HISTORY DEPARTMENT 12/7/72 GC willing to allow the History Department to offer weekend graduate courses as an experiment. 5/15/85 Art History track within the History M.A. Program approved. 1/15/03 Social Studies concentration approved. 5/4/07 Museum Studies track in the M.A. in History program approved. Graduate certificate program in Museum Studies approved. 6/11/07 Approved change in required credit hours for graduate certificate program in Museum Studies. 12/13/07 Approved suspending the Social Studies specialization program in the History M.A. program. 11/19/09 Approved modifications in M.A. in History and M.A. in History with Museum Specialization: 1) required writing sample for admission and 2) increased total credit hours from 32 to 36. 10/14/10 Museum Studies certificate changes approved: completion hours changed from 20 to 16; dropping the 4 credit elective, and creating a new required course, HIS 598, replacing the required PAD 651. 2/03/14 Hisstory 4-3 credit hour coyurse revisions approved. 2/1/18 M.A. in History courses changed from 4 to 3 credits and the reduction in credits will be more in line with other programs. Museum Studies specialization will change from 38 to 30-33 total credits because it is interdisciplinary and there is limited control over when certain courses will be offered.