MASTER OF ARTS IN PUBLIC HISTORY Exploring the past to inform our understanding of the present
Public history students are trained in traditional Prerequisites for admission include a historical skills (research, analysis, bachelor's degree from an accredited college or FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE communication) but with an emphasis on university, a minimum grade point average of Internships creating and delivering historical scholarship to 3.0 and an appropriate level of achievement on A number of half-time, ten-month internships diverse audiences. Graduate work in public the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) provide stipends of approximately $9,500 and history prepares students for careers in General Test. Students concentrating in partial tuition waiver. Students often complete museums, historical societies, archives and European history will be expected to multiple internships during the program. In libraries, historic preservation organizations, demonstrate competence in a relevant foreign order to receive full consideration, applications government agencies, corporations, and language. An undergraduate history major is should be complete by February 1. historical consulting firms. not required, but a student must have experience in upper-level history before being Fellowships The public history program at IUPUI offers admitted. IUPUI Graduate Fellowships are available in students a combination of classroom instruction limited number to first-year graduate students. and practical experience in applying the INTERNSHIPS These fellowships are for twelve months. They historian's skills in the public arena. The Internships are an important part of the public carry a stipend of $12,000 and include a curriculum is also designed to inform students history curriculum at IUPUI. They add substantial tuition waiver. The deadline for of career options and make them aware of the challenging work assignments and practical completed applications is February 1. professional and ethical dimensions of public experience to student training. Students in history. Dual degree programs in library public history must complete four credit hours JOB PLACEMENT science/history and philanthropic in an internship at an appropriate historical Throughout the master's program, public studies/history permit students to combine agency or organization. Generally, students history students meet with local and visiting study for two degrees and thus take fewer work half-time (twenty hours per week) for ten professionals. Beginning with their first credit hours than would be required for the months for a total of four hours of credit, internship and seminar, students learn to separate degrees. Students may also enroll in although in special circumstances one-quarter enhance and extend their skills and to perfect some courses offered in Museum Studies. time (ten hours per week) internships can be their resumes. As students near completion of arranged. Summer internships are also the program faculty and guest speakers CURRICULUM available in limited numbers. conduct workshops on searching for The public history curriculum (36 credit hours) professional positions, applying, interviewing, allows students to create their own areas of The Department of History makes all internship and negotiating an employment contract. specialization based on personal interests and arrangements and assigns students based on career goals. All students in their first semester institutional need and student merit and While some graduates have established take Introduction to Public History. preference. Interns can gain experience in consulting businesses or work for private In this seminar students investigate the areas such as museum curation and historical organizations or state agencies in principles of delivering historical scholarship to interpretation, historic preservation Indianapolis, others have accepted jobs further diverse audiences in various formats: museum documentation and planning, oral history, afield. One works for a county historical society exhibits, collections of papers, oral histories, researching and writing institutional histories, in New York; another works for the Ohio and historic preservation projects. In editing, and library/archival work. Monthly Historical Society. One graduate is a ranger for subsequent semesters students choose seminars provide opportunities for discussion. the National Park Service. Several are directors electives in public history specialties like or curators at museums. Graduates with joint historic preservation, community history, In recent years internships have included degrees with library science work in a variety of archives, editing, and material history. Electives Indiana Landmarks (a historic preservation archives. in allied areas like library science and museum organization), Conner Prairie (a living history studies may also be taken. museum), the Indiana Medical History CONTACT US Museum, the Morris-Butler House Museum, the Graduate Program ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS Indiana State Library, the IUPUI University Department of History Students who wish to be admitted to the public Archives and Special Collections, the Indiana Cavanaugh Hall Room 504L history M.A. program for the fall semester Division of Historic Preservation and 425 University Boulevard should submit their completed applications by Archaeology, the Indiana Historical Society, the Indianapolis, Indiana 46202 February 1 if they wish to receive full Frederick Douglass Papers, and the executive consideration for all forms of financial aid. offices of the National Council on Public (317) 274-5840 or 274-3811 Other applications will be considered as space History. http://liberalarts.iupui.edu/history permits. 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MASTER OF ARTS IN PUBLIC HISTORY Exploring the past to inform our understanding of the present
SPECIAL RESOURCES IN INDIANAPOLIS EXTRACURRICULAR OPPORTUNITIES Benjamin Harrison Home Indiana Historical Bureau Many students attend the annual O'Brien Charles Sanders Peirce Edition (critical editing) Indiana Historical Society Conference on Historic Preservation, the Children's Museum Indiana Humanities Council statewide Careers Workshop for history City-County Building (city and county records) Indiana Medical History Museum students, and state and local historical Conner Prairie (living history museum) Indiana State Archives conferences. Teams of student volunteers have Division of Historic Preservation and Indiana State Library researched and mounted exhibits on historic Archaeology (state agency) Indiana State Museum lighting and servant life for local house Eiteljorg Museum of Native American & Indiana State Supreme Court Library museums. On occasion the entire program Western Art Indianapolis Museum of Art (students and faculty) volunteers one weekend Frederick Douglass Papers (documentary James Whitcomb Riley Home to help with artifact stabilization at a local or editing) Morris-Butler House Museum regional museum. Herron School of Art and Design National Council on Public History Indiana Landmarks (private historic The Polis Center (Indianapolis research center) preservation organization) University Library (archives/special collections)
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