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Public and Applied History Minor

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Interested in a career in Public and Applied History?  Want to work for a museum, historic site or park, cultural center, historical society, special archive and library, or some other historical-focused institution?  Then completing a Minor in Public and Applied History (PAH) is just what you need.

Museums and other public history organizations employ over 725,000 people in the United States.  A career in public history can be a rewarding way to focus on the historical past, help educate the public, and earn a good living at the same time.  The maintains an extremely useful which includes a free, of career opportunities, which may give you a sense of the types of jobs that are available in the field. 

 

Why Minor in Public History? 

The Public and Applied History Minor at Southern Miss can enhance your courses, improve graduate school applications, and bolster your ability to get a job and start your career.  In particular, the PAH minor will:

• provide a valuable credential for employment in public history institutions like museums, libraries, historic sites and parks, government, and private industry
• enable students from the Humanities and other majors to create or contribute to public history projects that serve their communities
• provide opportunities for students to put their research skills and intellectual interests into practice in the field of public history

 

What Will I Learn in the PAH Minor? 

While working towards the PAH minor, students will:

• learn about the varied career paths in public history
• learn about the history of oral history and the essential value of preserving community stories
• learn about digital history and the benefits and limitations of technology in public history spaces
• learn about different types of collections of historical materials and documents, the process of collecting artifacts, and the challenges of historic preservation
• learn about how history, memory, and memorialization influence and transform communities
• learn about the industry through hands-on experiences gained through a required internship with a museum or historical institution that builds job skills and adds to your professional portfolio, which can help you find a job in the field after graduation.  Our students have interned at some great Public History organizations, including

• • , Washington, DC
  • , Cleveland, Mississippi
  • , Hattiesburg, Mississippi
  • , Jackson, Mississippi
  • Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage, T抖阴app
  • , Fort Benning, Columbus, Georgia
  • , Camp Shelby, Mississippi
  • , Laurel, Mississippi
  • , Vicksburg, Mississippi
  • , New Orleans, Louisiana
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Minor Degree Plan:

Any student at USM may add the PAH Minor to their degree plan.  History majors are allowed to minor in PAH, and two of the core PAH classes can count as credit toward both the History major and the PAH minor.  For more information, see the .

The four (4) core courses of the eighteen (18) credit-hour minor include:

• HIS 350: Public History in Theory and Practice
• HIS 306: History in the Digital Age
• HIS 352: Oral History Methods