History and Theory of Museums.

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Semester course; 3 seminar hours. 3 credits. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students and students in the accelerated opportunity. The course explores the history of museums from the late eighteenth century to the present, employing a historiographical and theoretical approach informed by recent perspectives in postcolonial and decolonial theory. Through a series of thematic sessions, students will critically examine how museums have collected, exhibited and conceptualized art within the contexts of colonialism, imperialism, decolonization and dynamics of inclusion and exclusion.