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Museology Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Museology via distance learning
This program introduces museology and museum management, with special emphasis on the management of human and fiscal resources, collections, facilities, and information. It provides fundamental insights into museums; their social and cultural context; their history; the influence of information technology; their constantly changing role, contemporary exhibitions, and of museums as complex organizations.
Academic Supervisor : Patricia Aja Sánchez
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Museology Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Museology.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Ancient History - Anthropology - Archaeology - Comparative Literature - Cultural Studies - English Literature - Humanities - Language Studies - Library & Data Management - Mythology & Occultism - Philosophy & Critical Thinking - World History .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Museology Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Museology via distance learning = 36 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Museology Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Museology via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Library & Data Management.
Master's Degree - Museology Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Museology via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Library & Data Management. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Museology Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Museology via distance learning = 36 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: Library & Data Management. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Museology Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Civilization & Culture
This course studies how and why the first civilizations emerged and the preconditions necessary for state development: the domestication of plants/animals, the farming communities, the first cities, the religious ideologies, the evolution of language and its relationship to culture, and the progress of each civilization.
Academic Supervisor: Sara Hejazi
Art & Philosophy
This course deals with the natural, moral, and ethical ideas expressed in art. It provides an understanding of the ideological contexts within which modern and historical artists work, and the means by which art is interpreted. The course focuses in the ideas expressed through the visual, musical, and performing arts.
Academic Supervisor: Carmen Ramirez Hurtado
Art & Religion
This course investigates the religious meaning, development, and historical significance of art. It covers the interplay of major religious movements while focusing on the Western medieval period, the Islam, India, China, Japan, and South East Asia. It provides an analysis of religion as a universal aspect of human culture expressed through art, mostly painting, sculpture, and architecture.
Academic Supervisor: Robert Burton Bradley
Museum Exhibitions & Operations
This course explores designing hypothetical museums considering elements such as architectural plan, staffing plan, budgets, security system, records system, conservation, educational plan, visitor-based design factors, policy making, and community relations. It reviews critical issues in the planning, design, preparation, and installation of museum exhibits.
Academic Supervisor: Patricia Aja Sánchez
Archaeological Research
This course deals with the techniques, methods, and goals of archaeological research: Excavation and dating of archaeological materials, problems encountered in explaining archaeological phenomena, analysis of archaeological data by measuring and describing such artifacts as stone tools and ceramics, and the analysis of such environmental data as bones, plant remains, and sediments.
Academic Supervisor: Ana Isabel Navajas Jiménez
Comparative Historical Analysis
This courses presents a global review of the four Old World civilizations of the Middle East, India, China, and Europe, with special emphasis on their mutual influences and interaction across time. It touches on all aspects of civilization, including geography, communication, as well as technological and artistic developments.
Academic Supervisor: Mohammed Said Belkassem
Museum Specimen Documentation
This course addresses the issues encountered in the administrative work of museums. It reviews museum specimen documentation and research approaches, including technological and raw material analyses, classification, contextual studies, and esthetic studies.
Academic Supervisor: Patricia Aja Sánchez
Museum Legal & Ethical Issues
This course surveys the legal and ethical issues regarding international and national museum operations, including the control and movement of cultural property, artistic and intellectual rights and copyright, concepts of patrimony and issues of repatriation, as well as other relevant policies and regulations.
Academic Supervisor: Patricia Aja Sánchez
Museum Management & Museology
This course starts discussing real-life situations encountered in museum management to draw upon a wider management theory as deemed appropriate. Topics include creative management in museums, visionary leadership, the challenge of managing volunteers in museums, and the consequences of ineffective museum management.
Academic Supervisor: Patricia Aja Sánchez
Museum Collection Management
This course discusses the theory and practice of collection management in museums. It covers topics such as identification, cataloging, fumigation, storage, cleaning, inventory, and specimen preparation for exhibition.
Academic Supervisor: Patricia Aja Sánchez
Museum Conservation & Curation
This course studies museum conservation problems for specimens of all types. It explores fundamental collection documentation and research as well as preventive conservation, storage, and other special curation projects.
Academic Supervisor: Patricia Aja Sánchez
Cultural Resources Management
This course examines the key issues of cultural resource management. Topics include the role in environmental permitting, inventory and significance evaluation of resources, project impacts and design of mitigation measures, consultation with government agencies and tribal organizations, and related issues in museum management.
Academic Supervisor: Patricia Aja Sánchez
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Museology Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
A&MI - Archives and Museums Informatics
AAAM - Association of African-American Museums
AAH - Association of Art Historians
AAM - American Alliance of Museums
AAMD - Association of Art Museum Directors
AAMG - Association of Academic Museums and Galleries
AEGPC - Asociación Española de Gestores de Patrimonio Cultural
AEM - Asociacion Española de Museologia
AFS - American Folklore Society
APOM - Associação Portuguesa de Museologia
COFEM - Conselho Federal de Museologia
FESABID - Federación Española de Asociaciones de Archiveros, Bibliotecarios, Arqueólogos, Museólogos y Documentalistas
IBC - International Biographical Centre
ICCROM - International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property
ICOM - International Council of Museums
IWWHS - International WHO'S WHO Historical Society
MSN - Museum Security Network
SAA - Society of American Archivists
SPNHC - Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
WMF - World Monuments Fund
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Admission requirements - Museology
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Museology Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Museology Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Museology Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
