Teaching with Objects Resources and References

By |October 19th, 2016|Museum Staff, The College of Wooster|

Description: This document contains over twenty articles, essays, and web links with information about various approaches and methodologies used in [...]

Student Survey for Student Curated Exhibition

By |July 14th, 2016|Museum Staff, The College of Wooster|

Description: This brief student survey includes student learning goals and yes/no and open ended questions about a course-embedded, student curated [...]

Student Examples of Ways to Extract Meaning from Art

By |March 21st, 2017|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, Economics, English, Europe, Full Semester, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, History, Individual Assignment, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Urban Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper|

Description: Compiled from thirteen junior studio art majors, this list is the result of an assignment that asked the students [...]

Response-Centered Peer Review for Extended Object Labels

By |March 21st, 2017|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, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Economics, English, Europe, Full Semester, Geology, Group Assignment, Half Semester, History, Label Writing/Editing, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Senior Seminar, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Urban Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Response Centered Peer ReviewDescription: Adapted from "Engaged Ideas," by John C. Bean, this assignment pairs students in a response-centered editing [...]

Questions for Unidentified Objects

By |March 21st, 2017|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, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Economics, English, Europe, First Year Seminar, Full Semester, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, Half Semester, History, Individual Assignment, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, One Class Session, Other, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Senior Seminar, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Two or More Class Sessions, Urban Studies, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: We often encounter objects about which there is no information. This list of questions can be utilized with students [...]

Observation Prompts for the Gallery/Museum Tour

By |July 14th, 2016|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, Economics, English, Europe, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Geology, Group Assignment, History, Individual Assignment, Middle East, Mixed-media, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, New media, North America, Object Study, One Class Session, Painting, Photography, Physics, Political Science, Public Art/Monument, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, South America, Southeast Asia, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Urban Studies, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: This assignment breaks down the steps to close looking, from arrival at the gallery or museum to how to [...]

Object Label Editing Rubric and Object Label Writing Examples

By |July 14th, 2016|Museum Staff, The College of Wooster|

Description: This editing rubric is used when students are doing peer edits of student curated exhibitions. Student written object labels [...]

Integrated Assessment Plan for Academic Art Museum

By |October 18th, 2016|Museum Staff, The College of Wooster|

Description: This integrated assessment plan for an academic art museum provides a snapshot of how the academic art museum supports [...]

Extended Object Labels Assignment

By |August 12th, 2016|Africa, African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Archaeological, Art & Art History, CE, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Faculty, Full Semester, History, Individual Assignment, Label Writing/Editing, Mixed-media, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Object Study, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Sociology, Textiles, The College of Wooster, Writing Intensive|

Description: Prepare an Extended Object Label for each of the objects you are addressing in our exhibition. You have been [...]

Critical Thinking and Writing Rubric for Research Papers

By |March 21st, 2017|Museum Staff, The College of Wooster|

Description: This Likert-type rubric focuses on the assessment of art history and other object-based research papers. It includes assessment questions [...]

Critical Thinking and Writing Rubric for Extended Object Labels

By |March 21st, 2017|Museum Staff, The College of Wooster|

Description: This Likert-type rubric can be used to both assist and assess the writing of extended objects labels. Topics covered [...]