Winter Term: Introduction to Museum Studies
Description: This course is intended to provide students with an overview of gallery/museum careers, an introduction to best practices as [...]
Roberts: “The Power of Patience” (2013)
Description: Professor Jennifer L. Roberts at Harvard University makes a compelling case for object-based learning by "...teaching students the value [...]
Readings Course: Provenance: How A Con Man and a Forger Rewrote the History of Modern Art
Description: Provenance is the true story about one of the greatest art scandals of the 20th century. The novel raises [...]
Music in the Galleries: Percussion @ Peeler
Description: The attached document briefly describes a successful partnership between the DePauw University Peeler Art Center and the DePauw School [...]
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Permalink GalleryMuseum Exhibition Workshop
Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Art & Art History, CE, Ceramics, DePauw University, History, Mixed-media, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Painting, Photography, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, Textiles, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Works on paper
Museum Exhibition Workshop
Description: This workshop will introduce students to many of the fundamental concepts behind the creation of a successful museum exhibition. [...]
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Permalink GalleryMuseum Cart for Russian Studies
Anthropology/Archaeology, Art & Art History, Asia, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, DePauw University, Europe, Full Semester, Group Assignment, History, Individual Assignment, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Object Study, One Class Session, Other, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, Two or More Class Sessions
Museum Cart for Russian Studies
Description: Oct 10, 2012 - Students examine and discuss ethnic objects from Eastern Europe as part of Professor Masha Belyavski-Frank's [...]
Intro to Religious Studies: Museums as Sacred Sites
Description: This one-hour classroom exercise was used in an introductory religious studies course. Students viewed a contemporary painting exhibition as [...]
German Diction Exercise
Description: This assignment was created for the course, "German Diction for Singers." Students were asked to study works of art [...]
French Diction Exercise
Description: This assignment was created for the course, “French Diction for Singers.” Students were asked to study works of art [...]
Dissecting Works of Art
Description: This short assignment can be used in any exhibition in order to make students feel more comfortable discussing works [...]
Deupi and Eckman, Prospects and Strategies for Deep Collaboration in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums Sector (2016)
Description: Abstract: This paper reports on the findings of a working summit hosted by the University of Miami in January [...]
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Permalink GalleryCritiquing Museum Exhibitions
Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, Australia, BCE, Biology, Books/Manuscripts, CE, Ceramics, Chemistry, Classical Studies, Communication, Computer Science, DePauw University, Economics, English, Europe, Exhibition Critique, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, History, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, Urban Studies, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper
Critiquing Museum Exhibitions
Description: This assignment has been used to break students into groups as follows: Working in groups of three, choose one [...]
AAC&U VALUE Rubrics
Description: Many of the rubrics developed by the Association of American Colleges & Universities can be adapted for object-based teaching [...]