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I've looked into those a bit, but they do seem generally pricey. I will continue looking, however. I'm glad to see someone confirming my wariness of that program. And, yeah, I definitely understand where she's coming from. She's trying to help, but I do find the lack of willingness to even discuss it very frustrating. I'm not unaware of the issues with a history degree, I'm just interested in doing research more than I am in working in a library or museum. I have, however, looked into a few joint History/Museum Studies programs and things of that nature just to cover my bases. I just haven't gone too far down that rabbit hole yet, mostly because I have similar concerns about it that I do with the IU program.

Hello! I'm currently an undergraduate student in my junior year, and I'm very interested in graduate school. I am double-majoring in English (Creative Writing) and History, so I have an array of options; however, I am leaning very heavily towards History MA programs. I am enjoying the search process, but I'm running into some issues that are causing it to be a bit overwhelming. First and foremost, my advisor -- while an awesome lady and a great professor -- has not been terribly helpful. Every conversation about graduate school with her has almost immediately led to her pushing me towards a museum studies or library sciences program, and she hasn't even been very helpful in how to go about pursuing that if I decided to. Being a first-generation college student, all of this is very, very new to me, so the lack of support from the one person I know with knowledge of this sort of thing has been difficult. Secondly, I am pretty adamant about studying ancient history in particular. Not only is there where most of my interest lies, but with my Ancient and Medieval Studies minor, this is what I'm more prepared to do advanced study in, in my opinion. The problem with that is my severe lack of language preparation. I know language prep is not as important to MA programs as it is to PhD programs, but most Ancient History programs I've looked at still seem to have some expectations. Unfortunately, my current university, despite having an Ancient and Medieval Studies program, has literally zero ancient language courses (they used to, apparently -- go figure). I have tried to study a bit of Latin on my own, but it hasn't gone particularly well. Greek, as you can imagine, has gone even worse. I did come across a program at Indiana University that seemed compelling -- their MA in Ancient History and Language Acquisition, which focuses on acquiring lacking language skills. Something like that seems interesting, but I have to wonder if that's even a good choice. For instance, if I decided to pursue a PhD later on, would I be lacking in other areas because so much of my MA was focused on language study? If it's plausible to both study languages intensively and get the adequate preparation in history study, why don't more schools offer something like this? It just seems a bit...too good to be true, I suppose, and I'm a little worried. I guess what I'm wondering is: what are my chances of successfully pursuing this specific area of study at this point? Should I be giving up on this and trying to broaden my horizons? Like I said, graduate study is a whole new world to me, so any advice in general would be much appreciated.