Announcements
Posted: Thursday, December 3, 2009Curricular Items
From the Chair of the Senate Curriculum Committee
Advanced to the Curriculum Committee
The following have been received in the College Senate Office and forwarded to the Senate Curriculum Committee for review and approval:
New Program:
M.A. Museum Studies
New Courses:
MST 622 Researching and Presenting Museum Collections. Prerequisite: Museum studies graduate student status or instructor permission. Methodologies utilized in museum acquisitions, collections management, multidisciplinary interpretation, exhibition design, and textual production. Theoretical and practical methods of exhibiting objects and publishing information about museum collections. Research methodologies, digital database models, conservation and collections care, alternative approaches to interpreting and contextualizing objects, and exhibition techniques. Elective course for museum studies collections management and curatorial practice specialization.
MST 624 Museum Archives. Prerequisite: Museum studies graduate student status or instructor permission.Study and evaluation of record-keeping systems employed by museums and the reasoning behind them. Analysis of the intellectual and physical environments that lead to optimum records management; documentation of individual objects and collections; acquisition, preservation, interpretation, and history of the museum’s artifacts, records, collections, and the institution overall.
MST 630 Visitor Experience in Museums.Prerequisite: Museum studies graduate student status or instructor permission. Current trends in visitor experience for museums. Making informed decisions on improving every aspect of visitor contact; fostering customer service; creating memorable exhibits that highlight authenticity, i.e., real environments and artifacts. Theoretical perspectives on “free-choice learning” and creating “third-place” environments.
SSE/MST 632 Teaching with Historic Places.Prerequisite: Graduate student status. Foundation for those seeking to develop and implement educational materials related to historic places. Service-learning at the sites where famous people lived, where historical events took place, and their teaching potential. Using one historic site as a case study; touring and meeting representatives to find out more about the historic place; determining the educational needs of the facility; creating curricular materials appropriate for the site.
MST 640 Museum Administration. Prerequisite: Museum studies graduate student status or instructor permission. Organizational behavior and leadership skills needed for effective management of a not-for-profit institution. Overview for emerging museum professionals; definition of the responsibilities, characteristics, ethical and legal guidelines for the museum administrator, from board and executive director to administrative roles at various levels within the organization.
MST 641 Reserve Generating for Museums.Prerequisite: Museum studies graduate student status or instructor permission. Basics of fundraising for a not-for-profit institution; overview of fundraising strategies, board responsibilities, development staff, and volunteers in garnering financial support. Fundraising strategies including prospect development, grant writing, annual fund drives, corporate campaigns, capital campaigns. Diverse methods of fundraising examined through role-playing and other activities.
MST 642 Museum Planning. Prerequisite: Museum studies graduate student status or instructor permission.Core procedures and principles of strategic planning for museums. Forming a planning committee, information gathering, writing documents, and fulfilling action plans. Role of museum trustees, staff, and community stakeholders. Methods for generating creative ideas for implementation; benchmarking success and rethinking mission. Application of principles to create effective institutional plans.
MST 643 Museum Marketing and Public Relations.Prerequisite: Museum studies graduate student status or instructor permission. Core components and principles of museum marketing and communication techniques including positioning, branding, and e-marketing. Methods for reaching old and new audiences through new media and creative partnerships. Resourcefulness in changing economies and aligning marketing goals to museum’s mission; application of principles to create effective marketing plans.
Course Revision:
MST 601 Theory and Method in Museum Studies(formerly HIS 665 Critical Issues in Museum Studies).Prerequisite: Museum studies graduate student status or instructor permission. Origin of museums and the discipline of museum studies; theoretical, practical, and legal aspects of museum collections. Collections care, responsibilities of museums as public institutions, object meaning, and case studies in collections repatriation. Required for museum studies.
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Advanced to the Interim President
The following have been approved by the Senate Curriculum Committee and forwarded to the interim president for review and approval:
Program Revision:
M.S. Professional Applied and Computational Mathematics, MS-NS
Course Revision:
ANT 324 The Human Skeleton
Course Revisions and Intellectual Foundations Designations:
NON-WESTERN CIVILIZATION
ANT 305 Peoples of Africa
ORAL COMMUNICATION
ANT 415 Seminar in Archaeology
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Curricular Note:
The course prefixes for the new PSM courses previously listed in the November 5, 2009, and November 19, 2009, issues of the Bulletin have been changed to the prefix ACM.
