The Graduate Public History Certificate is designed to prepare graduate students for a range of careers in public history institutions. The program combines rigorous training in historical methods and theory with practical, real world experience.
- The certificate requires a total of 18 credit hours and includes a core course in Public History methodology and two required internships along with elective courses drawn from across the University.
- Can be completed at the MA or PhD levels, or by non-matriculated students.
- Previous students have completed Internships at local and regional institutions including the Utah Division of State History, Utah State Archives, the Natural History Museum of Utah, the Hill Aerospace Museum, the J, Willard Marriott Library, and the LDS Church History Department and Museum.
- Graduate Research Assistantships are available through the University’s American West Center
view list of courses on general catalog
To Apply:
Submit a letter of application to Professor Elizabeth Clement: elizabeth.clement@utah.edu
Your application letter should include your name; educational background; experience in public history (paid or unpaid); your interest in the certificate; and your specific public history interests, if applicable.
REQUIRED COURSES
Complete 9 Credits
- HIST 5100 - Internship in Public History
* Course taken twice for credit - HIST 6360 - Careers in Public History
ELECTIVE COURSES
Complete 1 Course:
- HIST 5080 - American History and Its Publics
- HIST 5090 - Methods and Topics in Material Culture Studies
- HIST 5110 - Archeological Field School
- HIST 6000 - Archaeology as History
- HIST 7010 - Oral History
- HIST 7020 - Archival Principles and Methods
Complete 2 Courses:
- ANTH 6169 - Ethnographic Methods
- ANTH 6345 - Cultural Resources Management
- ANTH 6381 - Archaeological Practice
- ANTH 6611 - Preparation of Grant Proposals in Anthropology
- ARCH 6239 - Topics in Architectural History
- ARCH 6500 - Preservation Theory and Practice
- ARCH 6535 - Field Methods in Historic Architecture
- ARCH 6570 - Building Condition Assessment and Preservation Technology
- ARCH 6581 - Main Street” Revitalization”
- ARCH 6840 - Utah Architecture and Cities
- ARCH 6852 - History and Theory of Architectural Preservation since the 19th Century
- ARTH 4310 - Art and the Public Sphere
- ARTH 4740 - Museum Practices
- ARTH 6810 - Visual Intersections: Critical Approaches to Art and Visual Culture
- CMP 4030 - Leadership and Community Engagement
- CMP 4260 - Land, Law & Culture
- COMM 3100 - Introduction to Documentary Studies
- COMM 3170 - Introduction to Organizational Communication
- COMM 3770 - Cross Cultural Documentary
- COMM 5380 - Interdisciplinary Applications in Community Engagement
- COMM 5555 - Documentary Photography
- COMM 6555 - Documentary Photography
- COMM 6490 - Communication and Social Justice
- EHUM 6102 - Field Methods in Environmental Humanities
- EHUM 6120 - Environmental Humanities Internship
- ENGL 4991 - Internship
- ENGL 4992 - Service-Learning
- ENGL 5995 - Digital Humanities
- ENGL 7850 - Seminar in Digital Humanities
- GEOG 6139 - GIS Fundamentals and Applications
- GEOG 6140 - Methods in Geographic Information Systems
- GNDR 3695 - Community Engagement and Service Learning
- POLS 3300 - Introduction to Public Administration
- POLS 3320 - Introduction to Public Policy and Analysis
- POLS 3601 - Community Engaged Learning
- POLS 4900 - Internship: Local
- POLS 4901 - Internship: Utah State Legislature
- POLS 4902 - Internship: Washington, D.C. National
- POLS 4903 - Internship: International
- POLS 4904 - Senator Bennett Seminar
- POLS 4905 - Resident Scholar Think Tank with John Price
- POLS 6004 - Qualitative-Interpretive Research Methods
- POLS 6320 - Public Policy Theories and Applications
- POLS 6322 - Environmental & Sustainability Policy
- POLS 6525 - Engaging Volunteers in Public & Nonprofit Organizations
- POLS 6550 - Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations
- POLS 6570 - Management of Nonprofit Organizations
- WRTG 3040 - Digital Storytelling
- WRTG 5830 - Digital Publishing and Editing
- WRTG 6610 - Internship
- WRTG 7001 - Grant Proposal Writing