Material Culture and the Museum: Introduction to Collections-Based Research

Examination of relationship between people, objects, and ideas. Insight into way that human beings have historically and contemporaneously created and conceived of things and their use and importance in daily life and in performance of cultural identity. Consideration of questions including how past and present intersect, how people have made sense of world over time and space, and how objects, heritage, collectors, and museums converge, diverge, and intersect.

P/NP or letter grading.