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Close Looking Activities from the AMAM

By |May 25th, 2017|African Studies, Anthropology/Archaeology, Art & Art History, Asia, Asian Studies, CE, Ceramics, Communication, Economics, English, Europe, First Year Seminar, Full Semester, Group Assignment, Half Semester, History, Individual Assignment, Middle East, Modern Languages, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, Music, Neuroscience, North America, Oberlin College, Object Study, One Class Session, Other, Painting, Photography, Political Science, Religious Studies, Sculpture, Senior Seminar, Sociology, Two or More Class Sessions, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: Sample group activities designed by Liliana Milkova, Curator of Academic Programs, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. These activities [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Music in the Galleries: Percussion @ Peeler

By |March 11th, 2017|Africa, Art & Art History, Asia, Australia, CE, Ceramics, DePauw University, Europe, Gallery Exercise/Tour, Middle East, Mixed-media, Museum Staff, Music, New media, North America, One Class Session, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, South America, Southeast Asia, Works on paper|

Description: The attached document briefly describes a successful partnership between the DePauw University Peeler Art Center and the DePauw School [...]

Visible Bodies and the Politics of Sexuality

By |February 27th, 2017|Africa, Art & Art History, CE, Faculty, Full Semester, Mixed-media, New media, Oberlin College, Other, Painting, Photography, Public Art/Monument, Sculpture, Textiles, Women & Gender Studies, Writing Intensive|

Description: This course examines the role of visual culture in producing varied and often-contested concepts of sexuality in American society. [...]

Curating an Exhibition

By |February 27th, 2017|Art & Art History, CE, Course-embedded Exhibition Assignment, Faculty, Full Semester, Mixed-media, New media, North America, Oberlin College, Other, Painting, Photography, Public Art/Monument, Sculpture, Textiles, Two or More Class Sessions, Women & Gender Studies, Works on paper, Writing Intensive|

Description: This is a semester-long class project in which students collectively curate a virtual exhibition using analytical concepts studied in [...]

Winter Term: Introduction to Museum Studies

By |February 14th, 2017|Africa, Archaeological, CE, Ceramics, DePauw University, Mixed-media, Museum Staff, Museum Studies / Curatorial Studies, New media, Painting, Photography, Public Art/Monument, Sculpture, Textiles, Winter Term/Summer Term Offering, Works on paper|

Description: This course is intended to provide students with an overview of gallery/museum careers, an introduction to best practices as [...]