Requirements
In our program, you’ll receive a thorough grounding in historical methods, sources, and modes of writing. You’ll take 32 semester hours before you graduate: required history and methodology courses, public history electives, humanities or general history electives, fieldwork course, and history research seminar. We like to stay fresh, so our elective courses change frequently and often correspond with public history projects our faculty are working on. Students also have the opportunity to earn a certificate in Digital Humanities, and can work with professors in media, journalism, design, and English as they do so.
Program Requirements
Current Public History Electives
- Museums and Exhibitions
- Historic Preservation
- Visual and Material Culture
- Atlantic Connections: Objects, Collections, Legacies
- Humanities Action Lab: States of Incarceration
- History of Media
- Violence and Public Memory
- Public History of Slavery
- Fundamentals of Digital Storytelling
- Telling Your Story with Data
- Information Design and Visual Analytics
- Humanities Data Analysis
- Managing Historical Nonprofit Organizations
- Civil Rights and Restorative Justice
We offer courses in the late afternoons and evening to accommodate internships and work schedules, and we work closely with students in the program to develop schedules and materials that correspond to their interests and needs.