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Course Title
Instructor
TA
Dept./Colleg
e
Category
Language
Conducted
English
Course
No.
LibEdu
1064-02
Course
Type
General
Education
Course
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Credits
Class
Time/Room
Capacity
Class 02
Wednesdays 789
(14:20-17:20)
40-50
R501
(Common
Building
R501)
Course
I. Course Description ()
Descripti
on
At once a Taiwan studies and a museum studies course, this course analyzes a variety of
Course Objectives ()
(1) Students will be interested in and have a basic understanding of the art, history, culture, and
peoples of Taiwan, as well as the history of its museums.
(2) Students will have a basic grasp of key scholarship and topics in museum studies.
(3) Students will develop a critical approach in future museum visitations, being aware of the
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Assigned
and
Further
Readings
Textbooks ()
Preziosi, Donald, and Claire Farago, eds., Grasping the World: The Idea of the Museum.
Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Co., 2004. [hereafter GW]
Carbonell, Bettina M. ed. Museum Studies: An Anthology of Contexts. Oxford, UK: Blackwell
Publishing, 2004. [hereafter MSAC]
Knell, Simon J. [et al.], eds. National Museums: New Studies From Around the World.
London; New York: Routledge, 2011. [hereafter NM]
Weekly Readings ()
Week 1: Introduction: Approach, Topics, and Goals
General Introduction: What Are Museums For? in Preziosi and Farago, eds., Grasping the
World: The Idea of the Museum (Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2003), pp.110.
Week 2: The Birth of Museums: Critical Issues in Museology
Pick one:
Bennet, Tony. The Formation of the Museum, In The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory,
Politics (London & New York, Routledge, 1995), pp.17-47.
Bal, Mieke. The Discourse of the Museum, in Greenberg et al. ed., Thinking about
Exhibitions, London: Routledge, 1996), pp.201-220.
Week 3: Taiwans Museums: A General History
Pick one:
Knell, Simon. National Museums and the National Imagination, in NM, pp.3-28.
Chu, Chi-Jung. Political change and the national museum in Taiwan, in NM, pp.180-192.
Further reading:
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