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Major: Museum Studies

Major details:

Museum Studies

MSD01

Department:
Department of Environment and Geography
Faculty:
Faculty of Science

This major must be completed as part of an award. The general requirements for the award must be satisfied in order to graduate.

Requirements for the Major:

Completion of a minimum of 24 credit points including the following prescribed units:

Credit points

100 level

Required
3
Environmental Management for a Changing World (3)
 
Required
3cp from
 
Geographies of Global Change (3)
 
 
Antiquity's Heirs: Barbarian Europe, Byzantium, and Islam (3)
 
 
Evolution and Biodiversity (3)
 
 
Geographies of Global Change (3)
 
 
The Planet Earth (3)
 
 
The Making of Australia (3)
 
 
Australia and Global Societies: An Introduction to Sociology (3)
 
3
Science in the Public Sphere (3)
 

200 level

Required
3
Information Management and Museums Practice (3)
 
Required
3cp from
 
The Ecological Humanities: Australians and their Environment (3)
 
 
The Politics of Indigenous Being (3)
 
 
Archaeology and Society: Archaeological Evidence (3)
 
 
Palaeontology (3)
 
 
Palaeontology: The History of LIfe (3)
 
 
Geographies of Development (3)
 
 
The Ecological Humanities: Australians and their Environment (3)
 
 
Geographies of Development (3)
 
 
Travel, Tourism and Cultural Production (3)
 
 
Science, Media and Community (3)
 
3
Science, Society and Environment (3)
 

300 level

Required
3
Museum Field Studies (3)
C
Required
3
Museology of Natural History (3)
 
Required
6cp from
 
Archaeological Field Work (3)
 
 
Archaeological Field Work (3)
 
 
Invertebrate Palaeontology (3)
 
 
Applied Palaeontology and Biogenic Sediments (3)
 
 
Asia-Pacific Development (3)
 
 
Human Geography in Action (6)
 
 
Asia-Pacific Development (3)
 
 
Resource Management (3)
 
 
Human Geography in Action (6)
 
 
From the Beats to Big Brother: Popular Culture Since the 1950s (3)
 
 
Museums Special Interest Seminar (3)
 
 
Metropolitan Lifestyles: Sociology of the City (3)
 
 
Sociology of the Arts (3)
 
6
Science Communication in Practice (3)
 

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED TO SATISFY THIS MAJOR

24
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.