The graduate program in history offers the master of arts degree
with concentrations in American, American legal, or public history. The
concentration in American history is designed for students who desire
increased competence in historical studies preparatory or supplementary
to teaching in that field on the high school or community college
level, who seek qualification for admission to a doctoral program at
another institution, and who wish to pursue a liberal education at an
advanced level. The American legal history track involves taking
several advanced historical courses in the Rutgers School of Law-Camden,
substituting for electives in the regular American history program.
The concentration in public history is designed to be
rigorously intellectual and thoughtfully practical, blending the
customary curriculum for preparing scholars and teachers with courses
on applied history. The specialized public history track is for
students who plan to work as historians outside the academic setting as
employees of historical societies and commissions, archives,
documentary filmmaking companies, museums, governmental offices, or
private firms.
