Museum Studies Minor
Degree Requirements
If a minor is required in your degree program, at least 9 (lower and/or upper-division) hours of courses in the minor must be completed at the University.
Core Requirements
- Twenty-one (21) credit hours in approved courses; nine (9) hours must be taken at the University of South Alabama.
- At least one (1) course must be taken in each of the three primary disciplines of anthropology, art history and history.
- MUM 201: Introduction to Museum Studies
- At least three (3) and no more than six (6) credit hours from AN 496: Anthropology Internship, ARH 360: Traineeship in Museum Work, or HY 498: Internship in History.
- Two (2) of the following courses: AN 435 Museum Methods in Archaeology, AN 442: Cultural Resources Management, ARH 493: Methodology of Art History, HY 496: Introduction to Public History.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Required | ||
| MUM 201 | Intro to Museum Studies | 3 |
| Choose at least 3 hours from one of the following: | 3-6 | |
| Anthropology Internship | ||
| Traineeship in Museum Work | ||
| Internship in History | ||
| Choose two of the following: | 6 | |
| Museum Methods in Archaeology | ||
| Cultural Resource Management | ||
| Methodology of Art History-W | ||
| Public History | ||
| Choose from the following courses to reach 21 hours for the minor. | ||
| Anthropology | ||
AN 313 | ||
| Field Work in Archaeology | ||
| Native American Cultures-W | ||
| Latin Amer Cultures-Societies | ||
| Adv Archaeological Field Meth | ||
| Cultural Resource Management | ||
| Art History | ||
| Ancient Grk Art and Architect | ||
| Roman Art | ||
| Italian Early Renaissance | ||
| 16th Century Italian Art | ||
| Baroque Art and Architecture | ||
| 18th Century Art and Arch | ||
| Early Modern Art | ||
| Contemporary Art | ||
| American Arts 1600 - 1940 | ||
| Native American Art | ||
| Women in Art-W | ||
| English | ||
| Grant Proposal Writing | ||
| History | ||
| Latin America | ||
| America in the 1960s | ||
| Colonial America | ||
| The American Revolution | ||
| Civil War and Reconstruction | ||
| Modern US I 1877-1945 | ||
| Modern US II Since 1945 - W | ||
| The Old South | ||
| The New South | ||
Other periods and topics in all disciplines must be approved by the Museum Studies Committee and Director.