Program Overview

Program Overview

The Historic Preservation Certificate Program is designed to provide students with advanced skills and knowledge necessary to function as professionals in a wide variety of fields pertaining to historic preservation and cultural resource management in the United States. Through this program, students gain expertise through courses in their chosen majors and advance those skills through the certificate program.

Foundational Proficiencies

The certificate is designed primarily for students who are currently enrolled in or have completed an MA degree in History or Historical Archaeology, or who meet the program admission standards for the MA Programs in History or Anthropology. An applicant not currently enrolled in one of the History M.A. programs or the Archaeology tracks of the Anthropology M.A. program must have a minimum 3.0 GPA in 15 semester hours of upper-level history courses.

Admission Requirements

Students not enrolled in one of these programs and accepted without the 15 semester hours of prerequisite work may be required to correct the deficiency before taking graduate-level courses.

Program Structure

The program consists of the following components:

• Core courses: Choose two of the following:
  • ANG 6196: Policies, Practices and Archaeology in Historic Preservation
  • HIS 5059: Graduate Methods I: The Historian's Craft
  • HIS 6083: Historic and Heritage Preservation Seminar
• Required Public Courses:
  • ANG 5990: Public Archaeology Seminar
  • HIS 6055: Public History Seminar
• Methods Courses: Choose two of the following:
  • ANG 5137: Nautical Archaeology Seminar
  • ANG 5173: Historical Research Methods in Archaeology
  • HIS 6285: Maritime and Coastal History
  • HIS 5077: Oral and Community History

Program Details

The program requires a total of 18 semester hours. The Historic Preservation Certificate Program allows students to acquire the advanced skills and knowledge necessary to function as professionals in a wide variety of fields pertaining to historic preservation and cultural resource management in the United States.