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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the intellectual, physical, legal, financial, social, and ethical challenges of preserving and providing access to museum collections. Through lectures, readings, hands-on activities, and field trips, students explore the theory and practice of collections management and learn how to utilize available resources for collections care in any museum regardless of size.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides an overview of museum and non-profit administration issues, including governance, working with a board of trustees, budgetary planning, fund raising, accreditation by the American Association of Museums, and museum ethics. Students gain practical experience in writing grants and preparing a conference-level presentation covering a museum administration issue.
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3.00 Credits
The material remains of the past provide a window into American social, cultural, and political life. Students will learn to interpret museum objects through study of the artifacts themselves through related artifacts and landscapes, and through other forms of evidence that expose their deeper meanings, including probate inventories, letters, diaries, newspapers, books, and maps.
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3.00 Credits
This course considers the public dimension of exhibit design, the needs and interests of varied audiences, different learning styles, and the best interpretive approaches. Classroom theory is combined with in-the-field application, with a particular focus on exhibit planning, teamwork and management, design elements, lighting, interpretation of objects and ideas, labels, and evaluation.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the causes of deterioration in museum collections, protective storage, collections care in use, disaster preparedness, policy development, needs assessment, funding, and preservation planning.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students identify an individual research project related to the student's area of interest. Students formulate project objectives, develop working parameters, construct a project design, and demonstrate an ability to complete a project and describe project results. Maximum six semester hours.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Students undertake professional work in a museum or related organization and demonstrate, describe, and apply classroom theory and practices under the supervision of a departmental faculty member and representative of the host institution. Students describe their procedures and experiences in a daily journal, portfolio, and supervisor's report.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
The Master's Project in Museum Studies functions as the non-thesis option to fulfill the requirements for the M.A. in museum studies. The project must be a significant contribution to the profession demonstrating the same scholastic abilities required for the thesis option. The project constitutes supervised independent work by the student on an approved topic. Six semester hours required for completion of graduation requirements.
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1.00 - 6.00 Credits
Supervised preparation of the master's thesis, with six semester hours required for graduation.
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3.00 Credits
Significant ideas of mathematics. Topics will be chosen from: voting theory, apportionment, financial analysis, linear and exponential growth, statistics and opinion polls. Designed primarily for liberal arts students. Does not apply toward the major.
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