53-2565J The Museum Beat:

Students will visit some of Chicago’s leading cultural institutions to report on exhibits such as the Field Museum’s Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti; the Shedd Aquarium’s dazzling Jellies; the Lincoln Park Zoo’s new outdoor exhibit featuring the snow monkeys of Japan; the Adler Planetarium’s lakeside Doane Observatory; the Museum of Science and Industry’s U-505 submarine exhibit; the new Islamic Halls of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Judy Istock Butterfly Haven at the Peggy Notebaert Museum. Students will meet the curators and exhibit staff who designed and built exhibits meant to educate and entertain savvy audiences of the 21st Century.

2 Credits
Requirements Not New Freshman and Not New Transfer Stu.