Courses
MSTD-490 Museum Studies Internship (3)
This course allows a student to gain actual work experience in a museum, archive, or historic site operation. Internships must be approved by the program director in consultation with the student. Course requirements include a minimum of 45 hours on site for the term taken, a journal describing activities performed, an interpretative paper describing what the student learned about the organization, AND an analytic research paper on a aspect of museum studies, as appropriate to the particular internship experience, approved by the program director. The course may be taken as DEPT 490 in the student’s major or minor department under the guidance of a departmental faculty, but must still include the research paper as described above.
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Pre-requisites: ARTS-228D D- OR ANTH-228D D-
Restrictions: Including: -Program: Certificate Museum StudiesMSTD-496 Independent Study (1 TO 3)
Preparation of an analytic research paper on a significant aspect of museum studies. Topic must be approved by the program director. This course is only open to those students who have already received a Bachelor’s degree and who are working in a museum, archive, or historic site institution and who will use this to substitute for the 490 Internship requirement toward the certificate. Completion of the Independent Study/Tutorial Authorization form is required.
Attributes: YLIB
Pre-requisites: ARTS-228D D- OR ANTH-228D D-
Restrictions: Including: -Program: Certificate Museum Studies