College Programs
With a permament collection of over 11,000 objects spanning history and the globe, a rotating schedule of interdisciplinary exhibitions, and classroom and gallery spaces for object study, The Trout Gallery offers numerous opportunities for faculty to incorporate visual culture and hands-on learning into their classes.
Class Visits
The Education staff works with faculty members to develop museum-based programs to expand and enrich course syllabi. Programs are designed with the faculty member to address the specific needs of each course. Some sample formats include:
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Meet with your students in the Trout Gallery as part of a class session or assignment, integrating course works in an exhibition currently on display
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One-time program based on a material in a temporary exhibition; to be used once
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First-Year Seminar Programs: Visual Analysis, Audience Perspectives, Developing an Interpretation
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On-going program based on material in the museum’s collections; objects from the vaults moved to a Trout classroom for examination
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Individual research project (for students and faculty/student collaborations) based on the museum’s collections
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Request objects be put on view for your class in our Curricular Gallery
Contact Heather Flaherty, Curator of Education, for more information: flaherth@dickinson.edu.
To request objects be put on view in our Curricular Gallery, email James Bowman, Registrar, at bowman@dickinson.edu
Language Courses
Through specially designed language-based programs, students expand their conversational skills and broaden their working vocabulary. The education staff works with language professors and their teaching assistants to plan a program in the course language with exhibit-related vocabulary list, learning goals, and discussion questions that relate to the museum’s exhibitions and collection materials. More than one hundred language classes participate in such programs each year.
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