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There are numerous programs and opportunities available for graduate students.
- Assistantships, internships, departmental committees, and campus leadership positions
- A community of support, collaboration, balance, and possibilities
- Preparation for careers in academia: free grant writing workshops, future faculty preparation, and teaching documentation
Anthropology
MA specializations: environmental studies, ethnic studies, Great Plains studies, professional archaeology, women's and gender studies. Certifications: Digital Humanities, Forensic Anthropology, Museum Studies.
Graduate Studies information: Forensic Anthropology Cert., Museum Studies Cert., MA
Biochemistry
Programs: MS, PhD
Graduate Studies information: MS, PhD
Biological Sciences
Programs and specializations: Bioinformatics (MS), Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (MS, PhD), Genetics, Cell and Molecular Biology (MS, PhD), Plant Pathology (MS, PhD).
Graduate Studies information: MS, PhD
Chemistry
PhD specializations: Bioinformatics, Chemistry Teaching at the Postsecondary Level, Environmental Studies.
Graduate Studies information: MS, PhD
Communication Studies
MA and PhD areas of study: Interpersonal, Family, and Health Communication; Rhetoric and Public Culture. Specializations: Great Plains Studies, Women's and Gender Studies.
English
MA and PhD areas: literature studies, creative writing, and composition and rhetoric. Specializations: Great Plains studies, human rights and humanitarian affairs, 19th-century studies, women's and gender studies.
Graduate Studies information: MA, PhD
Geography
MA specialties: GIS and Geovisualization, Human-Environment Relations, Cultural and Historical Geography, Urban and Political Geography. Certification: Geographic Information Science.
Graduate Studies information: GIS Cert., MA
Global Integrative Studies
Phd program: anthropology, geography
Graduate Studies information: PhD
History
MA in North American history, European history, world history, supplemented with a secondary field. Joint JD-MA. PhD in North American west and borderlands, 19th century U.S., transnational history, or modern world.
Graduate Studies information: MA, PhD
Mathematics
Programs: MS or MA; Master of Arts for Teachers (MAT); PhD; MS/PhD.
Graduate Studies information: MS, MAT, PhD
Modern Languages and Literatures
Programs: French (MA, PhD), German (MA), and Spanish (MA, PhD)
Philosophy
Programs: MA, MA/PhD, PhD (each with an optional specialization in Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs)
Graduate Studies information: MA, PhD
Physics and Astronomy
PhD with specializations in Atomic, Molecular, Optical, and Plasma Physics, Condensed Matter and Material Physics, Experimental High Energy Physics. (MS is earned as part of the PhD.)
Graduate Studies information: MS, PhD
Political Science
MA and PhD focus in American Politics, International Relations, Political Psychology and Biopolitics with optional specializations in human rights and humanitarian affairs and women's and gender studies.
Graduate Studies information: MA, PhD
Psychology
Programs: Clinical, Developmental, Law-Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior, Social and Cognitive
Graduate Studies information: MA, PhD
Sociology
MA and PhD programs with optional PhD minors.
Graduate Studies information: MA, PhD
Survey Research and Methodology
Certificate, MS, PhD
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