ARTS 372 Topics in Museum Studies
This course considers topics of current or relevant importance in museum studies and is offered for variable credit. Topics will change from semester to semester. If more than one topics course is taken in fulfillment of the major, they must be different course titles. Topics may include, but are not limited to: museum history, curatorial practice, public art, alternative art histories, and decolonization and repatriation.
Note: This course is repeatable for credit with different topics.
Special information
2-4 Undergraduate credits
Effective January 1, 2026 to present
Meets graduation requirements for
Learning outcomes
General
- Express the impact of visual art and how it is presented in museums and communities.
- Examine how artists and curators challenge racism, sexism, ableism, and colonialism in their work.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how museums, curators, artists, and educators engage with communities, particularly those who have been historically excluded.
- Apply understandings of art historical analyses to museums and curating.
- Analyze a specific area of museum studies and formulate their own response.
Minnesota Transfer Curriculum
Goal 6: The Humanities and Fine Arts
- Demonstrate awareness of the scope and variety of works in the arts and humanities.
- Understand those works as expressions of individual and human values within a historical and social context.
- Respond critically to works in the arts and humanities.
- Engage in the creative process or interpretive performance.
- Articulate an informed personal reaction to works in the arts and humanities.