Certificate in Public History
The Department of History offers a Certificate in Public History to both degree seeking students as well as non-degree seeking individuals seeking professional advancement. The Certificate in Public History introduces undergraduate students to the field of public history while helping students to develop skills necessary to convey history to audiences in a wide array of public and private settings outside of academia. Students have the opportunity to complete a variety of projects, including website design and content development, exhibit design and narrative development, developing history education programs and interpretive programs for museums, National Register of Historic Places nominations, and cultural landscape analyses and reports. Through the internship requirement, students will gain valuable public history experience while working in a professional setting. The certificate will help prepare students for graduate level work in public history. The certificate is comprised of eighteen hours of coursework and a required three hour internship.
The Certificate in Public History may be competed online if arrangements are made for HI 496 (Public History Internship) to be completed at an appropriate venue in the student's location.
Requirements for a Certificate in Public History1
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| HI 301W | History and Historical Research | 3 |
| HI 320 | Introduction to Public History | 3 |
| HI 496 | Public History Internship (Public History Internship) | 3 |
| Select two from the following Public History Electives: | 6 | |
| Material Culture | ||
| Collections Management | ||
| Historical Archeology | ||
| Fieldwork Methods Course | ||
| Digital Collections Management | ||
| History of American Architecture | ||
| Exhibit Design | ||
| Oral History | ||
| Digital History | ||
| Select two from the following Related Electives: | 6 | |
| Accounting Concepts I | ||
| Accounting Concepts II | ||
| Modern Architecture | ||
| Aural-Visual Production | ||
| Technical and Scientific Writing | ||
| Grant Writing and Management | ||
| Geographic Information Systems | ||
| Urban Geography | ||
| Principles of Urban and Regional Planning | ||
| Principles of Marketing | ||
| Social Media Marketing | ||
| Introduction to Public Policy | ||
| Introduction to Anthropology | ||
| Interpretation of Cultural and Natural Resources | ||
| Natural Resource Management | ||
Additional courses with the approval of the Chair of the Department of History | ||
| Total Hours | 21 | |
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Degree seeking students in the Certificate in Public History program who also
wish to earn a History minor may overlap only one Public History elective
toward their electives category for the History minor. The courses required for
the Certificate in Public History, HI 320 and HI 496, cannot be counted toward
the History electives for the History minor when both a History minor and a
Certificate in Public History are sought. The Public History elective course
chosen for overlap may be HI 411, HI 412, HI 413, HI 414, HI 415, HI 416, HI 465, HI 476, or HI 480. At least 6 credit hours of History electives (300-400 level) for the History Minor must come from non-public history elective courses.