BA.MUST - Museum Studies
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Focus on Knowledge, Abilities, and Values
1. Exploration of museums and related cultural, historical, and natural heritage professions.
2. Understand the purpose and mission of cultural, historical, and natural heritage collections, galleries, and museums.
3. Through selected electives, explore content appropriate to cultural, historical or natural history knowledge and methods of inquiry.
4. Gain experience in the practice of research, communication and engagement with a diverse public.
5. Through electives and core courses, explore skills and methods appropriate to understand and communicate significance of cultural, historical, and natural heritage care and interpretation.
6. Identify and apply professional ethics and policies related to acquisition, care, and distribution of cultural and natural heritage collections and exhibition.
7. Through the internship requirement, apply values, skills, and knowledge within a guided experiential course set within an appropriate cultural, historical, or natural heritage environment, such as a museum, archive, gallery, or special collection.
8. Identify and communicate personal and professional values and ethics related to the care and interpretation of cultural, historical, and natural heritage.