Course Listing
Heritage and Museum Studies
The requirements for a major in heritage and museum studies are 36 credits.
Required Courses
- HMS 301 - Theories and Methods of Heritage and Museum
- HMS 305 - Collections Care and Management
- HART 155 - History in Art I: Origins to the Early Renaissance
- ART 420 - Senior Project or Senior Thesis
- HIST 325 - Doing Digital History
- HMS 395 - Heritage and Museum Studies Internship
- HMS 399 - Internship Workshop
Additional Requirements
One additional class (4 credits) from each of the following three categories:
Art History
History
- HIST 301 - Greece and the Ancient Near East
- HIST 302 - Rome: Republic and Empire
- HIST 311 - Religion and American Reform
- HIST 313 - Black American History
- HIST 315 - Indigenous Peoples of North America
- HIST 316 - U.S. Women's History
- HIST 317 - Scandinavian Immigration and Settlement in America
- HIST 318 - The Midwest: Local, State, and Regional Histories
- HIST 319 - Colonial America
- HIST 320 - Latin American History
- HIST 331 - Imperial Russia
- HIST 332 - Russia since 1917
- HIST 337 - Reel Norden: Scandinavian History and Film
- HIST 338 - Hitler's Germany
- HIST 339 - Renaissance and Reformation History
- HIST 341 - Foundations of East Asian Civilization
- HIST 342 - Modern East Asian History
- HIST 343 - History of the Japanese Islands
- HIST 344 - Women and Development: The Asian Experience
- HIST 352 - The Rise of Modern Africa
- HIST 360 - Food in Global History
- HIST 365 - Global Issues
- HIST 370 - Islam and the West: Historical Encounters
- HIST 380 - Special Topics
Interdisciplinary electives:
- BIOL 360, ENVR 360 - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
- COM 316 - Intercultural Communication
- COM 414 - Organizational Communication
- ENG 316 - Business Writing
- ENG 324 - Technical Writing
- GRS 120 - Classical Mythology in Art and Literature
- THR 328 - Arts Management
- HMS 380 - Special Topics
- HMS 487 - Directed Research