Ugh I love Davida so much--she's such an engaging, rigorous but approachable professor that really cares about her class and her students. Overall, this was a good class; it basically functions as an intro to museology/museum studies, but there's a lot of reading. I wish we did learn how to analyze specific museum artifacts and curatorial practices, but the museum visits were fun and the final project (curating your own museum exhibit) was super cool.

Looked at everything that has to do with museums, like curation, architecture/exhibition design, public programming/education, repatriation, etc, and how to make museums ethical and accessible to all audiences and partners. Almost all of it was REALLY interesting and relevant to me, but some of the content seemed to go right against its large theme of museum decolonization and spoke/treated non-American cultures as things to be extracted from... this felt strange and I wasn't sure if we were meant to be critical or feed on these ideas.

The final project was to curate and design both a paper and presentation of an exhibition of our own. This allowed everyone to get extremely creative and into the whole process-- some of the course material was boring or "traditional" to me, but seeing what people came up with for the final was really fun!