST 697 (Thesis Research). The fields available for study are:
Africa
- British Imperial History
- East African History
- West African History
Europe
- Britain/British Imperial History
- Modern Central European History
- Early Modern History
- Modern Eastern European History
- Medieval History
- Russian/Soviet History
- Modern Western European History
Latin American
- Latin American/Caribbean History
- U.S.-Latin American Relations
United States
- Appalachian/West Virginia Regional History
- Colonial American History to 1787
- Social History of U.S.
- U.S. Diplomatic History
- U.S. History 1787-1850
- U.S. History 1840-1898
- U.S. History 1998 to Present