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MFS GRADUATE PROGRAM - COGNATE DEPARTMENTS
In addition to choosing Public/Administration or Collections/Field Track, students also choose a cognate to focus their studies. A student's advisor will typically be appointed in a cognate department, or specializing in the same area of museum work.
Past students have also arranged other cognates on a case-by-case basis, including Archives and Geology.
Public/Administration Cognates |
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Education |
Collections/Field Cognates |
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Anthropology |
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Art History, Fine Arts, Art & Archicture |
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Botany |
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Entomology |
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Paleontology |
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Zoology |