2024
Museums Collection: Art and Science
Name: Museums Collection: Art and Science
Code: HIS09378D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
History and Philosophy of Science
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
Study the founding theories of contemporary scientific museums; Acquire theoretical knowledge and concomitant research skills in an ethnobiological museum context; Acquire competences to plan research projects; Promote ethnobiological/interdisciplinary museum studies. Art and Science studies
Contents
History of ethnobiology and ethnobiological scientific museums; Research methods in ethnobiology. Techniques of field research and data analysis in an ethnobiological museum framework; Study-case analysis (material culture).
Teaching Methods
Lectures/Discussion of Study Cases/Seminars.
Evaluation shall be done with a written and oral presentation of research results.
Evaluation shall be done with a written and oral presentation of research results.
