The history of the museum case

Course: Archaeology and Prehistory

Structural unit: Faculty of History

Title
The history of the museum case
Code
ОК.32
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
To know the object, subject, issues and methods of studying the history of museum affairs. Know the sources of study and historiography of the history of the museum business. To know the process of becoming a museum as a socio-cultural institution during the Renaissance. To know the main trends in the development of the museum sphere in the 17th - 20th centuries. To be able to characterize the motivations of pre-museum collecting. To be able to identify and evaluate the main trends of collecting in antiquity and the Middle Ages. To be able to characterize the process of development of the museum sphere in Europe in the XVII-XVIII centuries. To be able to characterize the development of museology in the 19th - 20th centuries. To be able to analyze the forms of presentations of pre-museum gatherings. To be able to characterize the peculiarities of the emergence and development of museums outside Europe.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
1. To know the most important facts, events and processes of the historical past of mankind. 2. To be able to determine the characteristic features that are characteristic for the emergence of the phenomenon of collecting, for the formation of methodological and theoretical foundations of modern museology. 3. Possess elementary skills of source criticism, historical analysis, establishment of cause and effect relationships.
Course content
The content of the course is divided into 2 content modules. Each content module includes lectures, seminars, independent work of students, which are completed by rating control of the level of assimilation of knowledge of the program material of the corresponding part of the course. Content module 1 (ЗМ1) includes topics 1-7, content module 2 (ЗМ2) includes topics 8-13. The results of students' educational activities are evaluated on a 100-point scale.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Alexander E.P. Museums in Motion. – Nashville: AASLH Press. – 1979. Alexander E.P. Museum Masters. – Nashville: AASLH Press. – 1983. Alexander E.P. Museums in America. Innovators and Pioneers / E.P. Alexander. – Walnut Creek; L.; New Delhi, Altamira press, 1997. Lewis G.D. Collectors, Collecting and Museums. A Brief World Survey / G.D. Lewis // Manuel of Curatorship. A Guide to Museums Practice / ed. M.A. Thompson et al. – L.: Butterworths, 1984. Wittlin A.S. The Museum: in Search of Usable Future. - Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1970.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Planned educational events and teaching methods - lectures, seminars, practical classes, independent work.
Assessment methods and criteria
The control of the student's knowledge is carried out according to the modular rating system. The total number of student points is formed by the semester points received from all topics of two content modules (points received for modular control papers (in the form of tests); points received for completing individual tasks; points received for work in seminar classes, as well as points which are received for the final control work. The results of students' educational activities are evaluated on a 100-point scale. The criteria for evaluating a student's answer are: • complete disclosure of the issue • the logic of presentation • use of basic and additional literature • analytical reasoning, the ability to draw conclusions
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Inna Anatoliivna Kravchenko
Department of Archeology and Museology
Faculty of History

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Archeology and Museology
Faculty of History