In Introduction to Museum Studies, learn all about how museums work, how to preserve artifacts, how to design exhibits, and more! This course explores the basic tenets of Public History and gives students hands-on experience working in a museum setting. It’s a perfect class for students who love hands-on learning or think they don’t enjoy history! This is a light reading course, but our three books will help us understand the role of history and memory through a Christian perspective. There will be small assignments such as open note quizzes, free-response questions, and discussion boards each week which cover that class period’s lecture. The final project involves a group project: designing an online museum exhibit which friends and family can “visit” after the semester! Students will be assessed based on their contribution to the final project, so while they are working with a group their grade is dependent on their own participation, rather than the group’s overall project. This class is perfect for mature 8th graders through 12th grade.

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