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Master of Arts in Museum Education: Course Requirements

11 Course Credits

5 MUSEUM STUDIES COURSES
  • Museum Foundations Course:
    ED 285 Museums Today: Mission and Function
     
  • Museum Education Foundations Course:
    ED 280 Museum Education and Interpretation
     
  • Museum Curriculum Course:
    ED 281 Curriculum Development for Museum-School Collaborations
     
  • Seminar:
    ED 282 Pro-seminar in Museum Education
     
  • Museum Internship:
    ED 284 Internship in Museum Education (a one-credit course that is the culminating experience of the student's course of study)
2 EDUCATION COURSES (one from each category)
  • Education Foundations Course:
    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 191 Psychological perspective with a focus on gender and rural issues (new in spring 2011)
     
  • Psychology of Development and Education:
    ED 130 Human Development and Learning
    ED 142 Education of the Exceptional Child
    ED 245 Life Span Development
    CD 211 Contemporary and Critical Perspectives on Child Development
    CD 151 or 252 Intellectual Development of the Child
    CD 161 or 262 Social Development of the Child
4 ELECTIVES, DEPENDING ON CONCENTRATION (no category requirements)
Note: These are recommendations
  • Math and Science
    ED 111 Development of Knowledge and Reasoning in Science Curriculum
    ED 112 Mathematics Learning Environments
    ED 191 Understanding and tapping student resources for learning
    ED 224 Theory and Research in Early Childhood and Elementary Mathematics Education
    ED 225 Theory and Research in Elementary and Middle School Mathematics Education
    ED 182/CD 145 Technological Tools for Thinking and Learning
    ED 119 Development of Knowledge and Reasoning in Engineering Education
    ED 129 The Practice of Teaching Engineering and Design
    ED 121 The Practice of Teaching Science
    ED 122 The Practice of Teaching Mathematics
    ED 211 Some of What Matters about Matter: Intensive Properties
    ED 212 Conceptual Distinctions: The Case of Heat and Temperature
    ED 213 Earth's Energy Balance
    Science, math, or engineering courses as needed
     
  • Art Education and Art History:
    EDS 175 Art Education Foundation PreK-8 (with permission of instructor)
    EDS 177 Art Education Foundation 5 -12 (with permission of instructor)
    CD 178 Creative Movement and Body Language
    CD 179 Child Art
    FAH 160 Museum History and Theory
    FAH 101 Historiography & Methodology (with permission of instructor)
    ANTH 162 Anthropological Approaches to Art & Aesthetics
    Art history courses as needed
     
  • History, Classics, and Anthropology:
    ED 110 History and Political Science/Political Philosophy Curricula
    ED 113 Language Arts Curricula in the Middle and Secondary School
    CD / ED 116 Interdisciplinary Elementary Curriculum
    ED 184 Geography in the Curriculum
    HIST 200 Graduate Historiography
    HIST 290 Historical Interpretation of Material Culture
    ANTH 132 Myth, Ritual and Symbol
    AMER 185 Seminar: Native American Issues: Politics of Representation
    History, Classics, or anthropology courses as needed
     
  • Museum Studies Courses:
    ED 191 Museums and New Media
    HIST 289 Exhibition Planning
    ED 292 Museums and Online Learning
    UEP 191 Philanthropy and Fundraising

 

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