The minor in historical teaching and practice will require evidence of mastery at the level of the graduate oral examination. This will be accomplished according to each student’s particular choice of curricular and work-based experiences, developed in conjunction with their minor-field advisor. The coursework common to all students in the minor includes:

1. Historical Teaching and Practice Discussion Group: students will enroll for one unit of credit (through H575) for at least one semester’s attendance in this monthly student-faculty reading and discussion group.

Students in the minor will also enroll in at least one of the following two courses:

2. Colloquium in Historical Practice

This course, to be taken after a student has completed H601, will analyze the context of historical practice as it has developed in a variety of venues, including museums and historic sites, the publishing world, new media, and the realm of government and policy.

3. Historical Teaching and Practice

Students may take their choice of the World, College, or US history teaching options now offered, in order to examine the underpinnings of historical pedagogy and to sharpen their own skills in bringing historical interpretation into the classroom.

In addition, students are encouraged to add relevant coursework through one or more of the following options:

Practicum

A practicum may be constructed in any one of the following ways:

1) successful completion of H543, “Practicum in Public History,” based on a professional internship or position related to the student’s area of interest, with accompanying writing or other work deemed satisfactory by the faculty supervisor of the course; or2) successful completion of a semester as a graduate editorial assistant at one of the three historical journals published within the department, with an additional one- to four-unit reading course (H575) related to a relevant project of the student’s choosing (and not required of their actual professional work); or 3) teaching a full-term college-level class, with an additional one- to four-unit reading course (H575) in history-pedagogy theory.

Related Coursework

Other courses relevant to the minor include those which examine at length either

• the history, theory, and practice of historical or social-science research and teaching methods
• the scholarship of teaching and learning history
• historical or practical aspects of the media through which historical ideas are conveyed and received
• historical constructions of the “public”
• public and political responses to historical issues and controversies

In the history department, these courses may include (among others):

• H542 Public History
• H547 Special Topics in Public History
• H620 Constructions and Deconstructions of Jewish History
• H645 Issues in the Historiography of Eastern Europe
• H645 History and Memory in Modern Europe
• H650 History in Public
• H650 Space and Place in History
• H650 Digital History
• H665 Oral History
• H710 Historical Writing in the Middle Ages
• H750 Memory of Catastrophe

Alternatively, students may count at most one relevant course from another department, as approved by their minor-field advisor. Examples of such courses might include:

• Anthropology: A408 Museum Practicum; P330 Historical Archaeology
• Arts Administration: Y525 Museum Management
• Communications and Culture: C560 Motion Picture Production
• Comparative Literature: C580 History and Theory of Translation
• Education: H504 History of American Education; J670 History of Curricular Thought in the US
• Folklore: F722 Putting Cultural Theory to Use
• Informatics: I541 Human-Computer Interaction Design
• Journalism: J500 Introduction to Mass Media Research
• Law: L766 Children and the Law in Modern America
• Sociology: S510 Introduction to Social Organization
• SPEA: V523 Civil Society and Public Policy
• Telecommunications: T576 New Media Production