About

2-year degree

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3 quarters your first year and 3 quarters your second year with a summer break in between

Seattle campus

60 credits

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Includes 44 credits for courses, 10 credits for thesis, & 6 credits for internship

Our curriculum

Cohort model

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In-person, on campus, cohort model that emphasizes immersive collaborative learning

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Our values

We define museums broadly

We’re interested not just in art museums or natural history museums as some programs are, but rather in all kinds of museums – children’s museums, science centers, zoos and aquaria, and national parks, for example.

Museums can make the world a better place

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The power of museums lies in the role they play in learning, wellbeing, community building, and social activism. We focus on these things specifically.

Museums are learning institutions

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Museums are part of a much larger informal learning infrastructure, a community ecology that includes libraries, community-based organizations and more. We focus on transferrable skills across this ecology.