During Winter Session, for example, students may take a course in environmental institution management, being offered for the 10th year at Ashland Nature Center. There will be 35 guest lecturers, who will discuss a variety of subjects, from long-range planning to coordinating volunteers. Another requirement is a three-credit internship, which may be in a museum or institution anywhere in the United States and may last a summer or six months. Graduate students not seeking certification may take museum studies courses. Approximately 90 persons are enrolled in the Museum Studies Program, with 15 seeking certification.
Museum studies is an outreach program as well.
Each year students must research and organize a public exhibit at the University Gallery in Old College. The book, published in 1987, was an outgrowth of an exhibition shown in Delaware's three counties, which was designed and presented by Garrison's museum studies exhibit class. Another outreach project has been the annual Museum Studies Conference, which began under the leadership of Edward P. Alexander, the founding director of the program. These conferences, for graduate students and museum professionals, has made the University a center for museum-related information and activities, Tolles said. Next fall, the Museum Studies Progam will co-sponsor, with the New York State Historical Association of Cooperstown, an important workshop on leadership in history museums in Albany.