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Dan

bartletd@beloit.edu

Museum Studies

Hello everyone,

I did reply off-line but will add information about Michigan State University's Museum Studies Program here. We have an undergraduate minor and a graduate certificate. In addition, museum studies is one of three tracks that students can choose in the new MA in Arts and Cultural Management . This is the second year of the MA program. Information about museum studies can be found at http://museumstudies.msu.edu/.

Susan J. Bandes

Director, Museum Studies Program

Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) has a Museum Studies Undergraduate Certificate that they offer. Undergraduate : Museum Studies Program : IU School of Liberal Arts at IUPUI.

Hope this helps!

Gordon College in Wenham, MA has some museum studies undergrad classes. They come to our museum on a field trip every semester.

At Vassar College there is one undergraduate Museum Studies course taught each spring. It  used to be taught by our museum Director but is now taught by our Dutch Art Professor. It covers the very basics of museum practices and there are visits to the museum and discussions with the staff throughout the semester. The students, mostly Art History and studio Art majors, help organize a small exhibition in our project gallery as the culmination of the course. There is a high demand for this course, and I think if they added a more advanced museum class, it would fill up quickly but there are no plans to add any more classes. 

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_{When I attended the University of Hartford for my undergrad, I took a summer course called, "Museum Studies." I looked on their spring 2017 course catalog and they are now offering a similar course called, "Museum and Exhibition Practices" for 3 credits. I attached an image of the course description, hopefully it it clear enough to read.}

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At Fullerton College, we have four introductory courses for Museum Studies: ART 122 Museum Studies- Introduction to Gallery Practices, ART 124 Museum Studies-Exhibition Production, ART 125 Museum Studies-Exhibition Design and Careers and ART 115 Museum Survey. We will soon have approval for our Art History/ Museum Studies Associate in Arts degree, too. I am looking forward to seeing the compiled list! 

Thank you,

When I attended the University of New Hampshire in the early 2000's I took a basic Museum Studies class and did a for-credit internship at a local museum as an undergrad.  I believe these courses may have also been graduate courses that were open with permission to undergrads. 

At my undergrad at UC Berkeley I took a course under ESPM titled Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science. After touring all of the natural history museums on campus we picked a project and conducted research outside of class with a few class sessions devoted to this project. We also learned how to use the database ARCTOS, used with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, a skill currently helpful in my graduate Museum Studies Program at CU Boulder. The class culminated in a day of presentations that represented what our project is and how it is important to the collections we worked in. 

I hope this helps.

Hi Dan,  from 2006 to 2010 I taught in the Central WA University Museum Studies Program.  It and their Museum of Cultural and Environment were started many, many years ago by Beloit C. grad-- Marco Biccieri.  Best, Bill