Fridays 4 PM- 5 PM
University Art Museum, North Campus Center

Instructor: Marina Freeman
Office: 562-985-7604
e-mail:  museum-studies@csulb.edu 
website: www.csulb.edu/museum-studies
Office hours: Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays 12 Noon-1PM
 

Course Description: This is not a lecture-based course, but rather a project-driven class. I will meet with you individually to decide what you will do.  If you are working on a master's degree, studio project, or other research project, you might want to add a museum component.  Otherwise, I will assign you to a current museum project/and or staff member for the duration of the semester.  At the end of the course, there must be a tangible result of your work. We will meet once a week for questions and progress reports.
 

Requirements:

1. Write a two-page paper (typed, double spaced) about your goals in this class.  Why are you taking it?  What kind of job in a museum do you want? If you have no idea about these things, put your questions down instead.
2. After deciding what your project will be, write a two-page paper stating your project, its methodology, and the tangible outcome, i.e research on an artist, bibliography for exhibition, etc)
3. Write a two-page self-evaluation about what you have learned in this class, and where, or if, you see yourself in a museum.
4. Project
 

Class Schedule:

January 27  Introduction to the course
Review assignments

February 4  Goals paper due

February 11  Weekly meeting

February 18  Project proposal due

February 25  Weekly meeting

March 3  Weekly meeting 

March 10  Weekly meeting

March 17  Weekly meeting

March 24  Weekly meeting

March 31  Weekly meeting

April 7  No class 

April 14  Weekly meeting

April 21  Spring break

April 28  Weekly meeting

May 5   Weekly meeting

May 12  Self-evaluation due
   Potluck
May 19  Final Project due