Welcome to Public History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

The Public History concentration within UNC Charlotte’s graduate history program offers students a unique combination of courses, as well as opportunities to learn new skills. In addition to our core courses in new media, historic preservation and museum studies, students may also take electives in other programs such as Public Policy, Architecture, and Arts Administration. The program’s new media focus (creating websites, CD-ROMs, digitizing images and collections) means that students will learn software programs that allow them to make multimedia presentations of their work. It also allows students interested in non-U.S. fields to create public history projects. Public historians with new media skills are very competitive in the public history job market; moreover, the combination of traditional history training with new media skills offers graduates a variety of alternative career choices in, for example, web development, public relations, and business.  (Note: Students are not expected to have new media expertise upon entering the program.)

For additional answers to your questions about public history and UNC Charlotte or to request a brochure, feel free to contact the program's interim director, Dr. Heather Thompson, by email or by phone (704) 687-4643.