Museum Studies Minor

This minor is grounded in the department’s historic strengths - to offer students a critically informed understanding of how cultural artifacts have been, are, and can be collected and curated. At its core, the goal of the Museum Studies Minor is to introduce students to the approaches, history, and theories of museum and collection practices.

Students pursuing the Museum Studies minor must complete the following coursework, which comprises 16 credits.

One foundational course from the following list

HAA 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO WORLD ART
HAA 0020 - INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN ART
HAA 0030 - INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ART
HAA 0090 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY ART

The following three courses

HAA 1020 - EXHIBITION DEVELOPMENT
HAA 1025 - HISTORY AND ETHICS OF COLLECTING
HAA 1905 - MUSEUMS STUDIES INTERNSHIP

Note

The Academic Curator of the Department of History of Art and Architecture will work with Museum Studies minors to place them into internship positions that are approved to satisfy the minor requirement.

One of the following courses

ANTH 0582 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHEOLOGY
ANTH 0780 - INTRODUCTION TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ANTH 1541 - CULTURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
CLASS 0600 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDITERRANEAN ARCHAEOLOGY
HAA 1030 - SPECIAL TOPICS- MUSEUM HISTORIES
INFSCI 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO INFORMATION, SYSTEMS AND SOCIETY

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