Resources for Students
- DPCL (Degree Program Course List)
Are you thinking about Graduate School?
Here are some suggestions from Loyola History faculty to make sure that you are prepared:
- Dr. Mark Fernandez: “Take a GRE review class. Ask professors to write recommendations well in advance of the deadlines. Be careful to select schools to apply to wisely by researching them on the Web, choosing schools that they realistically have a chance of being accepted to and to check with graduate directors to ensure that the professors they want to study with take on graduate students. Check the box on the application that ensures the confidentiality of the referee’s letter.”
- Fr. Robert Gerlich, S.J.: “Apart from the caveat of marketability, I would say that one should be cautious to select a department which has people in the area of your interest. . . .Also make sure that the department is stable.”
- Dr. Bernard Cook: “Learn languages. Go to the best school you can get into.”
- Dr. Nancy Anderson: “Do NOT be intimidated by other graduate students who flaunt extensive bibliographical citations and arcane theoretical ideas. Usually the students who have the need to show off what they know are painfully insecure, and don't really know that much.”
- Dr. Michael Ross: “Students interested in graduate school should do as much work as they can with primary documents. A good thesis based on primary documents will impress admissions committees.”
- Dr. Sara Butler: "You can't read the primary documents if you don't read the language. For medieval history, you MUST have Latin."