Graduate Student Resources

To help plan your graduate career, use the button below to view the upcoming schedule of courses offered.

Students in the department are encouraged to contribute to the collective UCCS History Department Blog. All topics related to the study and scholarship of history are welcome. This gives students a space in which to launch their scholarly voice and become better known in the field.

Through internships at local museums and other institutions, history students learn how to create and preserve historical documents, conduct archival research, curate museum collections, fundraise, and participate in public outreach projects, gaining real-world experience and creating opportunities for future employment. Many of these institutions are now headed by our departmental graduates--one of the many ways UCCS History gives back to our community.

Teaching Assistantships are awarded on a competitive basis to currently enrolled UCCS graduate students in the Department of History. Typically, there are limited numbers of assistantships available. 

Teaching assistantship applications are accepted each spring for the following academic year, with selection decisions announced later that spring.

For further information, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies or the departmental program assistant.

There are many national and regional conferences of relevance to historians that meet annually in different parts of the country. Students are encouraged to submit paper or poster proposals to these, or to attend when possible to learn more about their fields of interest and to meet other scholars.

Each year, the Department of History hosts a Day of History Graduate Student Conference. Attended by faculty, students, and community members, this professionalization opportunity also gives students the chance to share their work and learn about their cohort's projects.

See programs for some of our past events:

• Spring 2025
• Fall 2022
• Spring 2022
• Spring 2021
• Fall 2020

"Brownbags" are designed to give UCCS historians, faculty and students alike, the chance to present topics of research or teaching interest, in an informal and convivial settings. Upcoming brown bags are announced in the UCCS History Blog.

The UCCS History Journal, though not currently active, has highlighted research by graduate students in the UCCS History Department and provided a professional venue for the publication of their work.  Students interested in helping restart the journal are encouraged to contact Dr. Jimenez for more information.

Click below to learn more about the MA program in History at UCCS, including scheduling classes, funding and assistantship positions, other opportunities for grad students, and where our graduates go next.