Courses
The courses listed below count toward the ALM in Museum Studies. Courses marked (H) count toward the Harvard-affiliated instructor requirement. Some courses are offered both terms or in multiple sections. If all the sections are taught by Harvard-affiliated instructors, the instructors are listed by name (H: McManus and White only). Courses marked by a plus (+) are available via the Internet.
Note: To understand how the courses listed below fulfill program requirements, students should read the Requirements section.
Core Courses
- + MUSE E-100 Introduction to Museum Studies (H)
- MUSE E-101 Graduate Research Methods and Scholarly Writing in Museum Studies (H)
- CSS E-145 Issues in Museum Administration
Museum Studies Electives
- ANTH E-205 Museums and Cultural Property: The Challenge of Repatriation (H)
- MUSE E-110 Museum Exhibition
- MUSE E-115 Collections and Curation (H)
- MUSE E-123 Visitor Studies
- MUSE E-125 Preservation and Stewardship of Museum Collections (H)
- MUSE E-135 The Historic House Museum
- MUSE E-140 Inventing the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
General Electives
Anthropology Museums
- ANTH E-138c North American Archaeology (H)
- ANTH E-157 Muslims in the Modern World (H)
- ANTH E-160 The Archaeology of Boston
- ANTH E-162 Human Origins and Evolution: An Introduction to the Fossil and Archaeological Record
- ANTH E-171 Archaeology of the Silk Road (H)
- ANTH E-174 The Inkas (H)
- + ANTH E-175 Mesoamerican Civilizations (H)
Art Museums
- CLAS E-130 Introduction to Greek Art and Archaeology
- CLAS E-210 Ancient Greece through Its Coins (H)
- FOLK E-112 Folk Art, Folk Craft, and Material Culture (H)
- FOLK E-122 Irish Folklore and Folklife (H)
- HARC E-124 Art of Modern India (H)
- HARC E-127 The Art of the Islamic Book, 1250-1600 (H)
- HARC E-135 A History of Japanese Art
- HARC E-151 Michelangelo and His Age (H)
- HARC E-180 Making the "Athens of America": Art in Boston, 1870-1930
- HARC E-183 The Architecture of Boston (H)
- HARC E-190 Art Since 1940
- HUMA E-124 Cultural Memory in the Arts Today
History Museums
- HIST E-1146 Medieval Warfare and the Crusades (H)
- HIST E-1554/W A History of Three Russias: Imperial, Soviet, and Post-Soviet (H)
- HIST E-1572 The Holocaust: History, Representation, and Reaction (H)
- HIST E-1602 American Women's History (H)
- + HIST E-1607/W The American Revolution
- + HIST E-1632/W The History of Boston
- HIST E-1633 Boston's Topographical History
- + HIST E-1825 China: Traditions and Transformations (H)
- HIST E-1834 Chinese Emigration in Modern Times (H)
- HIST E-1880 The Rise of Islam (H)
- HIST E-1886 The Middle East: Rapprochement and Coexistence
Natural History Museums
- BIOL E-100 Comparative Functional Anatomy of the Vertebrates (H)
- BIOL E-104 Plants and Human Affairs (H)
- BIOL E-105 History of Agriculture and the Environment (H)
- BIOL E-130 Fish Biology: Models in Design, Evolution, and Conservation (H)
- BIOL E-146 Woody Plants and New England Forests (H)
- + ENVR E-110 Ocean Environments (H)
- ENVR E-142/W Rainforest Conservation Ecology (H)
- GEOL E-112c Physical Geology of New England (H)
- GEOL E-180 Workshop on Regional Geology
Museum Administration
- CSS E-100 Strategic Management
- CSS E-105 Marketing Management
- CSS E-105a Marketing of Services
- + CSS E-105e Internet Marketing Strategies
- CSS E-105f Customer Relationship Management and the Market-Driven Organization
- CSS E-121 Managing the Nonprofit Organization
- CSS E-124 Managing Organizational Change (H)
- CSS E-142 Principles and Practices of Fundraising (H)
- CSS E-200 Human Resource Management (H)
- CSS E-205 Organizational Behavior (H: McManus and White only)
- CSS E-302 Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance for Governmental and Nonprofit Organizations (H)
- CSS E-315 Managerial Finance
- CSS E-520 Development Communications in the Internet Age (H)
- CSS E-523 Grant Proposal Writing (H)
- CSS E-535 Writing for Public Relations and Marketing
Technical/Practical
- CSCI E-11 Digital Multimedia Art
- + CSCI E-12 Fundamentals of Website Development (H)
- + CSCI E-14 Understanding and Developing Multimedia
- CSCI E-19 Video Field Production
- CSCI E-21 Introduction to 3-D Design, Animation, and SFX
- CSCI E-21b Advanced Topics in Visual Effects
- CSCI E-40 Geographic Information Science and Web Mapping (H)
- CREA E-130 Desktop Publishing (H)
- EDUC E-126 Teaching for Understanding with New Technologies
- STAR E-185/W Nonfiction Film (H)
- CSS E-400 Internet and Integrated Productivity Software (H)
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