Spring 2025 Museum and Exhibition Studies

Last generated: Monday, May 05 2025 09:44 AM CDT

NOTE: 500 level courses require graduate standing

MUSE 400

Topics in Museum and Exhibition Studies

3 TO 5 hours. 3 to 4 undergraduate hours. 4 to 5 graduate hours. May be repeated for credit. Extensive computer use required.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
45433LCD10:00 AM - 12:30 PMF1062HHQuinn, TMeet on campus
3 hours Publishing Fwd:Museums Journal Restricted to Undergrad - Chicago. Art Seminar Lab Fee $150.00 Flat Fee.
42065LCD - S11:00 AM - 01:30 PMW1062HHMensah, LMeet on campus
3 hours Museology/African Diaspora Critical Museology in the African Diaspora This course examines museological practice and critical inquiry through the framework of the African diaspora. This conscientious global approach to museum studies aims to shift weight from a Western, US-centric approach to a distributive, comparative engagement with how museums and alternative exhibition spaces are constructed, publicly discussed, engaged, and analyzed across the African diaspora. Studying museums as a mode of discursive practice will open up avenues for thinking about how blackness as a marker of identity, a cultural import/export, and a philosophical concept continues to be a site of contestation across the world, with museums serving as critical hosts for conversations about black authenticity, aesthetics, value, cultural memory, historiography, and many other topics. We will consider how global concepts of blackness pose as generative interlocutors of the museum, and how the inverse is also possible, that museology may open possibilities for thinking about what is at stake politically, socially and culturallyfor communities of the African diaspora.

MUSE 542

Exhibition Practices

4 hours. Previously listed as AH 542. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
42066LCD11:00 AM - 01:30 PMT1062HHMensah, LMeet on campus

MUSE 544

Public Engagement in Museums

4 hours. Previously listed as AH 544. Prerequisite(s): Approval of the Department. Restricted to Graduate College. Restricted to Museum and Exhibition Studies major(s).

Art Seminar Lab Fee $150.00 Flat Fee.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
42067LCD04:30 PM - 07:00 PMR2092JHJunkin Lopez, LMeet on campus
Public Engagement

MUSE 546

Seminar in Museum and Exhibition Studies

4 hours. Previously listed as AH 546. Field trips required at a nominal fee. Recommended background: MUSE 532 and MUSE 543 and MUSE 545. Restricted to Graduate College.

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
46464LCD10:00 AM - 12:30 PMF1062HHQuinn, TMeet on campus
Publishing Fwd:Museums Journal Art Seminar Lab Fee $150.00 Flat Fee.
42258LCD11:00 AM - 01:30 PMW1062HHMensah, LMeet on campus
Museology/African Diaspora Critical Museology in the African Diaspora This course examines museological practice and critical inquiry through the framework of the African diaspora. This conscientious global approach to museum studies aims to shift weight from a Western, US-centric approach to a distributive, comparative engagement with how museums and alternative exhibition spaces are constructed, publicly discussed, engaged, and analyzed across the African diaspora. Studying museums as a mode of discursive practice will open up avenues for thinking about how blackness as a marker of identity, a cultural import/export, and a philosophical concept continues to be a site of contestation across the world, with museums serving as critical hosts for conversations about black authenticity, aesthetics, value, cultural memory, historiography, and many other topics. We will consider how global concepts of blackness pose as generative interlocutors of the museum, and how the inverse is also possible, that museology may open possibilities for thinking about what is at stake politically, socially and culturallyfor communities of the African diaspora.

MUSE 582

Supervised Internship in Museum and Exhibition Studies

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

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
48300PRARRANGEDLopez Garcia, MOnline with deadlines
48299PRARRANGEDMensah, LOnline with deadlines
42303PRARRANGEDQuinn, TOnline with deadlines

MUSE 596

Readings in Museum and Exhibition Studies

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

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
48302CNFARRANGEDLopez Garcia, MOnline with deadlines
48301CNFARRANGEDMensah, LOnline with deadlines
42305CNFARRANGEDQuinn, TOnline with deadlines

MUSE 597

Project Research

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).

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
45255CNF11:00 AM - 01:30 PMM1062HHLopez Garcia, MOn campus and online

MUSE 598

MUSE Thesis Research

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).

CRNCourse TypeStart & End TimeMeeting DaysRoomBuilding CodeInstructorMeets BetweenInstructional Method
45256CNF11:00 AM - 01:30 PMM1062HHLopez Garcia, MOn campus and online