Minor in Museums, Memory, and Heritage
The Museums, Memory, and Heritage Minor is designed for students who wish to study museums, the institutionalization of memory, monuments, and cultural heritage both from an academic point of view and as a potential career path. Supervision of the minor will rotate among faculty.
Beginning September 2024 all course numbers begin with HAA (formerly FAH)
Program Requirements and Policies
- This minor requires total of five courses of three credits each.
- All courses used in fulfillment of a minor must be taken for a letter grade (not pass/fail).
- No more than two courses used for any minor, regardless of the number of semester hours they carry, may be used toward a foundation or distribution requirement, or toward a major or another minor.
Course Requirements
For the minor requirements to be met, you must take the following courses:
- Two of the following core courses
- HAA 160: Museum History & Theory
- HAA 164: Who Owns the Past?
- VMS 122: Reassessing Museums
- One course in history of art and architecture on a museum or heritage-related subject
- Two electives in a related field (e.g. history, anthropology, visual and material studies)
