The Program in Museums and Society encourages students in both the arts and sciences to explore questions central to the humanities through an investigation of material culture and the people and places that collect, preserve, interpret, and publicly display it.<\/p>\n
Museums and Society blends the conceptual with the applied, providing an innovative forum to connect academic work directly to the work of memory and culture keepers, including institutional actors like museums, broadly defined to include art, history, natural history, and science museums as well as zoos, botanic gardens, aquariums, and heritage sites. The program offers a broad spectrum of introductory courses and advanced seminars, including many practicum courses. Practicum courses are typically developed in partnership with galleries, libraries, archives, museums, heritage sites or community organizations and offer first-hand encounters with collections from across the academic disciplines and across the centuries.<\/p>\n
Culminating in archival and oral history collections, exhibitions, education programs, publications, and other public products, practicum courses make the work of the classroom available and accessible to general audiences, underscoring the relevance of a humanistic education both to students and diverse public communities.<\/p>\n
Students may earn a minor in museums and society, intended to complement their major field of study, or may take courses out of general interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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