Required Courses
The following graduate seminars are required of all museum studies students and are open to other qualified graduate students with permission of the instructor.
B 7000: Museology: An Introduction to Museum Studies
This course is designed to introduce students to the field of museum studies. It provides an
overview of museum history and contemporary issues. The class meets four times a semester in museums in the metropolitan area where different professionals discuss their projects and what they consider critical issues in the field.
B 7400: Museum Exhibition Analysis Seminar
In this course students analyze a group of exhibitions currently in the metropolitan area.
Occasionally, these exhibitions are clustered around a theme, such as re-evaluating the retrospective or
constructing identity through exhibitions. Each student studies one exhibition in depth, presenting
a class lecture on the content and ancillary programs in class one week, followed by a walk-through of the
exhibition at the museum the next week to evaluate the installation.
B 7100 and B 7200: Museum Apprenticeship I and II
All students in the program are required to do two internships. Typically internships consist of two
days a week for fifteen weeks, but hours are worked out on an individual basis with the institution.
Internships are available in nearly all museums in the city and other cultural institutions such as
the Department of Cultural Affairs, selected galleries, or art magazines.
Museum Studies Elective Courses
B 7500: Museum education
Taught by a museum educator, this course focuses on developing and evaluating museum education
programs in museums. In recent years this course has been taught by Sharon Vatsky, Associate Director of Education at the Guggenheim Museum.
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