Archives, Advanced Certificate

Archives, Advanced Certificate is a program taught at Pratt Institute, USA. The program is offered in campus-based modes with full-time options.

The Archives, Advanced Certificate prepares students to become archivists. Students use archival principles and practices to collect, manage, preserve, and provide access to records with enduring value, including records created by individuals, families, and organizations, in analog and digital formats. The certificate frames archives as memory institutions that support scholarly, historical, legal, genealogical, and personal research.

The program is offered as graduate coursework in the School of Information. It can be taken within the School of Information’s M.S. in Library and Information Science, or as a post-master’s program. For the post-master’s program, applicants submit an online application form, a nonrefundable application fee, official transcripts uploaded online at application, a statement of purpose online (approximately two pages), a current résumé online, and two letters of recommendation requested online.

The minimum requirements for admission in Archives, Advanced Certificate at Pratt Institute for all applicants (Domestic or International) are:

• program specific academic requirment set by Pratt Institute.
• English Language OR any other language requirments as set by Pratt Institute as pre-requiste for admission in Archives, Advanced Certificate.

Note: Please check the university website in the link below.

Applicants to the post-master’s Advanced Certificate program must:

• hold a master’s degree in library science, information science, or similar, from an ALA-accredited master’s program;
• submit the online application form, nonrefundable application fee, and official transcripts (uploaded online at application);
• submit a statement of purpose (approximately two pages) online;
• submit a current résumé online; and
• request two letters of recommendation online from employers, professors, or others able to judge the applicant’s potential for graduate study.

Please check detail of study units at https://www.pratt.edu/information/advanced-certificates/archives-advanced-certificate/

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