Ideas & Inspiration

Are you interested in bringing your class to the Museum, but not sure where to begin? Here you can browse your colleagues’ innovative approaches to object-based teaching. Museum visits can connect objects directly to course themes, while simultaneously creating a space for experiential learning and honing important transferable skills. These include close observation, visual and critical analysis, questioning assumptions, evidence-based reasoning, working collaboratively in diverse teams, creative response, and research using primary sources.

Art History 271
Michael Davis, Professor of Art History
Religion 337/Medieval Studies 300
Michael Penn, Professor of Religion
History 252
Desmond Fitz-Gibbon, Assistant Professor of History
Anthropology 216
Elizabeth Klarich, Five College Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Chemistry 325
Himali Jayathilake, Senior Laboratory Instructor, and Maria Gomez, Professor of Chemistry
History 271
Christine DeLucia, Assistant Professor of History
First-Year Seminar 110
Dylan Shepardson, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
English 312/Film Studies 380
Amy Rodgers, Assistant Professor of English
Art History 310
Bettina Bergmann, Professor of Art History