Best Art History, Criticism and Conservation graduate certificate programs - Updated 2022

Admissions to the Material Culture Studies Graduate Professional Certificate have been suspended as of fall 2018. Students learn ideas, methods, skills and practices that prepare them for careers in higher education, museums, historical societies, architecture and design, product design, advertising, historic preservation, and journalism. Another goal is to introduce a variety of professional career paths for those interested in the relationship between objects, history, and culture.

BGSU’s Graduate Certificate Program in Public History offers advanced graduate training for professionals in the public history profession in the three-state region of Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. The program is practical and career-focused in its design, featuring courses in historical museum management, museology, local history, archival administration, and preservation studies taught by academic specialists in these topics and by expert practitioners in the field of public history historical museum management. The program of study is capped by an internship experience to give students actual hands-on experience in the field. Be enrolled in an appropriate graduate program at BGSU (History, ACS, or other related field), with a current graduate GPA of 3.0 or better.