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Class number:
3511
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Title: Museums, Publics, and Protests |
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Department: First Year Sem & Colloq |
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Career: Undergraduate |
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Component: Seminar |
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Session: Regular |
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Instructor's Permission Required: Yes |
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Grading Basis: Regular |
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Units: 1.00 |
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Current enrollment: 15 |
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Available seats: 0 |
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Start date: Tuesday, September 6, 2022 |
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End date: Wednesday, December 21, 2022 |
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Mode of Instruction: In Person |
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Schedule: MW: 2:55PM-4:10PM, MC - 305 |
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Instructor(s): Guzman, Amanda |
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Prerequisite(s): Only first-year students are eligible to enroll in this class. |
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Distribution Requirement: Meets FirstYr Seminar Requirement |
Course Description:
What is the role of the museum in the 21st century? This course will survey the range of contemporary relationships - both those grounded in popular imagination and lived reality - that have developed and remain continually emergent between museums and their diverse publics. Through film case-studies, students will explore - with class discussions and written reflection responses - representations of museum institutions as sites shaped by dynamics of intrigue, fantasy, and identity-making. Through hands-on work with object and archival collections in local cultural institutions and beyond, students will develop analytical frameworks for observing and understanding the ways in which materials are taken up by and against the museum in dynamic practices of institutional transformation and protest. |