Academic Engagement
Through our work with exhibitions, collections, and programming we aspire to connect with every department and school at USC and to make USC PAM meaningful to your work and to your students.
Curriculum Development
Through our work with exhibitions, collections, and programming we aspire to connect with every department and school at USC and to make USC PAM meaningful to your work and to your students. Faculty who have worked with USC PAM come from departments as diverse as Anthropology, Art History, English, and Music, and Schools as diverse as Engineering, Law, and Journalism. We also connect faculty to one another to develop projects and exchange ideas on how to incorporate museum experiences into teaching and research. We can introduce you to other faculty members who have worked with USC PAM, teaching with its exhibitions, using its collections in their research, and creating public programs.
Professional Practices
As an AAM accredited museum, USC PAM upholds field-wide best practices. We can talk to your students about our professional work from multiple perspectives, including curatorial, exhibition design, registration, and administrative leadership.
Academic Research
USC PAM’s collection provides an innovative and active teaching and learning resource for the University and its surrounding communities. Professors in fields as varied as performance studies, journalism, and material science visit our collection and access our online collections database to teach visual literacy, develop critical thinking skills, and draw thematic connections.
USC Museums Student Educator Program
In this program, students are trained to facilitate conversations in the galleries and lead tours of both the permanent collection and special exhibitions at the USC Pacific Asia Museum (off-campus in Pasadena) and The USC Fisher Museum of Art (on campus). They learn to engage visitors of all ages and backgrounds with the museums’ diverse works of art by leading dialogues and making personal connections.