History Certificate
Degree: Certificate
Major: History
Hours: 18
History Overview
The Â鶹ӳ»Ó°Òô's graduate History Certificate program will deepen your knowledge of history through analyzing scholarship and then writing and defending your own scholarly ideas. You'll study with a unique group of teacher-scholars who'll impart their knowledge of history and current trends in the discipline but will also give you the research, writing and critical-thinking skills to work in a variety of fields where today’s real world meets meaningful interpretations of the past.
The 18-hour program includes six fascinating classes with professors offering personalized attention on a schedule suited for working people.
This program sets you up for a career as an archivist, editor, educator, information manager, journalist, records manager, researcher or historian for corporations and nonprofits. The curriculum for this program advances the applications and relevancy of history while strengthening research and writing skills. Your program will culminate in a thesis and defense or an oral defense of your coursework.
History Courses You May Take
Graduate seminar in Witchcraft and the Occult in Early Modern Europe: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. This course examines the role of western occult philosophies in the revival of learning from the Renaissance to the seventeenth centuries.
Graduate Seminar in the Holocaust: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. A seminar on the Holocaust in the context of German and European history of the period.
Graduate Seminar in American Slavery: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. A seminar on the history of American slavery.
Graduate Seminar – American Revolution: More intense study, additional assignments and higher expectations than the undergraduate course. A seminar exploring the causes, progress and consequences of the American Revolution from the 1750s into the early 1800s.
Graduate Seminar in US Women's History to 1877: This course provides a historical overview of women's roles and constructions of gender in U.S. history beginning in early North America to 1877. It provides an understanding of essential concepts and methods of feminist inquiry, as well as a broad range of gender issues concentrating on how women of different ethnicities, regions, classes, and ages experienced and shaped their daily lives under the constraints of a given era. More intense study, additional assignments, and higher expectations than the undergraduate course.
Career Paths for History
History can open a variety of doors to exciting and rewarding careers. Many of our graduates have gone on to careers in secondary and higher education or public history. Others have put the historian’s transferable skills to good use by building careers in state and local government, law and military service or business and industry. Regardless of where you go in the future, you'll leave with new insights into a wide array of historical developments, ideas and personalities, enhancing your understanding of our ever-changing world.
Primary Careers
Teacher, lawyer, library scientist
- Education
- Government or public service
- Business
- Law
- Public history
- Politics
- Public and private schools
- Colleges and universities
- Government agencies
- Political campaigns
- Museums and libraries