This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the third of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by second-year Museology student Marcela Velandia. Inspiration and passion have been a central part of my life since…
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Course highlight: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder (part II)
This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the second of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by Mirka Jablonski, M.Ed. Kim is Museology Guest Faculty and is also a partner at Upper Left Projects….
Course highlight: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder (part I)
This Autumn Quarter 2024 Course Highlight is the first of three exploring Kim Aziz and Mirka Jablonski’s new course: Facilitation in the Museum: Creating a place for curiosity and wonder. This course explores how museum practitioners can actively and intentionally cultivate an experience that evokes awe and wonder within the museum space using visual thinking and other strategies. This highlight is written by Kim Aziz, M.Ed. Kim is Museology Guest Faculty and is also the co-founder of Upper Left Projects….
Course Highlight: Museums, Health, and Wellbeing Seminar
For this Winter Quarter 2023 Course Highlight, we were excited to speak with students participating in Jessica Luke‘s new seminar: Museums, Health, and Wellbeing. This seminar explores the role that museums can play in public health, in particular in fostering positive social and emotional well-being. This course is structured as a 5-part seminar, addressing wellbeing theory, practice, research, measures, and contexts. We sat down mid-way through the quarter with Cristal Seda Santiago, Hannah Sutton, and Sarah Smith to discuss their…
Course highlight: Introduction to Museology
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Student experience in the Specialization in Museum Evaluation
Since the start of this specialization in 2010, 114 students have completed the Specialization in Evaluation and completed 36 projects. Previous evaluation studies have explored topics such as: family learning, visitor expectations/satisfaction, visitor behavior and experiences, museum resource utilization, and school group engagement. This year’s 2021 cohort has a record high number of students completing the specialization, with 18 students carrying out 5 projects with museums in the Seattle area. To provide some insight into the experiences of our students…
Faculty/Course Spotlight – Geneva Griswold
This blog is part of the Museology Faculty/Course spotlight series, which consists of short interviews with our new faculty to discuss and reflect on inclusive teaching, their learning outcomes, some of their course highlights, and what they learned from their teaching experience. Our next spotlight is with Geneva Griswold, who is a guest lecturer with the program and taught the Sustainability in Museology course. Her responses are below: Where did you draw inspiration or what was your impetus for creating…
Angie Ong Faculty Spotlight
This is the first spotlight of the Museology Faculty spotlight series, which consists of short interviews with our faculty to discuss and reflect on inclusive teaching, their learning outcomes, some of their course highlights, and what they’ve learned adjusting to teaching online through the pandemic. Our first spotlight is with Angie Ong, who teaches the evaluation specialization, museum and technology course, and is one of our four thesis advisors. Her responses are below:
Making Meaning: New Models of Museum Interpretation (Course Highlight)
We at the UW Museology Graduate Program are pleased to include a wide array classes, covering every area of museum practice, in our curriculum. For the last two years, we have been delighted for the chance to offer a course on museum interpretation. What follows is one student’s reflection on how this course has helped her grow as a professional and elevate her thesis project. This winter quarter, I took Making Meaning: New Models of Museum Interpretation, a course taught…
Training Students for the Future of Museums – Community Engagement (Course Highlight)
In Fall Quarter 2019, the University of Washington Museology Graduate Program was pleased to offer our Community Engagement course for the second time, taught by Dr. Meena Selvakumar. Meena has a long history with community engagement. “The very first project that I led and for which I received a federal grant was to develop a community engagement model for our local science museum,” Meena said. “While I have gained expertise in other areas of museum work, community engagement is one…