Museum Studies Certificate Program
University of West Georgia and the Atlanta History Center

The University of West Georgia and the Atlanta History Center offer a Graduate Program in Museum Studies. This fifteen-hour program offers advanced, graduate-level training in museum work with hands-on work experience at the Atlanta History Center. The museum seminars are taught jointly by public history faculty at the State University of West Georgia and by professional museum staff at the History Center.

West Georgia graduate students in the M.A. in History program may add the certificate to their degree by completing the certificate requirements as part of their public history curriculum. Other individuals may apply to complete the Museum Studies Certificate program if they have an M.A. in History or a closely-related field. Interested individuals should apply to the Graduate School and note on their applications that they are applying for this certificate program.

The Museum Studies program was recently featured in the February 2005 issue of the American Historical Association's Perspectives. To read an on-line version of this article, written by program founders Ann Mccleary and Pam Meister, please click on the following link: http://www.ahaonline.org/Perspectives/Issues/2005/0502/0502pub1.cfm

Museum Studies Certificate Requirements

• Theory and Methods of Material Culture Studies (3 hours)
  
• Three of the following graduate-level museum seminars (9 hours):
      HIST 6301 Administration of Museums and Historic Sites
      HIST 6302 Collections Management in Museums
      HIST 6303 Education and Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites
      HIST 6304 Exhibits at Museum and Historic Sites
  
• HIST 5486 Public History Internship (3 hours) at a museum selected in consultation with the public history faculty

Museum Studies Courses

Collections Management in Museums

Administration of Museums and Historic Sites

Theory and Methods of Material Culture Studies

Exhibits in Museums

Education and Interpretation at Museums and Historic Sites

More about the Museum Studies Program

News from the museum program

Application process for the Museum Studies Certificate program

For more information about the Atlanta History Center, visit the website at www.atlantahistorycenter.com

Museum Studies Program Coordinators
The program coordinator at the State University of West Georgia is
Dr. Ann McCleary
History Department
University of West Georgia
Carrollton, GA 30118
678-839-6041

The program coordinator at the Atlanta History Center is
Dr. Gordon Jones
Senior Military Curator
Atlanta History Center
130 West Paces Ferry Road NW
Atlanta, Georgia 30305-1366
404-814-4000

For more about the graduate program in Public History, click on http://www.westga.edu/~history/pubHistory.htm

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