ANT (0103) 360 - The MET: A Global Museum

Credits: 3.00

Students will use the Metropolitan Museum of Art with its galleries and multiple departments as a classroom, gaining exposure to the multiple facets of the workings of a global museum. We explore critical issues facing the field and use opportunities for discussions with the museum professionals.

Repeatable: No Grade Type: Regular
Free Note: Strongly recommended (but not required) courses include: ANT 111 Cultural Anthropology, ANT 113 Archaeology, ARH 196 Art and the World I, ARH 197 Art and the World II, and any course in the Certificate for Museum Studies program.

Aside from the first meeting that takes place on campus, the class meets every week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (once at the MET Cloisters, and once at the Fordham University Museum, Rose Hill Campus, Bronx). It is the students’ responsibility to pay for travel to the museum. Note: students will not be responsible for the entrance fee to the Museum.

Course Learning Goals:

Students will examine the everyday workings of a global museum.
Students will further develop their visual literacy and critical approach to the visual art in relation to the exhibition spaces and the complex relations between the objects within those spaces.
Students will learn how to examine objects first-hand (essentially, how and where to LOOK, what questions to ask).
Students will contextualize art works within their cultural, political, religious, and historical backgrounds.
Students will analyze, apply, and synthesize different research methods relating to art objects.