HIST 422 - Museum Exhibit Development

Units: 4; Breadth Area: GE-UD-4 ; Diversity
Hands-on museum exhibit development. Students practice the skills of the curator in acquisition, recording, and exhibit design, the conservator in preservation, and the preparator in display of anthropological, historical, and natural science materials. Several external museum visits are required.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: GE-UD-4 - Upper Division Social and Behavioral Sciences, Overlay - Diversity
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Areas 1A, 1B, 1C and GE Area 2 with grade C- (CR) or better.
Strongly Recommended Preparation: Upper division status (greater than 60 earned semester units) and completion of lower division Area D1-3 requirements.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground or Hybrid.
Grading: A-F or CR/NC (student choice).
Cross-listed: ANTH 422
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, or Summer

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Conceptualize, design, construct, and complete a museum exhibition in anthropology, history, or natural science.
Carry out anthropological and historical research using one or more anthropological, historical or natural science methodologies.
Write object and image label copy in museum style.
Understand the methodological and theoretical differences between conventional and decolonized museum exhibitions.
Work respectfully with consultants of various cultural backgrounds.

GE-UD-4. Upper-division Social and Behavioral Sciences Learning Outcomes

Analyze how power and social identity affect social outcomes for different cultural and economic groups using methods of social science inquiry and vocabulary appropriate to those methods.
Demonstrate an understanding of and ability to apply accurately disciplinary concepts of the social or behavioral sciences.
Demonstrate an understanding of and the ability to effectively plan or conduct research using an appropriate method of the social or behavioral sciences.

Diversity Overlay Learning Outcomes

Describe the histories and/or experiences of one or more U.S. cultural groups, and the resilience and agency of group members.
Identify structures of oppression and the diverse efforts and strategies used by U.S. cultural groups to combat the effects of oppressive structures.
Analyze the intersection of categories of race and gender as they affect U.S. cultural group members lived realities and/or as they are embodied in personal and collective identities.
Recognize the way that multiple differences (including, e.g., gender, class, sexuality, religion, disability, immigration status, gender expression, color/phenotype, racial mixture, linguistic expression, and/or age) within U.S. cul