How Are Public Historians Trained at CCSU?
At CCSU, our M.A. Program in Public History combines academic coursework, job-specific skills and field-based experience to prepare students for work in museums, historical societies, local and community history and heritage tourism. These careers offer exciting opportunities for preserving, interpreting and researching the past. Many of our students are also professional educators who use their degree to energize their classroom teaching, while others are dedicated amateur historians committed to exploring their communities’ stories. With CCSU’s central location in New Britain, the M.A. Program in Public History uses Connecticut as its field lab, drawing on the state’s wealth of museums, historical societies, archives and historic sites. CCSU maintains institutional affiliations with Amistad America, The Antiquarian and Landmarks Society and is home to Connecticut History, the scholarly journal of the Association for Connecticut History. CCSU’s History Department also includes the Sta
