Museum Studies Program
Course Offerings

Current Courses in the Museum Studies Program:

Spring 2008

• A special problems course in which students develop selected museum studies topics, by arrangement with program faculty. Directed study format.

MSST 803: Museums and Modern Technology
Faculty: Goecke

• Examines the use of digital technology in museums. Topics include communication strategies, digital image processing, collections databases, geographic information systems, CAD, animation, exhibitions, and web design. Students will plan and prepare a web site that deals with a museum-related topic.

MSST 804 - Museum Internship
Faculty: Eversmann

• Internship practicum supplementing theoretical and methodological background in administration, collections management, exhibition, research, interpretation, and public programming and services of museums. Students spend a minimum of ten full weeks, or the equivalent, at the University Gallery, Longwood Gardens, Hagley Museum, Winterthur, or other acceptable museum, or related institution or organization in the United States. Prerequisite: at least one semester course in Museum Studies, and permission of instructor.

MSST 866 - Independent Study
Faculty: Shearer

topics, by arrangement with program faculty. Directed study format.
• A special problems course in which students develop selected museum studies

Fall 2008

MSST/HIST667.010: Introduction To Material Culture Studies
Faculty: Grier
R 3:30-6:30

• This course offers an introduction to the study of American material culture, with an emphasis on social and cultural-historical approaches and research methods.  A series of readings introduces important themes (examples: the performance of class, gender, and racial identities; the commodification of everyday life) and ways that historians can work from artifacts as primary sources.  Students will produce papers based on both primary and secondary sources.  This class counts as a graduate readings course.

MSST 667.011: Introduction to Museums
(please note: this course replaces MSST 802: Leadership and Management of Museums, and fulfills the same requirement).
Faculty: Krill
T 3:30-6:30

• This course provides an introduction to the history of museums to the present day and examines selected current issues in museums management.

MSST 804 - Museum Internship
Faculty: Eversmann

• Internship practicum supplementing theoretical and methodological background in administration, collections management, exhibition, research, interpretation, and public programming and services of museums. Students spend a minimum of ten full weeks, or the equivalent, at the University Gallery, Longwood Gardens, Hagley Museum, Winterthur, or other acceptable museum, or related institution or organization in the United States. Prerequisite: at least one semester course in Museum Studies, and permission of instructor.

Spring 2009

MSST 606.011 - Issues in American Material Culture
Faculty: Grier

MSST 803.010: Museums and Modern Technology
Faculty: Goecke

• Examines the use of digital technology in museums. Topics include communication strategies, digital image processing, collections databases, geographic information systems, CAD, animation, exhibitions, and web design. Students will plan and prepare a web site that deals with a museum-related topic.

MSST 804.010 - Museum Internship
Faculty: Eversmann

• Internship practicum supplementing theoretical and methodological background in administration, collections management, exhibition, research, interpretation, and public programming and services of museums. Students spend a minimum of ten full weeks, or the equivalent, at the University Gallery, Longwood Gardens, Hagley Museum, Winterthur, or other acceptable museum, or related institution or organization in the United States. Prerequisite: at least one semester course in Museum Studies, and permission of instructor.

MSST 808.010 - Museum Education and Interpretation
Faculty: Krill

MSST 866.010 - Independent Study
Faculty: Grier

• A special problems course in which students develop selected museum studies topics, by arrangement with program faculty. Directed study format.