Program Overview

Overview

The Professional Certificate in Museology is designed to provide professional museum training for CU Boulder graduate students and museum professionals. The program serves a range of disciplines in the arts and sciences, education, and engineering, as well as the Colorado museum community.

Requirements

The Professional Certificate in Museology requires a minimum of 12 credit hours and a 75-hour internship that may be waived if comparable professional experience is demonstrated.

Course List

The following courses are required for the Professional Certificate in Museology:

• MUSM 5011: Introduction to Museum Studies (4 credit hours)
• Electives: Select three of the following five courses:
  • MUSM 5030: Museum Education
  • MUSM 5031: Museums and the Public: Exhibit Development
  • MUSM 5041: Museum Administration
  • MUSM 5051: Museum Collections Management
  • MUSM 6110: Advanced Seminar in Museum Issues
• Total Credit Hours: 12

CU Graduate Students

The Museum and Field Studies program offers a Graduate Professional Certificate in Museology for graduate students. This program provides professional training and certification for students at the University of Colorado Boulder whose primary enrollment is in a graduate program in another museum-related discipline.

Museum Professionals

The professional certificate program is also open to museum professionals in Colorado and the surrounding Rocky Mountain region. The program provides an avenue for early and mid-career museum staff to upgrade their skills and credentials in order to better meet the challenges and opportunities that museum work affords in the 21st century. For museum professionals, additional disciplinary work is available as appropriate upper division undergraduate or graduate coursework taken as electives under the nondegree study plan available in the ACCESS program through Continuing Education.