Courses Taught in the Museum 2015-16

Over the last academic year, the Museum welcomed 85 courses, 96 professors and preceptors from 60 departments, and over 4,000 students into the Museum’s galleries and study rooms. Classes not only from the Department of Art and Archaeology, but also from Psychology, History, Politics, Physics, and the Program in Environmental Studies—to name only a few—drew on the Museum’s encyclopedic collections of over 97,000 works of art. Some classes come to develops skills in visual analysis or to study works that offer insight into cultural context, while others learn about materials and technique or hone their language skills. Professors have reported that these visits increase students’ confidence in speaking about original objects, stimulate their ability to ask challenging questions, or enable a class to feel a historical context more tangibly. Lectures, group discussions, student presentations, and collaborative teaching with a museum curator are some of the pedagogic strategies used in the galleries. To offer a glimpse into the curricular vibrancy in our galleries, here is a list of the courses that visited the Museum during the 2015/16 academic year.

Princeton University Courses 2015-2016