The following is a small sample list of courses that some of our students have used in the past as electives towards their museum studies certificate. This list give an idea of the range of disciplines that offer courses that may be used as electives. Below these sample courses are two lists. One includes the classes that have been approved for elective credit for the upcoming semester (Winter 2025). The other is a historical list of all classes that have been approved in the past. Any of the courses on these lists may be used to fulfill the MSP elective requirement.
Other courses may also be used to fulfill the MSP elective requirement. If there is a course that a student feels may be an appropriate elective but is not listed, students are advised to present the course for consideration to the MSP Director by completing the second half of the “Guidelines and Application for MSP Electives” form available to current students on the Museum Studies Dropbox site.
| Course | Name |
|---|---|
| AMCULT 433 | Made in Detroit: A History of Art and Culture in the Motor City |
| AMCULT 601 | Studies in American Art: Realism and Realities in American Art and Literature |
| ANTHRARC 497 | Museum Anthropology |
| ANTHRCUL 545 | Image-Based Ethnography |
| ANTHRCUL 558 | Current Issues in Sociocultural Anthropology: Material Culture & Materiality |
| ARCH 603 | The Curated University: Exhibiting UM’s Neotechnical Past |
| CLARCH 534 | Ancient Painting |
| EDUC 717 | Interdisciplinary Problem Solving – Law, Development, and Heritage Preservation in India |
| GERMAN 731 | Museums and Memory |
| HISTART 406 | Looking at African Things – Exhibiting Africa: Museum Representation of the Continent and Its People |
| HISTART 689 | Knowledge and Visuality in Early Modern Europe |
| HISTORY 473 | Brazil: History and Culture |
| HISTORY 637 | Archives and Institutions of Social Memory |
| LAW 470 | Intellectual Property Practice |
| MUSEUMS 401 | Ethics in Museums |
| MUSEUMS 498 | Cultures of Collecting: Museums and Literature |
| MUSMETH 406 | Special Problems in Museum Methods |
| NEAREAST 438 | Exhibiting Ancient Egypt: Past Culture in the Modern Museum |
| SI 519 | Intellectual Property and Information Law |
| SI 580 | Understanding Records and Archives |
| SI 629 | Access Systems for Archives |
| SLAVIC 470 | Soviet Visual Culture |
Graduate Electives – Winter 2025
Graduate Electives – All courses approved thru Fall 2024
