RA-2980: MUSEUM LITERACY This course explores the unique relationship between object, visitor and museum, and how each agent contributes to the interpretive museum experience. Classes offer a behind the scenes look at museum activity while considering the broader role of museums in society. Site visits, case studies and contemporary readings from the field of museum studies provide a framework for understanding and critically analyzing the museum as both object and context for display. Utilizing current models for "reading" images and objects, students will explore the intersection of verbal, visual, and museum "literacies," building a transferable skill set for museums of all disciplines. While considering the position of museums within the larger framework of "art" and "culture," students will observe a contemporary portrait of museum work, supported by an evolutionary scaffolding of careers in the field.