DMP Information Session

The co-directors of the History Department's Distinguished Majors Program (DMP) will be holding an information session for interested second year students on February 29th, 2012 in Nau 441 at 3:30pm.

The purpose of the History Department’s Distinguished Majors Program is to provide selected undergraduates with the opportunity to design and carry out a research project of greater depth than is possible within the confines of the department’s standard fourth year research seminars. Participants will engage in intensive readings on historiography, historical theory and selected monographs presented by members of the History Department. The end result and centerpiece of the program, however, is the completion of a DMP thesis, an original and significant work of historical scholarship of between sixty to ninety pages.

Students apply in the spring of their second year. Application forms are available on the department’s web site (http://www.virginia.edu/history/undergraduate/dmp). The deadline for applying this year is Friday, March 23.

If you have further questions about the program and its requirements, please contact the co-directors of the DMP, Prof. Bradly W. Reed (bwr4k [at] virginia [dot] edu), Prof. Jennifer Burns (jenniferburns [at] virginia [dot] edu), and Prof. Charles McCurdy (cwm [at] virginia [dot] edu).