2023-2024 Catalog 
    
    Oct 07, 2024  
2023-2024 Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Museum Practice and Heritage Management, BI™


This degree offers students relevant training for careers in all types of museums: natural history museums, historic house museums, living history museums, museums of industry, and museums of archaeology and anthropology. Students with this degree will be well prepared and trained to pursue careers in federal or state agencies that manage cultural properties, museums, and archaeology or architectural resources, the private sector of public archaeology, and anthropology museum management.

General Information:

The Bachelor of Innovation (BI) in Museum Practice and Heritage Management requires the following:

  • A minimum of 36 credit hours of ANTH and MSGP course work. At least 21 of those hours must be upper-division (courses numbered 3000 or higher). 
  • A grade of C or better in courses applied to the major.
  • A minimum 2.0 GPA must be maintained in all ANTH and MSGP course work.
  • No more than 60 credit hours of ANTH and MSGP course work combined may apply to the bachelor’s degree.

Additional course work is required to complete the Museum Practice and Heritage Management, BI. Please see the advising guide on the Academic Advising website for more information.

Course Requirements


Methods Core Course (3 credits)


Complete one of the following courses:

Capstone Internship (3 credits)


All Students will take an internship and complete an internship portfolio and final paper as the Capstone requirement for the degree. These will occur on an approved job site with faculty oversight and guidance using a contract outlining student learning objectives.

Complete one of the following courses:

BI Cross-Discipline Core (15 credit hours)


Complete one of the Cross-Discipline Cores listed below. Each Cross-Discipline Core consists of 15 credit hours. Open the expandable lists to see course options.

For more information on the Bachelor of Innovation degree, see the program page: Bachelor of Innovation™ (BI) Degree