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
diatom taxonomy, systematics, and ecology
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 include support from the Walker Van Riper fund and research support from the Collie and William Henry Burt museum funds. Other financial assistance is 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.
Graduate Degree Program +
The University Museum offers a program leading to the degree of Master of Science, Museum and Field Studies. Please see Interdisciplinary Programs in the Graduate School section.
Applicants accepted for graduate work by museum faculty must be admitted to the Graduate School.
