Three elective courses chosen in consultation with, and approved by, a museum studies adviser. The electives offer students the opportunity to take courses to further their knowledge of objects and collections, institutions, and society in many departments in the university. These courses are selected from approved 300- and 400-level courses in the three thematic areas (Objects and Collections, Institutions, and Society).
Students are required to select electives from at least two of the following groups: Institutions; Objects & Collections; Society.
Institutions
ENVIRON 449 Organizational Theory and Change
MO 324 Organizational Design
RCSSCI 310 Globalization in History: The Making of the Modern World
RCSSCI 311 Contemporary Globalizations
RCSSCI 315 International Grassroots Development
RCSSCI 330 Urban and Community Studies I
SOC 457 Sociology of Nationalism
SOC 458 Sociology of Education
SOC 460 Social Change
Objects & Collections
AMCULT 335 Arts and Culture in American Life
ANTHRCUL 338 The Arts in Anthropological Perspective
COMM 475 Visual Communication
HISTART 306 Exhibiting Mesopotamia
HISTART 334 Women in the Visual Arts: Images and Image-Makers
HISTART 394 Special Topics: Art/Modernity/Asia
HISTART 406 Looking at African Things
HISTART 407 Introduction to Museum Practice
HISTART 415 Studies in Gender and the Arts
HISTART 420 National Identity in American Art
MUSMETH 406 Special Problems in Museum Methods
RCHUMS 305 Cultural Confrontation in the Arts
RCHUMS 333 Art and Culture
Society
ANTHRCUL 330 Culture, Thought, and Meaning
ANTHRCUL 347 Race and Ethnicity
ANTHRCUL 374 Language and Culture
CAAS 362 Expressive Cultures of the Black Atlantic: Vision and Time
CAAS 364 Mass Media and Social Identities
COMM 361 Mediated Communication
COMM 371 Media, Culture, and Society
COMM 473 Cross-Cultural Communication
COMM 381 Media Impact on Knowledge, Values and Behavior
COMPLIT 490 Comparative Cultural Studies
ENGLISH 319 Literature and Social Change
ENGLISH 326 Community Writing and Public Culture
ENVIRON 304 Topics in Culture and Environment
HISTORY 341 Nations and Nationalism
POLSCI 315 Media and Public Opinion
POLSCI 415 Inside Washington
PSYCH 319 Empowering Families and Communities
PSYCH 346 Learning and Memory
PSYCH 347 Perception
PSYCH 348 Psychology of Thinking
PSYCH 356 Educational Psychology
SAC 366 Topics in Film, Television and Popular Culture
SAC 368 Topics in Digital Media Studies
SAC 376 Digital Media Theory
SAC 441 National Cinemas
SAC 485 The Global Screen
Those students seeking elective credit for courses not directly focused on the museum will have the opportunity to make critical ties back to the field through the completion of mentored writing assignments. To receive elective credit for a course that is not explicitly museum-focused, a student will be required to write a brief (5-page) rationale paper that addresses the relationship between the content of the course and issues considered in the two museum studies core courses, MUSEUMS 301 and 401. The academic staff of the Museum Studies Program will evaluate these papers.
