Last generated: Thursday, July 17 2025 08:30 AM CDT
NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing
Last generated: Thursday, July 17 2025 08:30 AM CDT
NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing
3 TO 5 hours. 3 to 4 undergraduate hours. 4 to 5 graduate hours. May be repeated for credit. Extensive computer use required.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48881 | LCD | 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM | M | 106 | 2HH | Lopez Garcia, M | Meet on campus | |
| 3 hours Memory/Activism/Archives From Charlottesville, Virginia, to Cape Town, South Africa, to La Paz, Bolivia, symbols of racism, white supremacy, and colonialism are coming down as part of an overdue racial reckoning in the U.S. and around the world. This course explores the most recent debates regarding public spaces, monuments, and memorials through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on issues of history, race, ethnicity, violence, and memory. We will investigate the role monuments and memorials play in societies and examine the politics of memorialization and the resurgence of visual activism to decolonize public space. We will broaden our conceptions of monuments as texts beyond stone statues to include performance art, sculpture, paintings, poetry, fiction, film, and other memorial forms. We will also analyze formal commemorations such as war memorials, museums, national parks, and popular culture commemorations in music, movies, art, and on the web. Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago. | ||||||||
| 43540 | LCD | 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM | M | 106 | 2HH | Mensah, L | Meet on campus | |
| 4 hours Museums in Theory ritical Museology in the African Diaspora Instructor: Dr. Lucy Mensah Is it possible to decenter Western theories and practices of museology? This course approaches this question by exploring how curators, scholars, artists, architects, and writers of African descent have attempted to reconcile the imperialist histories of museums with their reparative possibilities, among them being the museums role in producing and circulating antiracist counter-histories. The course will consider how museum practitioners of the African Diaspora have addressed issues such as object display, collecting, provenance, interpretation, conservation, organizational culture, and institutional architecture. At stake are the terms by which black historiographies are produced, sustained, and protected in the face of dominant myths around the value of black memory and cultural production. Restricted to Graduate - Chicago or Graduate Non-Degree Chicago. | ||||||||
4 hours. Extensive computer use required. Previously listed as AH 532. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43541 | LCD | 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM | W | 303 | 2HH | On campus and online |
4 hours. Previously listed as AH 543. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43534 | LCD | 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM | R | 106 | 2HH | Quinn, T | On campus and online |
4 hours. Previously listed as AH 545. Field trips to multiple cultural sites in the Chicago area. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43539 | LCD | 03:00 PM - 05:30 PM | M | 209 | 2JH | Lopez Garcia, M | On campus and online | |
| Course Description Are museums still relevant to society today? What are the colonial histories and legacies of museums? Can we build a decolonial museum practice? How can we become critical cultural workers? In this seminar, we will examine these and other questions through the lens of critical theory, Women of Color feminisms, Indigenous studies, literary theory, and Ethnic studies, among others. The course provides a broad introduction to the history of museums, the various types of museums, cultural heritage sites and other sites of preservation and exhibition, and the legacies of colonialism and imperialism in these cultural institutions. We will grapple with issues of representation, extraction, collections and accumulation, racial justice, diversity, and memory. The primary goal is to provide students with a range of theoretical approaches, methods, and alternative museum practices to actively participate in re-imagining museums. | ||||||||
4 hours. Previously listed as AH 546. Field trips required at a nominal fee. Recommended background: MUSE 532 and MUSE 543 and MUSE 545.
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 45572 | LCD | 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM | M | 107 | 2HH | Lopez Garcia, M | On campus and online | |
| Memory/Activism/Archives From Charlottesville, Virginia, to Cape Town, South Africa, to La Paz, Bolivia, symbols of racism, white supremacy, and colonialism are coming down as part of an overdue racial reckoning in the U.S. and around the world. This course explores the most recent debates regarding public spaces, monuments, and memorials through an interdisciplinary lens, focusing on issues of history, race, ethnicity, violence, and memory. We will investigate the role monuments and memorials play in societies and examine the politics of memorialization and the resurgence of visual activism to decolonize public space. We will broaden our conceptions of monuments as texts beyond stone statues to include performance art, sculpture, paintings, poetry, fiction, film, and other memorial forms. We will also analyze formal commemorations such as war memorials, museums, national parks, and popular culture commemorations in music, movies, art, and on the web. Restricted to Graduate College. | ||||||||
| 47139 | LCD | 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM | T | 106 | 2HH | Mensah, L | On campus and online | |
| Museums in Theory ritical Museology in the African Diaspora Instructor: Dr. Lucy Mensah Is it possible to decenter Western theories and practices of museology? This course approaches this question by exploring how curators, scholars, artists, architects, and writers of African descent have attempted to reconcile the imperialist histories of museums with their reparative possibilities, among them being the museums role in producing and circulating antiracist counter-histories. The course will consider how museum practitioners of the African Diaspora have addressed issues such as object display, collecting, provenance, interpretation, conservation, organizational culture, and institutional architecture. At stake are the terms by which black historiographies are produced, sustained, and protected in the face of dominant myths around the value of black memory and cultural production. | ||||||||
4 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. Previously listed as AH 582. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s). Departmental Approval Required
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43972 | PR | ARRANGED | Quinn, T | Meet online at set times |
0 TO 8 hours. Prerequisite(s): Consent of the instructor. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s). Departmental Approval Required
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50395 | CNF | ARRANGED | Mensah, L | Meet online at set times | ||||
| 43973 | CNF | ARRANGED | ARR | 2ONL | Quinn, T | Meet online at set times |
0 TO 8 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Previously listed as AH 597. Extensive computer use required. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43536 | CNF | 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM | W | 106 | 2HH | Mensah, L | On campus and online |
0 TO 16 hours. Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory grading only. May be repeated to a maximum of 8 hours. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).
| CRN | Course Type | Start & End Time | Meeting Days | Room | Building Code | Instructor | Meets Between | Instructional Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 43537 | CNF | 11:00 AM - 01:30 PM | W | 106 | 2HH | Mensah, L | On campus and online |