The Brown Center for Public Humanities lists courses under the American Studies rubric: AMST.   Our flexible program draws on Brown University's open curriculum.  Elective courses can be selected from approved 1000 and 2000 level courses offered at Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design, and the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.  

In the fall of 2013, the Center is sponsoring the following courses:

AMST 1903Z, Shrine, House or Home: Rethinking the House Museum Paradigm (Ronald Potvin), Course Registration Number: 14277

AMST 2650: Introduction to Public Humanities (Anne Valk), Course Registraiton Number: 14275 

AMST 2653: Public Art, Theory and Practice (Janet Zweig), Course Registration Number 14601

AMST 2656: Cultural Policy Planning (Craig Dreeszen), Course Registration Number 14814

AMST 2661: Visualizations in the Humanities: From the Cabinet of Curiosities to the Geoparser (Steve Lubar and Massimo Riva), Course Registration Number: 14758

GRAD-015G-01, The Artist and the Museum (Debra Balken).  Registration via RISD cross-registration (instructions here) (Syllabus)

Please visit Brown's course catalogue for a complete listing of course offerings.

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