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  • AMST 301: Tutorial: American Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Independent research course.
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  • AMST 304: Senior Seminar in American Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Research seminar-related to the senior thesis (American Studies majors only).
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  • AMST 381: American Science Fiction and the Twentieth Century

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    AMST-381, American Science Fiction and the Twentieth Century Monday and Wednesday, 2:40-3:55PM Monday screening (optional), 7-10PM Instructor: Garrison LeMasters Defining the present by speculating on the future, Science Fiction (SF) is more than a pulp lit genre: It is the vocabulary through which 20th Century Americans imagined, contested, and consumed technology. SF ignites the Industrial Revolution; carries out the Cold War; invents the Internet. In this course, we'll look at SF and the scientist as culture-hero in turn-of-the-century America; the birth of "fan culture" in the 1930's; we'll examine how SF informs the American myth of progress and how it permeates the rhetoric of politics and diplomacy following the Second World War. We'll look at the body and SF, from the Ubermensch to the post-human cyborgs we've already become. We'll draw from periodicals like Amazing Stories and Popular Mechanics; non-fiction like Boyer's By the Bomb's Early Light (1985) and Davis' City of Quartz (1992); radio drama like War of the Worlds (1938); novels like Delilo's White Noise (1985) and Stephenson's Snow Crash (1992); a variety of short stories from SF's "Golden Age"; television like Star Trek (1966-1969) and The Day After (1983); cinema like Forbidden Planet (1956), Alien (1979), Koyaanisqatsi (1983), Blade Runner (1982/92), and Fog of War (2003); theater like that of Survival Research Labs (1978-2006); and computer games like Space Invaders and Suspended (1983). We'll make use of theoretical perspectives of Susan Sontag, Vivian Sobchack, Scott Bukatman, Langdon Winner, Darko Suvin, David E. Nye, and others. Using a private web-based wiki, students will regularly contribute brief reflections on SF concepts or themes of their choosing. Students will have the opportunity to write a final research paper or produce a short digital documentary that makes use of SF's richly aural and visual tradition. The class meets Monday and Wednesday, 2:40-3:55PM. Films will be screened at an optional session in New South on Monday nights from 7-10PM; students may also watch assigned films on their own. Garrison LeMasters Georgetown University
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  • AMUS 500: Museum Studies Foundations

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Museum Studies Foundations is the core course for the M.A. Program in Art and Museum Studies. We examine issues that have become crucial in today's museum world, such as ethics and responsibilities to world cultures. Readings, lectures, and discussions address topics related to the institutional identities and functions of museums, public programs, audiences, curatorial-conservation-education intersections, and the challenges of creating and sustaining a mission. Student research plays a central role in the course, and several classes are held in Washington museums. Prerequisite:    AMUS students
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  • AMUS 505: Museum Practice

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    A practice-oriented course which will examine the many behind-the-scenes activities beyond curatorial work: collections care, marketing, membership and external relations, and fund-raising. The course will emphasize the collaborative nature of museum work and involve group projects based upon case studies of museums in D.C. and elsewhere. The course will include first-hand experience with grant-writing and meetings with professionals from area museums. Prerequisite:    AMUS; senior Art History majors with permission
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  • AMUS 506: Museum Practice Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Designed to expand upon the program's core course through concentrated study of museum specializations that are introduced in AMUS 500, this is a practice-based course. A series of three or four-week modules - taught by professionals in the areas of conservation studies, exhibition development and design, technology and website creation, and institutional leadership - will emphasize the collaborative nature of museum work. Prerequisite:    AMUS; ARTH senior majors, with permission, fall registration only
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  • AMUS 520: Museum Education and Interpretation

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Students will be active participants in learning about museum education theory and practice. This course situates the functions of museum education and interpretation within the broader context of a changing paradigm in museums, one that gives more emphasis to the visitor's experience. During site visits to area art museums, students will hear educators discuss aspects of interpretation, programming, and research that are unique to their museum. Class discussion will include issues such as new approaches to interpretation, visitor learning in art museums, education programming for varied audiences, building audiences and community, and the relationship of mission to education and interpretation. A group project will allow students to put into practice elements of education programming. Prerequisite:    MA program students, Art History senior majors by permission
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  • AMUS 525: Curatorial Practice

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Curatorial Practice will address aspects of the curatorial position in a museum, with an emphasis on art museums. Conceived as a practicum, emphasis will be placed on current practice rather than theory. Through case studies, journal and newspaper articles, and site visits we will focus on two major curatorial functions: the development of exhibitions and the use of permanent collections for display. The goal is to encourage broad thinking about the evolving role of the curator in the twenty-first century museum, collaborative intra-museum partnerships, ways of using a museum's permanent collection to achieve a variety of objectives, and the process of developing a museum exhibition. Over the course's duration students will develop an exhibition, presenting it to the class in two stages: as a concept in a simulated exhibitions planning meeting and in its final form, as a PowerPoint presentation of a credible exhibition. Prerequisite:    AMUS or Art History major with 9 art history credits; others by permission
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  • AMUS 530: Museum Internship

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    Museum internships, required for the MA program, provide concentrated practical experience within selected museum departments as well as an overview of the operations of a museum. Some of our internships include a staff-directed seminar; most involve a linked research project as well as an internship journal. Expectations and placement will be discussed at the beginning of the semester as part of AMUS 500. Prerequisite:    AMUS students only
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  • ANTH 001: Intro to Anthropology: Ethnography as Biography

    3.00 Credits
    Georgetown University

    An introduction to the study of human social, physical, economic, and political adaptation within society. The course provides a comparative framework for viewing cultural institutions and social roles in traditional and complex societies. Introduces students to an overview of the subdisciplines and methodology of anthropology, and socio-cultural perspectives on such issues as kinship, family structure, gender roles, medical and religious belief systems, and culture change. The cross-cultural perspective should enable students to discover the variations and universal aspects of the human experience.
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