The Museum Studies Certificate program combines history, theory, and experiential learning to create a forward-looking curriculum preparing professionals for graduate school or work in a wide range of museums and cultural institutions. 

Online Curriculum

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Required Course

• MUSM:3001 Introduction to Museum Studies (3 s.h.)

 
Museum Studies Topic Areas - Students must select one course each from three of the four topic areas (9 s.h. total). They also must complete a fourth course (3 s.h.) from any of the topic areas.

Collection Care and Management

• MUSM:3003 / SEES:3003 Natural History Research Collections (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3200 / SEES:3200 Collection Care and Management (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3291 / ANTH:3291 Collection Care and Management (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:4200 / SEES:4200 Collection Care and Management (3 s.h.)

Exhibition Development and Public Education

• MUSM:3004 Exhibition Planning (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3078  / AMST:3078 /  GWSS:3078 /  SPST:3078 Archiving Women's History (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3105 Engaging Museum Audiences (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3115 / EDTL:3105 Museum Educations  and Interpretation (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3125 Museums in a Digital World (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3145 / ANTH:3145 / NAIS:3145 Excavation to Exhibit: Making Artifacts Public (3 s.h.)
   

History, Theory, and Culture

• MUSM:2675 / GRMN:2675 The politics of Memory: Holocaust, Genocide and 9/11 (3-4 s.h.)
• MUSM:2850 Museums and Social Justice (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3010 / ARTH:3010 Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries: The Dark Side of Art History (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3120 Museum Origins (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3237 / ANTH:3237 / HIST:3137 Politics of the Archaeological Past (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3250 / HIST:3250  American Stuff: Discovering History in Things (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:4081  / ARTH:4081  The Art Museum: Theory and Practice (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:4310  / FREN:4210  / WLLC:4210  Slavery Museums, Memorials, and Statues in the United States, Europe, and the Global South (3-4 s.h.)
   

Museum Administration and Management

• MUSM:3100 / ANTH:3112 Historic House Management and Preservation (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3130 Topics in Museum Administration and Management (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3131 Museum Evaluation and Visitor Studies (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3500 / ENTR:3595 / MGMT:3500 / NURS:3595 / RELS:3700 / SSW:3500 Nonprofit Organizational Effectiveness I (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3710 / JMC:3710 Fundraising Fundamentals (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:3720 / JMC:3720 Nonprofit Communications (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:4045 / LAW:8164 Art, Law, and Ethics (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:4150 / EALL:4130 Introduction to Grant Writing (3 s.h.)
• MUSM:4600 / MGMT:4600 Nonprofit Ethics and Governance (3 s.h.)

Museum Studies Internship - Students must complete:

• Either 2 s.h. in CCP:1201 Academic Internship plus 1 s.h. in MUSM:3091 Topics in Museum Studies
• Or 3 s.h. in CCP:1201.
• Additionally, students should not take 3 s.h. of CCP:1201 in a single semester. Instead, students who opt to take 3 s.h. of the internship course should divide the s.h. over two or three semesters (e.g., 1 s.h. for three semesters or 2 s.h. one semester and 1 s.h. another semester).

How to add the certificate to your program of study

Students may add a certificate program to their plan of study at any time.  Declaring a certificate will allow you to request a degree audit for the certificate requirements in MyUI.  There is no penalty to remove a certificate from a plan of study and one may be removed at any time.

Current BAS/BLS students can add a certificate program to their plan of study at any time by sending an email to their assigned academic advisor asking to formally declare the certificate. Once added, a separate degree audit will be produced.

How to remove the certificate from your program of study

Current BAS/BLS students can email their assigned academic advisor to ask to remove the certificate from their plan of study. There is no penalty to remove a certificate program from a plan of study and one may be removed at any time.