{"id":624,"date":"2014-12-08T17:31:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T21:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/?page_id=624"},"modified":"2026-04-07T12:55:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T16:55:28","slug":"student-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/student-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Program in Museums and Society helps students find relevant <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/student-opportunities\/internships\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3232\">internships<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/student-opportunities\/independent-research\/\">research<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/krieger.jhu.edu\/museums-society\/student-opportunities\/jobs\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"3238\">jobs<\/a> in libraries, archives, museums and closely related areas of professional activity during and after their time at Johns Hopkins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How does Museums and Society prepare me for professional success?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Museums and Society builds the core durable skills most in demand in both the private and public sector.*\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Communication<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Practice communicating complex ideas successfully to public audiences in a wide variety of formats from public talks to exhibitions, websites, video, learning booklets and other media&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Collaboration<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Practicum courses are built around applied projects that students work on collaboratively and design in partnership with local culture and memory keepers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Creativity &amp; Problem Solving<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Conceptualizing and implementing multi-disciplinary public projects that mobilize objects and collections to explain, interpret and present culture, the past, and science for public audiences require creativity and applying a problem-based learning cycle to new situations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Critical Thinking<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Evaluating how museums, libraries and archives shape and are shaped by the societies of which they are a part and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Analyzing how things accrue and\/or change meaning over time as part of new contexts and collections require students to gather and assess relevant information; identify patterns; question assumptions; and draw well-reasoned conclusions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Museums and Society also builds skills in:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Self-Directed Learning<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Working on long-term applied projects across the course of a semester require organization, meeting professional deadlines, self-evaluation, and autonomy, all signs of self-direction.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Intercultural Fluency<\/strong>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Museums\u2019 diverse collections offer ideal opportunities for engaging with and navigating cultural differences.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>*Skills identified by the non-partisan America Succeeds group (which scraped data from U.S. job postings for over 1.5 million companies).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What our alumni are doing:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Museums and Society graduates get jobs across the public and private sector\u2014from world-renowned institutions to boutique firms and government agencies. Alumni have worked as:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Copyright attorney at the Library of Congress<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Curator at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Consultant at McKinsey<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Senior Exhibit Coordinator at G&amp;A Design Services Firm in New York<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director of Programs at Antiquities Coalition<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Public school teacher in Baltimore City<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Associate Director of Creative Technology at MAS experience design studio<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Heritage Preservation Grants Associate for the State of Minnesota<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Museum Educator at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Editor, Capital Projects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Archivist at the Office of NIH History and Stetten Museum<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Director of Operations and Marketing at Maryland Nonprofits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Assistant Vice President and Business Director at Sotheby\u2019s<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Program Coordinator for Maryland History Day at the Maryland Humanities Council<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Interested in graduate school?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Krieger School\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/advanced.jhu.edu\/academics\/graduate-degree-programs\/museum-studies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Advanced Academic Programs&nbsp;offers an online MA in museum studies<\/a>&nbsp;for professionals in the field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Smithsonian maintains a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/learninglab.si.edu\/\">directory of undergraduate and graduate programs<\/a>&nbsp;in museum studies and related fields such as archival science, conservation, etc., organized by state and country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Program in Museums and Society helps students find relevant internships, research, and jobs in libraries, archives, museums and closely related areas of professional activity during and after their time at Johns Hopkins. 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