University Catalog

Museum and Field Studies

Degree ... MS

Museum courses listed in this catalog may be taken with the approval of the student's major department and the course instructor, although no undergraduate major is offered in museum studies. A graduate professional certificate in Museum and Field Studies is offered to graduate students in other disciplines.

Graduate training in anthropology, art history, history, botany, entomology, paleontology, and zoology is provided under the direction of museum faculty in cooperation with cognate departments and the museum and field studies program. Areas of study include, but are not limited to:

• anthropological interpretation
• southwestern archaeology and ethnology
• plant taxonomy, evolution, and phytogeography
• vertebrate paleontology and Cenozoic stratigraphy
• biology of aquatic invertebrates
• systematics and population biology of insects of the Rocky Mountain Region
• plant-insect interactions

Museum assistantships, research support from the Collie, Walker Van Riper, and William Henry Burt museum funds, and other financial assistance are available to selected students. Students interested in working toward advanced degrees under the direction of museum faculty should write the University of Colorado Museum, Museum and Field Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, 265 UCB, Boulder, CO 80309-0265, e-mail mfsinfo@colorado.edu, or visit cumuseum.colorado.edu/MFS.

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