Graduate Cognates
The following is a list of courses offered during the last three years at U-M that might serve as cognates for the Certificate in Museums Studies. Some of these are offered yearly, others irregularly. Students are advised to consult the UM schedule of courses to ascertain when courses are offered.
This is a partial list. If there is a course that does not appear on the list that may be an appropriate cognate, students are advised to present the course for consideration to the Director of the MSP by completing the second half of the Cognate Enrollment Form available on the Museum Studies CTools site.
Examples of Cognate Courses
| ANTHCUL 458 | Political Violence and Historical Memory | |
| ANTHCUL 496/497 | Museum Techniques in Anthropology | |
| ANTHCUL 675 | Topics in Cultural Linguistics: Representing Language: Media and Documentation | |
| AAPTIS 592 | Constructions of Collective Memory and Identity: Readings in Theory and Practice | |
| ARCH 509 | Theorizing Place | |
| ARCH 545 | Advanced Lighting Design | |
| BA 519 | Managing the Nonprofit Organization | |
| LHC 509 | Law of Intellectual Property | |
| COMM 478 | Visual Communication | |
| EDUC 642 | Philosophy and Politics of Education | |
| ENGLISH 549 | Graphic Narrative | |
| ENG 477 | Principles of Visual Reality | |
| GERMAN 499 | Seminar in German Studies: The Aesthetics of the Visual | |
| HISTORY 600 | Archives and Records | |
| HISTART 406 | Exhibiting Africa: Representation of the Continent and Its People | |
| HISTART 407 | Introduction to Museum Practice | |
| LAW 846 | Nonprofit Law and Policy | |
| MUSMETH 406 | Museum Methods | |
| NRE 581 | Advanced Environmental Education | |
| NRE 589 | Ecological Restoration | |
| PUBPOL 587 | Public Management | |
| PUBPOL 672 | Managing Non-Profit Organizations | |
| SI 504* | Social Systems and Collections | |
| SI 515 | Material Culture and the Interpretation of Objects | |
| SI 581 | Preserving Information | |
| SI 620 | Collection Development and Management | |
| SI 621 | Ethics, Values, and Information Dilemmas | |
| SI 629 | Access Systems for Archives | |
| SI 637 | Seminar on Archives and Institutions of Social Memory | |
| SW 654 | Concepts and Techniques of Citizen Participation | |
| SW 661 | Budgeting and Financial Management |
*course not applicable for SI students