Credits: 3

Course Description: In this intensive seminar, you will gain an understanding of performance standards and develop the skills necessary for success in academic research and writing.

Credits: 3

Course Description: In this course, you will learn to understand and interpret information as the interdisciplinary approach to graduate studies is reinforced. Readings will introduce the concept of paradigms as an organizing principle for understanding and interpreting information.

Credits: 3

Course Description: This class will prepare you to meet the challenges involved in operating or working at a museum. You will learn museum management procedures, develop an understanding of the complexity of the museum world, and become a well-informed museum professional able to adapt to new challenges and opportunities.

Credits: 3

Course Description: The purpose of this course is to give you the opportunity to interact with professional colleagues in a museum or similar environment. You will work with a museum administrative officer to determine your project, its scope, and its outcomes. It is your responsibility to find a museum to work with and select a project that is of interest to you or one that is needed by the museum you select.

Credits: 3

Course Description: This course will explore the history and architecture of public museums from the late 18th century to the present. It will also dive into key issues involved with a museum expansion.

Credits: 3

Course Description: This course will give you an understanding of superior museum administration and management, preparing you to meet the challenges of directing and operating a successful museum.

Credits: 3

Course Description: Museums and their collections no longer stand apart from the communities where they reside. Increasingly, museums are called upon to interact with society in new and sometimes unexpected ways. This course will teach you how to strengthen a museum’s position within the community through exhibitions, educational programming, board development, and volunteer associations. A strong community footing can help a museum gain and maintain the patronage needed to survive.

Credits: 3

Course Description: Just as the types of museums are varied, so is the nature of their collections. This course explores how to make certain a museum’s collections mesh with its goals and aspirations.

Credits: 3

Course Description: Because education plays such a vital role in museums, it has become increasingly necessary for museum professionals to have a solid foundation in museum education. In this course, you will be introduced to museum education, including object-based learning, learning environments and theories, and how to develop effective educational programs in museums. Although the course is intended for those in the museum profession, it can be applied to the development of educational programs in other fields as well.

Credits: 3

Course Description: This course will introduce you to the history and nature of small museums in the United States and their significance to the cultural life of communities across the country. You will explore the unique issues they face in funding, staffing, exhibition development, community involvement, and more.

Credits: 3

Course Description: In 1957, Freeman Tilden of the National Park Service defined the concept of interpretation and pioneered its implementation in museums, parks, and historic sites. Tilden said interpretation is “an educational activity which aims to reveal meanings and relationships through the use of original objects, by firsthand experience, and by illustrative media, rather than simply to communicate factual information.” This course will introduce interpretation and how it can provoke curiosity about a topic in various media, such as exhibits and programs.