Field Placements allow
students to arrange individual museum placements
to apply learning or undertake challenges that are not a direct part of
the AMS program. Each field placement is governed by a learning
agreement which articulates learning objectives/outcomes, skill sets to
be acquired and estimated timeline to accomplish each objective/outcome
There is currently one main placement in third
year, and a mini Collections Management placement, also in third year.
MUS1950 Field Placement II - 3rd year
students - 3
weeks in Nov/Dec of the fall semester
MUS1803 Field Placement III - 3rd year students - 3
weeks in January of the winter semester
The 2 third year placements may be hosted at the same institution (6
weeks total), and may be in any area of museum work.
MUS1936 Collections Management Project - 3rd year
students - 1 day/week for 12 weeks in Sept-Nov of the winter semester.
This "mini-placement" must be in the area of Collections Management.
For further information, please read the Collections Management 1-Day
Placement Guidelines dated May 2008 (Microsoft Word format,
65kb - to save this document, right-click on the link and "Save Target
As").
If you are interested in hosting one or more field placement students, please read Hosting a Field Placement (Microsoft Word format, 480kb), a guiding document for institutions interested in taking a field placement student, then use this Online Field Placement Request Form to initiate the field placement process.
The Special Project helps students to further develop their
museum
skills. Students participate in individual or group projects, in
conjunction with an approved institution, to research, plan and design
a project in their chosen area of interest.
The Special Project is a third year endeavour that spans the fall and
winter semesters. The project is developed in the fall semester and the
proposal is presented to a faculty committee for approval. Once
approved, the project gets underway.
In the winter semester, the project is completed, and a final report is
presented to
the faculty committee. The host institution supervisor agrees to attend
this
final presentation in April. The "final product" is
also submitted to the faculty committee for review and, once assessed,
is delivered to the host institution.
If you are interested in partnering with a student for a
Special
Project, please read the Special
Project FAQs (Frequently-Asked Questions - Microsoft Word
format, 81kb), then use this
Online Special Project Request
Form to initiate the Special Project process.
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