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The Museum

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Studies
program at USF is a really exciting

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opportunity
for students to launch into the field

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and learn about all different types
of museums and careers in them.

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Through studying at USF, I had kind of
more exposure as a museum professional

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and more people kind of knew who I was,
so it made it easier,

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at least for me to get my start
in the museum world after the program.

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University of San Francisco
is ideally located for studying museums.

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We have students who have interned
at the De Young Museum.

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We have students working at SFMOMA,
the California Academy of Sciences.

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So there are so many exciting places
where students

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can launch their careers and internships.

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We’re
all blending in together and learning

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from each other and helping one another.

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Not only by getting a good education,

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but I’m in a very beautiful
and kind of culturally diverse place.

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The Museum Studies

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Program also teaches
through a lens of social justice,

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and so we would analyze

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museum policy, sort of understand
if they are helping

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or hindering social progress.

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So we are priming them
through our coursework,

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through internships to do that hard work,
to ignite community conversations

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around tough issues
today, like racial justice,

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human rights, climate change,
and so many other issues.

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Specifically,
I want to look towards the community,

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the immigrant community,
look towards the multilingual community

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and really bring them into the museum
space because,

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you know, museums are for everybody.

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Students who graduate from our program
will join the field

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as a community of changemakers
and really go in

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and take the skills that they've learned
and really make a difference.