Skill-Building Exercises

Usually led by Museum staff, 技能训练训练学生的观察力, analytical, and writing abilities. 为满足教授的特定目标而设计的, 这些课程不需要事先熟悉特定的对象, 而是提供一个独立观察和分析的框架. 技能转移到其他需要观察的领域, close reading, or primary source research. 观察和分析练习可以合并到其他作业中, 或者可以成为研究或创造性项目的基础.

Class Discussions

由博物馆职员及/或课程教授协助, 学生的任务是根据博物馆体验提供的新刺激来重新理解课程内容. Sometimes there is a direct link between the content of the exhibition and the course topic; other times the students must work to make the connections.

Museum-Based Assignments

Designed in collaboration with Museum staff, 以博物馆为基础的作业可能包括观察的元素, analysis, research, critique, or creative response. Examples include (but are not limited to): providing a mathematical equation to describe the trajectory of an object photographed in motion; describing an artwork in a second language; analyzing the ways in which landscape paintings from multiple eras reveal beliefs about the environment; or creating a poetic, literary, or kinesthetic response to artwork on display.

Exhibition Interventions

这是一个更复杂的基于博物馆的任务, 这些项目让学生直接参与公共博物馆的展览. 作业通常占课程作业的很大一部分. 干预措施可能包括:写对象标签或小册子副本, producing related video content for exhibitions, sharing publically creative responses, such as dance, poetry, or monologs; and offering alternative tours of exhibitions.

Collections Access and Research

The Museum collection comprises over 22,000 objects, with rich holdings in American Art; Modern and Contemporary Art; and historical and contemporary art and cultural objects from the Southwest region. With advanced notice and planning, 博物馆工作人员将为学生提供参观馆藏的机会，并在课堂上提供特定的物品供学生学习，或供个别学生在经批准的课程中进行研究. 学生可以在博物馆工作人员和课程教授的指导下接受基本的物品处理训练.

Unblocked Gallery

博物馆内的这个教学和展览空间可供所有学科的教师使用，他们希望在Block课程中建立与物质和视觉文化的持续接触. Unblocked Gallery projects may include: mini-exhibitions of objects pulled from the Museum's permanent collection; student research and/or creative response to objects; iterative displays wherein objects may be re-ordered or reinterpreted to create new curatorial narratives, or student research is continually added and modified; or the creation of a gallery/laboratory setting in which research on the composition, history, 或对象的状况进行和信息与公众共享.

Faculty Curated Exhibitions

博物馆为教师提供了选择的机会，让他们与博物馆工作人员一起策划源于自己研究的展览，或者与展览期间教授的一门或多门课程有深入联系.

Faculty Development Workshops

博物馆通过提供单一主题的研讨会和一个学期的教师队列来支持教师的发展. Offered in collaboration with The Crown Center, 这些讲习班与博物馆的具体学习目标有关. The Visual Cultures Faculty Learning Community is a semester-long series of workshops, discussions, 以及旨在激发和支持物质文化与大学课程之间有意义的跨学科联系的工作会议. 这个基于应用程序的项目对所有学科的全职教师开放.

Fine Arts Center Museum Faculty Fellows Program

每年通过提案程序颁发, 教员研究员进行研究或工作项目，利用博物馆和西南收藏的可能性进行研究和教学. Desired components include: interdisciplinary approaches and topics; a collaborative approach to project development; incorporation of diverse perspectives; use of innovative pedagogies; and experiential course components.

Museum Classroom

课程涉及与博物馆持续接触的教师可以申请使用博物馆教室进行整体课程.

Student Internships

美术中心博物馆在夏季和整个学年为学生提供各种实习和志愿者机会.

Visiting Artists and Scholars

该博物馆吸引了来自该地区和世界各地的艺术家和学者来分享艺术品, conduct research, perform, lecture, and engage with students. Often visitors are available to visit classes, conduct critiques of artistic or scholarly work, or work on collaborative projects with students. 博物馆工作人员可以协助协调这类活动.