Courses
Regularly taught graduate courses are listed below and organized by subfield. Please visit ClassInfo to read course descriptions.
Program tracks
Tracks in the HSPH program may be understood as areas of specialization. While masters students must be enrolled in a track, you have considerable flexibility to select an interdisciplinary curriculum plan.
- HSPH 8001: Who Owns the Past (offered every fall)
- HSPH 8002: Core Practices (offered every spring)
- HSPH 8005: Leadership and Futures in HSPH (offered every semester, students must register each semester they are in the program)
- HSPH 8101: Internship (offered every semester, students are required to take at least one, but may do two internships with this enrollment)
- HSPH 8004: Capstone (offered every spring, students must enroll in their second year)
Archaeology Track Requirements
- ANTH 5448: Applied Heritage Management (offered every spring, required for Archaeology track students)
Public History Track Requirements
- HIST 8122: Public Histories (offered every spring, required for public history track students)
Historic Preservation Track Requirements
- ARCH 5671: Historic Preservation (offered alternating fall semesters, required for Historic Preservation track students)
- ARCH 5673: Historic Property Research and Documentation (offered alternating spring semesters, required for Historic Preservation track students)
- ARCH 54xx: choose an architectural history course
Students must also take 9 to 15 additional elective credits, depending on track and internship options, to reach a minimum of 37 credits required for the degree. Examples of relevant courses include:
- AMST 8201: Historical Foundations of American Studies
- AMST 8202: Theoretical Foundations and Current Practice in American Studies
- ANTH 4101/8510: Decolonizing Archives
- ANTH 5028: Historical Archaeology
- ANTH 5269: Analysis of Stone Tool Technology
- ANTH 5402: Zooarchaeology Laboratory
- ANTH 5405: Human Skeletal Analysis
- ANTH 5444: Archaeological Ceramics
- ANTH 5601: Archaeology and Native Americans
- ANTH 8004: Foundations of Anthropological Archaeology
- ANTH 8244: Interpreting Ancient Bone
- ARCH 5410: Topics in Architectural History
- ARCH 5412: Architecture: A Global and Cultural History
- ARCH 5423: Gothic Architecture
- ARCH 5424: Renaissance Architecture
- ARCH 5432: Modern Architecture
- ARCH 5435: History of American Architecture
- ARCH 5452: Baroque Architecture
- ARCH 5672: Historic Building Conservation
- ARCH 5674: World Heritage Conservation
- ARCH 5677: Preservation of the Vernacular Built Environment and Cultural Landscape
- ARCH 5678: Preservation and Sustainability
- ESPM 5014: Tribal and Indigenous Natural Resource Management
- FNRM 5480: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Natural Resource Management
- FNRM 5480: Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Western Natural Resource Management
- GIS 5576: Spatial Digital Humanities
- GIS 5576: Spatial Digital Humanities
- GIS 5576: Spatial Digital Humanities
- HIST 5381: Minnesota History Workshop
- HIST 5797: Methods of Population History
- HIST 5890: Problems in American Indian History
- HIST 5910: Topics in U.S. History
- HIST 5920: Topics in African History
- HIST 5980: Topics in Comparative Women's History
- HIST 8025: Politics of Historical Memory
- HIST 8240: Topics in Research in Gender, Race, Class, or Ethnicity in the United States
- HIST 8390: Research in American Indian History