Required Courses
- MUX 118 History and Critical Issues of Museums
(2-credit lecture course) - MUX 300 Museums Concentration Research Capstone
Courses Recommended as Electives for Museums Concentration Credit
These are courses that have been offered over the past several years and are relevant to the Museums Concentration. Consult the course catalogue for current availability. Other courses are eligible with adviser approval.
American Studies
- AMS 221 Colloquium: New England Material Culture, 1860-1940
- AMS 302 Seminar: The Material Culture of New England, 1630-1860
- AMS 411 Exhibiting Culture: An Introduction to Museum Studies in America
(4 credits; open only to members of the Smithsonian Internship Program)
Anthropology
- ANT 135 Introduction to Archaeology
- ANT 221 Archaeological Method, Theory and Practice
- ANT 234 Culture, Power and Politics
- ANT 249 Visual Anthropology
- ANT 253 Introduction to East Asian Societies and Cultures
- ANT 258 Performing Culture
Art History
All art history courses can count toward the Museums Concentration; the following are recommended selections.
- ARH 101 The Lives of Objects
- ARH 140 Introduction to Art History: Western Art
- ARH 240 Art Historical Studies: Collecting and Display in Europe and North America, 1400-1900ARH 260 Art Historical Studies: Museums by Artists
- ARH 247 The Art and History of the Book
- ARH 260 Art Historical Studies: Material Culture of the Victorian Era, 1840-1890
- ARH 268 The Artist's Book in the 20th century
- ARH 290 Collecting the Past: Art, Artifact, and Ancient America
- ARH 294 Art History-Methods, Issues, Debates
- ARH 352 Colonization and Visual Culture
Studio Art
- ARS 171 Introduction to the Materials of Art
- ARS 388 Advanced Architecture: Complex Places, Multiple Spaces
Chemistry
- CHM 100 Perspectives in Chemistry: Chemistry of Art Objects
- CHM 111 Chemistry I: General Chemistry
- CHM 118 Advanced General Chemistry
Classical Languages and Literature
- CLS 227 Classical Mythology
Computer Science
- CSC 106 Introduction to Computing and the Arts
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CSC 260 Programming Techniques for the Interactive Arts
Education and Child Study
- EDC 235 Child and Adolescent Growth and Development
- EDC 238 Educational Psychology
- EDC 305 The Teaching of Visual Art in the Classroom
- EDC 342 Growing Up American: Adolescents and Their Educational Institutions
- EDC 347 Individual Differences Among Learners
- EDC 390 The Teaching of Science, Engineering and Technology
Film Studies
- FLS 200 Introduction to Film Studies
First Year Seminars
- FYS 197 On Display: Museums, Collections, and Exhibitions
Geosciences
- GEO 112 Archaeological Geology of Rock Art and Stone Artifacts
- GEO 221 Mineralogy
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GEO 231 Invertebrate Paleontology and the History of Life
History
- HST 101 Introduction to Historical Inquiry
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HST 390 Teaching History
History of Science
The History of Science offerings change regularly; other relevant courses in this area of study can count towards the Museums Concentration provided the course is approved by the Museums Concentration Advisory Committee.
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HSC 207: The Technology of Reading and Writing
Museums Concentration
- MUX 117 Collecting 101 (Interterm course, next offered 2014)
Philosophy
- PHI 233 Aesthetics
- PHI 260 Hermeneutics: Meaning and Interpretation
Sociology
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SOC 319 Visual Sociology
Selection of Recommended Five College Courses
The following are Five College courses that are recommended for Museum Concentration credit. Consult current course catalogue to check availability.
Amherst College
Anthropology
- ANTH 41-01 Visual Anthropology
- ANTH 332-01 Contemporary Anthropology
Art & Art History
- ARHA 92-05 Art & its Display
- ARHA 80-01 Museums and Society
Geology
- GEOL 224-01 Vertebrate Paleontology
History
- HIST 99-01 Writing the Past
Hampshire College
Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
- HACU 0112-1 Investigating Women's Art
- HACU 0120-1 The Anatomy of Pictures: Visual Cultures
Interdisciplinary Arts
- IA 0166-1 Introduction to Art Education
Social Science
- SS 0203-1 Artivism and the Social Imagination
- SS 0258-1 Preserving the Past
Mount Holyoke College
Anthropology
- ANTHR 216-01 Collecting the Past
- ANTHR 310-01 Visual Anthropology in a Material World
- ANTHR 334-01 Memory, History & Forgetting
Art History
- ARTH 310-01 Who Owns the Past?
University of Massachusetts at Amherst
Anthropology
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ANTHRO 325 Analysis of Material Culture
Art & Art History
- ART 310/1 Visual Arts & Human Development I & II
- ART-HIST 782 Museum Studies
Biology
- BIO 392C Museum Specimen Prep
History
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HIST 391P Politics of Preservation
- HIST 659 Public History
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HIST 661 American Material Culture
