圣约翰大学

St. John’s University is the only institution in New York City – and one of a dozen nationwide – that offers you the opportunity to complete both a Master of Arts degree in Public History and an American Library Association (ALA)-accredited Master of Science degree in Library and Information Science. Through our dual degree program, you can apply four courses (12 credits) to both degrees, saving time and money in accomplishing your professional goals.

Through our interdisciplinary and digital-savvy approach to instruction, you will prepare for a career helping colleges and universities, libraries, archives, and museums across the world identify, document, interpret, preserve, and facilitate real or virtual access to buildings and landscapes, artifacts, electronic and paper record and documents, and other cultural resources. We offer mixed-mode instruction featuring face-to-face courses on the Queens and Manhattan campuses along with fully-online courses.

With the combination of both master’s-level degrees, you’ll become an expert in:

Locating, analyzing, and disseminating research materials in a wide range of formats and platforms

Understanding the legal and ethical issues relevant to research and instruction in library and information science and public history

Conducting both individual and collaborative research

Assessing individual and institutional effectiveness

Contributing to theory and practice supporting the fields of library and information science, public history, and digital humanities

Courses

This dual degree program allows you to apply four courses (12 credits) to both master’s degrees: HIS 401 Modern Historical Research; and 9 credits from among HIS 404/LIS 253 Oral History, HIS 510 History of Material Culture, HIS 512 History as Visual Record, HIS 506 U.S. Museums and Historic Sites, or HIS 525 Advanced Topics in Public History.

Career Outcomes

With the combination of a Master of Arts in Public History and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science, you look forward to an exciting career as a historian, archivist, curator, museum specialist, librarian, writer, or editor helping academic institutions, libraries, museums, and cultural centers across the world protect and share their resources.

By completing both master’s degrees, you become a trained practitioner of “living history,” able to master changes in research, publishing, image reproduction, and other areas of digitization. The changing nature of libraries, museums, historic sites, heritage tourism, and historical research requires professionals who are adept at facilitating information exchange, coping with an overload of information from diverse sources, sensitive to ethical issues related to collecting and exhibiting cultural property, as well as intellectual property issues, and who can be strong advocates for cultural institutions and information resources.

Career Outcomes: With the combination of a Master of Arts in Public History and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science, you’ll look forward to an exciting career as a historian, archivist, curator, museum specialist, librarian, writer, or editor helping academic institutions, libraries, museums, and cultural centers across the world protect and share their resources.

By completing both master’s degrees, you’ll become a trained practitioner of “living history,” able to master changes in research, publishing, image reproduction, and other areas of digitization.