Museums, Archives, and Material Culture

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course critically explores the ideas of the modern museum, archives, and material culture as significant avenues through which history, culture, and society are formed, disseminated, and perpetuated. The course is divided into three sections, which will consider the establishment of the survey museum through to contemporary digital museums, the difficulties and benefits of archival work for researchers, and the importance of material culture as an alternative and addition to text-based learning. CROSSLISTED: INDG 4210.03 FORMATS: Seminar