History

Overview

Our History program at Jackson State University offers courses in a wide range of fields.  Along with the department’s strengths in African American History, Public History, the American South, and the African Diaspora, the department’s faculty also teach classes on Women’s History, Film, the Middle East, Latin America, Sexuality, Religion, Disability, and many other topics.

Program Objectives

1. To use classroom instruction and relevant professional experiences, thereby, preparing majors to conduct historical research while acquiring the requisite knowledge, competencies and mastery essential to a history discipline concentration in a general liberal arts education.

2. To prepare students to either continue graduate study beyond the Master of Arts degree and/or engage in history related professional careers.

3. To prepare students to teach history in elementary and secondary schools and at the junior college level.

4. To serve the instructional needs of teachers, principals, and supervisors as required to maintain or improve their current teaching or leadership status.

5. To promote the scholarly study and investigation of the human historical experience as well as the dissemination of such research via both presentations at professional conferences and publication in the discipline.