MA in Public History

USA

What will I learn?

The Master's in Public History program is a 31-hour program that provides students both the theoretical and practical skill sets needed to perform public history work in a variety of vocations, whether as museum professionals, archivists, government contractors, community consultants, teachers both inside and outside the classroom, among others.

Program Outcomes

Upon completion of the MA in Public History, graduates will be able to:

  • Use public history methods and theories to share historical interpretation with a broad range of public audiences;
  • Apply new media digital tools to the preservation and presentation of archival material;
  • Utilize the best professional practices to preserve, catalog, and present historical artifacts and records;
  • Understand and employ local, state, and federal preservation rules to establish the significance of historic properties;
  • Demonstrate the ability to work with public history institutions to make the past relevant to diverse communities;
  • Perform historical research in archives and libraries and evaluate the provenance, context, validity, and biases of these sources from the past;
  • Apply the necessary research skills to produce original scholarship on a chosen historical topic using primary sources while evaluating the validity, context, and biases of secondary source literature produced by other scholars;
  • Demonstrate the ability to deploy multiple forms of communication (written, oral, and new media) to discuss their own historical scholarship and graduate-level knowledge of their chosen fields.

Which department am I in?

Graduate School

Study options

Full Time (31 hours)

Tuition fees
USD $1,125 Per Credit Hour
Application deadline

Expected October 2024

Start date

Expected August 2024

Venue

Graduate School

1032 W. Sheridan Road,

CHICAGO,

Illinois,

60660, United States

Entry requirements

For international students

Bachelor's degree and a B average. Normally, students should have 18 hours of undergraduate coursework in history.

Also applicants whose first or native language is not English must demonstrate their proficiency with a minimum of 79 on the TOEFL exam or a 6.5 on the IELTS, 550 on the written test or 213 on the computer-based test.

Deadlines: Fall for Ph.D. and for M.A. with assistantship consideration-January 1; Fall for MA- May 1

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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