[bioundgrd] Fwd: STS.454 Science and Technology in the Museum Environment

[Janice Chang]

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From: Karen L Gardner <kgardner at mit.edu<mailto:kgardner at mit.edu>>
Subject: Please distribute: STS.454 Science and Technology in the Museum Environment
Date: August 22, 2018 at 9:28:48 AM EDT

STS is offering a grad-level class in Fall 2018 that might be of interest to those of your students whose work is relevant to science communication, preservation, and museums. It is taught by the Director of the MIT Museum, John Durant. This will be a particularly interesting time to take this class as plans for the new MIT Museum in Kendall Square are developing swiftly (http://news.mit.edu/2017/john-durant-plans-new-era-for-the-mit-museum-0927). Students in the class will have an opportunity to work on a project related to the new MIT Museum.

Please pass this along to your students to let them know!

STS.454 Science and Technology in the Museum Environment
Mondays 1-4 in 4-251 (firs class, Mon., Sept. 10)
Units: 3-0-9
No prerequisites
Examines the ways museums preserve the material culture of science and technology and present it distinctively to a mass audience. Focuses on challenges and opportunities of preserving and presenting science and technology in the museum environment. Students review recent work in museum studies as it relates specifically to science, medicine, and technology; review a major gallery or exhibition locally; and have an opportunity to participate in a collections- or communications-related research project in the MIT Museum.
Instructor: John Durant, Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology, & Society Program, MIT Museum Director

Pre-register at: http://student.mit.edu/catalog/search.cgi?search=sts.454&style=verbatim

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