Museum Studies Minor
Department: Art and Design
Bradley University’s Museum Studies Minor is designed to meet the needs of students in departments across the university, whose passions and interests are too vast to be met by any one discipline. It’s an excellent complement to any major, including art history, sociology, history, and beyond because it shows students that museums are places where all of these fields converge on a daily basis. The museum studies minor at Bradley provides students with foundations in the history of the museum as an institution and in the theory and practice of collecting, exhibiting, and preserving materials that define the purpose and function of the museum. This course of study is also designed to be flexible enough to accommodate each student’s individual curiosities and ambitions. The Core Courses give students a set of skills that are necessary for understanding how to approach objects in a museum from historical, theoretical and practical perspectives; how to write for a variety of audiences within the museum; how to frame historical narratives for a diverse and evolving public audience; and how to evaluate the successes and failures of museum exhibitions. Additional elective courses introduce students to a wide range of topics that are relevant to specific career tracks within contemporary museology: collections and exhibition research; museum promotion and development; material conservation; and museum education.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Courses (15 hours- one from each of the 5 categories): | ||
| Critical Museum Studies Seminar | 3 | |
| Critical Museum Studies | ||
| Applied Museum Studies Seminar | 3 | |
| Applied Museum and Archival Studies | ||
| Writing for Various Audiences | 3 | |
| Journalistic Writing | ||
| American Art | ||
| Advanced Writing--Research in Individual Discipline | ||
| Advanced Writing--Business Communication | ||
| Global Modern and Contemporary Art | ||
| Topics: Specified | ||
| Queer and Trans Histories of Art | ||
| Additional related writing intensive courses with approval. | ||
| Presenting Information for Various Audiences | 3 | |
| Introduction to Digital Humanities | ||
| Exhibit Production | ||
| Museum Internship | 3 | |
| Cooperative Education/Internship in Communications And Fine Arts | ||
| Electives (chose one): | 3 | |
| Public History (Museum Research) | ||
| Principles of Marketing (Museum Marketing) | ||
| Essentials of General Chemistry (Museum Conservation) | ||
| Fine Art in the P-6 Schools (Museum Education) | ||
| Preserving Endangered Global Cultural Heritage (Historic Preservation) | ||
| Total Hours | 18 | |