Museums
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Object-Based Learning: A Powerful Pedagogy for Higher Education
Hands-On Learning Through Objects
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, William Dorr Boardman Professor of Fine Arts, is an art historian who focuses on 18th- and 19th-century European and contemporary post-1970s art.
HAM Faculty Resources
From STEM to STEAM
STEM majors, art thinkers (STEM + arts)
Collaboration with the Harvard Art Museums
Kaighin McColl, Assistant Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and of Environmental Science and Engineering, is a hydrologist who extended his General Education course, Water and the Environment, beyond the science to include artistic representations...
Using Museum Exhibits: An Innovation in Experiential Learning
Understanding culture through material artifacts
Students in Japanese art and architecture courses taught by Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture, often encounter cultures quite different from their own.
Moving from passive learning to active exploration of the physical world
Scott Edwards, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Curator of Ornithology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), makes extensive use of the museum’s ornithology collections in his courses and brings specimens into his lecture...