PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Museums and Cultural Studies
Claudia Lorraine Rumson
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Museums: they’re some of the most popular tourist attractions in any given city, they house priceless treasures, they provide some of the only jobs that students in history can imagine getting with their degrees. Why is it like this? How did museums become a standard feature of our landscape? Why do they look the way they do?
This course explores the cultural histories and traditions of the museum, the colonial and psychic roots of British museum culture, and teaches students how to analyse not just the things inside museums, but the way in which those things are curated, displayed, and described. We will practice critical examination of museum exhibits and understand those exhibits as products of cultural trends and preoccupations.
Using museums as a tool, we will practice critical reading and analysis, argumentation, and academic writing skills. Full credit can be obtained on the basis of participation in class discussions, informal writing assignments, mini-presentations, and the eventual submission of a research paper of approximately 2000 words.
Schließen14 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung