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Nov 21, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Museums, Archives and Public History - Major
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The Museums, Archives and Public History major integrates the methods of the arts (liberal, visual, and performing) with professional practice. The methods of the major are tied to the service of the community by emphasizing community memory and inclusion, engagement and dialog with the public as part of the practice and outcome of work in this field. Unique to this program is the strong integration of experiential learning in a variety of settings (internships) throughout the program.
Program Objectives
- Prepare students for careers in which knowledge of history is a distinct advantage or essential, such as government and politics, museums, archives, historical societies, research institutes, advocacy groups, non-profits, and community organizations.
- Prepare students for graduate work in Public History, Museums, Library Science, Archives, etc.
- Provide advisement and mentoring for such students.
- Develop opportunities for off-campus experiential learning, in the U.S. and abroad.
- Develop opportunities for community service and engagement locally and nationally.
- Develop methods and processes for collaborative undergraduate research.
Student Learning Outcomes
- Develop within students an experiential and practical knowledge of public history as a career and field.
- Display knowledge of specific skills used in public history (oral history, digitalization, curation, archives, etc.).
- Demonstrate knowledge of the theories of public history as part of the realm of historical studies.
- Analyze the social and historical construction of cultural values, perceptions, and beliefs in differing historical and cultural contexts that influence the power dynamics among individuals and societies.
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Core Curriculum Requirements
All Nazareth students complete Core Curriculum coursework as part of their degree requirements. The Core provides a foundation in the liberal arts and sciences while guiding students to pose and explore their own intellectual questions. See Academic Policies and Procedures for specific core curriculum requirements.
Required Public History Courses
Elective - Oral History
Take one of the following courses (students cannot use the same course to fulfill the Oral History and the Local/Public History electives):
Electives - History
Students are required to complete two upper-division history courses (300-400 level) to enhance historical skills. Courses must differ from those used to complete the elective requirements for Oral History and Local/Public History.
Elective - Local/Public History
Take one of the following courses (students cannot use the same course to fulfill the Oral History and the Local/Public History electives):
Internship Requirements
Students are required to complete three of the following courses.
Suggested Electives
Although not required for the degree, students are strongly encouraged to explore coursework in cognate majors such as Anthropology, Art History, Communication, and Management, especially when considering their IS cluster. Note - upper division courses (200 level and above) that are not PEQ’s may also serve as Integrated Studies courses for the CORE.
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