Public History Initiative: Undergrad Minor Course Lists

List of Courses that Count for the Undergraduate Minor in Public History

Faculty interested in having a course considered for the public history minor should email Judy Yonkin.

Courses Offered Fall 2023

HISTORY

OUTSIDE HISTORY

Courses Offered Spring 2024

HISTORY

  • HIST 3750 /AMST 2752/ASRC 2750 - Black Women and Material Culture – Tamika Nunley

OUTSIDE HISTORY

  • ANTHR / ARKEO / NES 2465: Global Heritage – Adam T. Smith
  • ANTHR / ARKEO 4240: Collecting Culture: Museums and Anthropology – Frederic Leach
  • ARTH / ASIAN / SHUMM / VISST 2285: Introduction to Asian Art: Material Worlds – Pan and McGowan
  • PLSCI 4825: Museum and Park Interpretation – Sarah Fiorello and Sonja Skelly

Past and Upcoming Courses

Core Courses

  • HIST 2792: Monuments, Museums, and Memory: An Introduction to Public History
  • HIST 2482 – Recovering the Black Past – Tamika Nunley

Additional Courses

HISTORY

  • HIST 2006 / AMST 2016 / ASRC 2006: Understanding Global Capitalism Through Service Learning – Edward Baptist
  • HIST 2025 – Apartheid’s Afterlife
  • HIST 2335 – Making Public Queer History – Stephen Vider
  • HIST 2391 – From Terra Incognita to Territories of Nation-States: Early American History in Two Dozen Maps – Jon Parmenter
  • HIST 2415 / ASRC 2415: Biography and the Black Atlantic, 1400-1800 – Sandra Greene
  • HIST 2452 – Dress, Cloth, and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora – Judith Byfield
  • HIST 2481 – Slavery and Public Memory – Tamika Nunley
  • HIST 2571 – 9/11 and Its Aftermaths – Durba Ghosh
  • HIST 4041/6041 Atlantic Commodities – Ernesto Bassi
  • HIST 4337/6337 – The 1980s: Politics, Culture, and Memory in the United States – Stephen Vider
  • HIST 4634 / STS 4634 / ARTH 4720 / BSOC 4634: Curating the British Empire – Jessica Ratcliff

Outside History

  • AAS 4020: U.S. Cultures of War and Empire – Christine Bacareza Balance
  • ANTHR / ARKEO: 4225: The Prehistory of Power: Archaeological Visions of the Political – Adam T. Smith
  • ANTHR / ARKEO 4235: Meaningful Stuff: Interpreting Material Culture – Frederic Leach
  • ARTH / CLASS / ARKEO 1704: Statues and Public Life  – Verity Platt
  • ARTH 4620 / VISST 4680 / SHUM 4680: Art and the Remapping of the World – Kelly Presutti
  • ARTH 4630: Museum Histories – Kelly Presutti
  • ASIAN 4426: Narrating Choson Korea: History and Memory – Suyoung Son
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