This course aims to build students’ writing skills in the organizing, producing and presenting research and promotional materials of art and cultural exhibitions/events in a museum setting. Students will be required to understand, generate and communicate materials for a variety of cultural contexts and disciplines.

This course is an elective course and will focus on the developing and strengthening of students’ skills in communication across a range of contexts and disciplines. The course will explore and examine the techniques and processes used in writing for a variety of museum and exhibition related audiences and markets. Students will apply the principles and techniques introduced in the lectures through writing exercises. The writing skills learned in this course are particularly useful to those who wish to develop their careers in the Greater Bay Area with huge employment markets for history and cultural professionals.