Programs
& Courses
Master of Arts in Museum Education: Course Requirements

11 Course Credits in Education/Museum Education

1 Museum Education Course:
  • ED 280 Museum Education and Interpretation

1 Education Foundations Course:

  • ED 160 Comparative Education
  • ED 161 Sociology of the School
  • ED 162 Class, Race, and Gender in the History of U.S. Education
  • ED 163 Philosophies of Education
  • ED 167 Critical Race Theory Seminar: Issues in Urban Education
  • ED 260 Seminar in Educational Issues

1 Museum Foundations Course:

  • FAH 285 Museums Today: Mission and Function

1 Advanced Museum Studies Course:

  • ED 191 Museums and New Media
  • FAH 160 Museum History and Theory
  • FAH 284 Collections Management
  • FAH 287 Exhibition Planning for the Art Museum
    or HIST 289 Exhibition Planning for the Small Museum
  • HIST 290 Historical Interpretation of Material Culture
  • HIST 291 Collections Care and Preservation

1 of the Following or Other Approved Course in Psychology of Development and Education:

  • ED 130 Human Development and Learning
  • ED 230 Seminar in Psychological Studies in Education
  • ED 245 Life Span Development
  • CD 151 or 252 Intellectual Development of the Child
  • CD 161 or 262 Social Development of the Child

1 Education Curriculum Course or other Approved Course:

  • ED 110 History and Political Science/Political Philosophy Curricula
  • ED 111 Development of Knowledge and Reasoning in Science Curriculum
  • ED 112 Mathematics Learning Environments
  • ED 113 Language Arts Curricula in the Middle and Secondary School
  • ED 117 Interdisciplinary Elementary Curriculum
  • ED 181 Curriculum Development
  • ED 187 Teaching Through Drama and Improvisation
  • EDS 176 Grades Pre-K-8 (Art Education Curriculum)
  • EDS 178 Grades 5-12 (Art Education Curriculum)
  • CD 176 Children’s Literature

1 Museum Curriculum Course:

  • ED 281 Curriculum Development for Museum-School Collaborations

1 Museum Internship:

  • ED 284 Internship in Museum Education (a one-credit course that is the culminating experience of the student's course of study)

1 Seminar:

  • ED 282 Pro-seminar in Museum Education

2 Electives in Education (or related fields selected in consultation with a faculty advisor)
 

 

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