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Certificate Requirements

Any matriculated graduate student at the University of South Carolina may apply to the Museum Management Certificate Program. The Certificate of Graduate Study in Museum Management will be awarded upon the completion of 18 semester hours, including one internship project. The content of the project will be designed to suit the needs of the individual student.

All students must complete the core curriculum of 12 semester hours. Six approved hours may be taken in subject areas of graduate degree study such as anthropology, art, business administration, history, library and information science, or public administration. A number of departments have integrated the certificate program within their own areas of study. Up to 6 semester hours are recognized by the Departments of Anthropology and Art, the School of Library and Information Science, and the Master of Public Administration Program. The Public History Program of the Department of History recognizes up to 9 semester hours. Specific MUSM courses are listed below.

• MUSM 700 - Administration and Management of Museums
   
• MUSM 701 - Exhibition Development
   
• MUSM 702 - Museum Internship
   
• MUSM 703 - Museum Management: Independent Study
   
• MUSM 704 - Collecting, Collections Management, and Curatorial Practice
   

 For more information about this program, write: Museum Management Program, McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208.