MA 260: Public History

For those enrolled in MA 260: Public History, this might be interesting to you.

The Master of Arts in History Program in the College of Social Sciences is hosting a lecture on heritage work titled, “Poetics and Practice of World Heritage Work in the Philippines: The Case of the Baroque Churches”. The lecture will be presented by Karl Albais who is World Heritage Sites Coordinator of the NCCA Cultural Properties Protection and Regulation Division.

The lecture will be from 6 PM to 7 PM and will be part of MA 260: Public History.

The MA History program seeks to advance the History discipline in the College of Social Sciences through graduate-level instruction and curriculum innovation. The MA History program equips the students with theoretical and methodological foundations in the discipline of history and provides them with relevant exposure and training on ethnohistory and local history. Barber and Berdan (1998) define ethnohistory as “an interdisciplinary field that studies past human behavior and is characterized by a primary reliance on documents, the use of input from other sources when available, a methodology that incorporates historiography and cultural relativism, and a focus on cultural interaction.” The crux of ethnohistory as a field of study is change in a culture – its nature and causes. On the other hand Local History is a field of study with focus on a defined spatial unit, e.g., region, province, town, or locality.

To know more about the program, visit our page.