Core Courses

Two courses that focus on how historical information is gathered and disseminated are the central common experience for students in the program.  Both are required.

The fall semester core course on Public History  focuses on the many and varied ways that systematically studied knowledge of the past has been and can be presented in all the different media and formats--ranging from the academic monograph, to movie and video documentaries, to museum interpreters engaging a family on the streets of Williamsburg. 

The spring core course on the varieties of research into the past draws on primary documents, archaeology, and museums to extend our kowledge of the past using recent interpretations of colonial Virginia as a case in point. 

Seats in the core courses will be reserved until Collegiate Program students have had an opportunity to register for them. Thereafter, remaining seats in the core courses will be available to all William and Mary students. 

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