Location

Washington, DC, USA

Program Description

Our JMU program provides an extraordinary opportunity to study one Museum Studies course while you are living in Washington, DC. You will visit world-class museums and arts institutions while experiencing the exhibition and gallery culture of the nation's capital, one of the globe's leading centers for the arts. Learning will go well beyond a traditional JMU classroom. Students will make daily on-site visits and guest lectures from local experts, many of them our own JMU Alums. Daily we will visit the leading museums and cultural institutions of the capital. There will be free time for students to explore Washington outside of class activities. The combination of studying, living, and traveling in this location will make this an experience that you will not forget from an academic, professional, and personal perspective.

Location Description

Director

Sarah Brooks | brooksst@jmu.edu | SADAH

Leah Stoddard | stoddala@jmu.edu | SADAH

Accommodations

Accommodations will be provided for students through JMU's Washington Center in shared furnished rooms with internet access in a centrally-located apartment complex in downtown DC: two doubles per apartment.

Students will be allocated a weekly meal stipend that will cover approximately 5 meals per week, covering lunch on the 10 weekdays of the program.

Additional Items to Consider

Program requires 16 hours of online a/synchronous work before departure.

Applicant Criteria

Applicants must have a GPA minimum of 2.0.

Open to all majors and class levels, including graduate students and non-JMU students.