Requirements

The program consists of the following requirements:

1. HISTORY 659 Public History graduate seminar.
2. Two courses in a defined area of public history practice, e.g., archives management*, community and oral history, cultural resource management, digital history/new media, museum studies, and writing for popular audiences; students may also design their own program, with the consent of their certificate adviser. At least one of these courses can be outside the student's home department.

   Some sample tracks:

   Museum Studies

   • HISTORY 662 Museum and Historic Site Interpretation; or
   • HISTORY 661 American Material Culture; and
   • ART-HIST 634 History of Decorative Arts, ART-HIST 782 Museum Studies, or ANTHRO 597AE New Approaches to Public Commemorations and Social Memory

   Historic Preservation

   • LANDARCH 609 Studio X – Historic Preservation and ART 597V American Urbanism; or
   • ART-HIST 642 19th-Century Architecture; or
   • LANDARCH 544 History and Theory; or
   • HISTORY 697U/797U Landscape and Memory

   Writing for Popular Audiences

   • HISTORY 691W Writing History; and
   • JOURNAL 497M Art of the Profile

   New Media

   • HISTORY 664 Digital History

   Cultural Resource Management

   • ANTHRO 525 Archaeology and Law and HISTORY 662 Museum and Historic Site Interpretation; or
   • LANDARCH 597B Cultural Landscapes
3. 300 hours (6 credits) of internship experience. Internships may be paid or unpaid, but must conform to the policies set forth at www.umass.edu/history/public-history-internships. Students may complete this requirement at a single site, or divide the time between two separate sites.

For further information, contact Professor Samuel Redman, Public History Program, Herter Hall, University of Massachuset s, Amherst, MA 01003, tel.: (413) 545-1330 fax: (413) 545-6137; website: www.umass.edu/history/public-history.

*The Archival Management track is available through courses at Simmons College, offered on the campus of Mount Holyoke College. See https://www.simmons.edu/graduate/academic-programs/graduate-and-certificate-programs/archives-management-certificate.