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About the Program
We prepare edu-curators to advance museum theory and practice, a hybrid of education and curation functions, to promote innovative and socially-engaged leaders and scholars. Professional practices include taking visitor-centered roles in museums and participating in thoughtful scholarship. Informed by an adapted feminist systems approach, the specialized program in Museum Education & Visitor-Centered Curation (EC) prepares MA and Ph.D. students to be edu-curators who envision exhibitions and interpretative planning as non-hierarchical, collaborative processes. Our students learn how to include underrepresented voices in exhibition and interpretation development and seek social justice through museum practice, evaluation, and organizational change. Graduate students will leave with the ability to facilitate and conduct visitor-centered research as well as to plan and evaluate collaborative and reflective museum practices. Coursework includes Visitor Studies, Museum Education, Art Museum Education, Visitor-Centered Exhibitions, Leading the Arts Organization, and a semester internship at the Ringling Museum in Sarasota.
