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A remarkable variety of courses have used the museum's collections for teaching. Here is a list of courses that have used the collections in the museum's study-storage center from 1990 through 2012:
AAAS8 (10): Introduction to African and African American Studies
AAAS12: Black America to the Civil War (x-listed History 16)
AAAS15: History of Africa Since 1800
AAAS30: Black Images in Popular American Culture
AAAS30: The African American Woman Intellectual
AAAS43: Indigenous African Religions
AAAS44: Culture and Culture Change in Post Colonial Africa
AAAS80: Religion in Africa and the African Diaspora
AAAS87: The Harlem Renaissance (x-listed ArtH17)
Anthro1: Introduction to Anthropology
Anthro3: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Anthro5: Reconstructing the Past: Introduction to Archaeology
Anthro7: First Year Seminar: Ancient Women
Anthro7: First Year Seminar (Endicott)
Anthro7: First Year Seminar: Great Discoveries in Archaeology
Anthro10: Constructing Ethnic Identities in American Cultural History
Anthro11(32): Ancient Native Americans
Anthro12: The Anthropology of Art
Anthro12: The Politics of Gender in Art
Anthro12: Archaeology of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia
Anthro12: (Goldstein)
Anthro12: Museum Anthropology
Anthro17: Anthropology of Health and Illness
Anthro18: Introduction to Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology
Anthro20: Introduction to Ethnographic Field Work
Anthro22: Prehispanic Civilizations of Mesoamerica
Anthro23: Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Anthro23: The Incas (x-listed LACS44)
Anthro24: Civilizations of Ancient Egypt
Anthro25: The Land of the Totem Poles: Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast
Anthro33: The Archaeology of the Andes
Anthro36: Culture and Culture Change in Post Colonial Africa
Anthro38 (47): Peoples of Oceania
Anthro38: Ancient Crafts and Society: Archaeological Approaches to Material Culture
Anthro39: The Inca
Anthro40: Indigenous Peoples and Cultures of North America
Anthro40: Peoples and Cultures of Native North America
Anthro44: Peoples and Cultures of Africa
Anthro44: Globalization from Above and Below
Anthro48 (53): The Anthropology of Religion
Anthro55: Death and Dying
Anthro57(47): Hunters and Gatherers
Anthro72: Museology and the Anthropology of Art
Anthro75: Ecology, Culture, and Environment
Anthro77: Art and Society in Melanesia
Anthro81: Museum Studies (T. Northern)
Anthro85: Independent Study with T. Northern
Anthro87: (T. Northern)
ArtH1: Introduction to the History of Art I
ArtH2: Introduction to the History of Art II
ArtH3: Monuments of Asian Art
ArtH7: First Year Seminar on Modernism
ArtH7: First Year Seminar on Abstract Art
ArtH7: First Year Seminar on Pompeii
ArtH7: First Year Seminar: Art Before Writing
ArtH7: First Year Seminar (A. Rosenthal)
ArtH7: First Year Seminar (McGrath)
ArtH7: First Year Seminar: Japanese Prints
ArtH7: First Year Seminar on Museums
ArtH7: First Year Seminar: Lessons in Visual Literacy
ArtH7: First Year Seminar: Knight, Death and the Devil
ArtH16: Contemporary Art and New Media in the U.S. and Britain, 1975 to Present
ArtH16: Gothic Art and Architecture
ArtH16: Women Artists (1500-2000) and Gender Theories
ArtH16: The Art of the American West
ArtH16: Islamic Art and Architecture
ArtH16: Photography as Art since the 1960's
ArtH16: The History of Photography
ArtH16: Art in Books/Books in Art
ArtH16: Paris in the Nineteenth Century
ArtH16: Impressionism and Post Impressionism
ArtH16: Survey of North American Art: 20th Century
ArtH16: Critical History of the United States Art Museum
ArtH16: History of African-American Art (x-listed: AAAS 88)
ArtH16: Modern Art in Mexico
ArtH16: Michelangelo
ArtH16: The Arts of India
ArtH16: Art Before Writing: From Caves to the Emergence of Cities
ArtH16: Ancient Art and Myth
ArtH16: Indigenous Australian Art and the Politics of Curation
ArtH16: Australian Aboriginal Art
ArtH16: Mexican Art
ArtH17(16): The Japanese Print Tradition
ArtH17(16): The Japanese Painting Tradition
ArtH17 (84): Abstract Expressionism
ArtH17: The Camera in 19th century Asia
ArtH17 (83): Mexican Muralism, 1920-1940
ArtH17: Sculpture and Modernity in Europe
ArtH17 (Schmidt-Linsenhoff)
ArtH17: African Art History
ArtH17: Pilgrimage, Tourism, and Travel in Japanese Art
ArtH17: Contemporary Women Artists
ArtH17: Contemporary Arts of Asia
ArtH17: Twentieth Century Art of Latin America
ArtH17 (16): Books as Art: Renaissance and Baroque Illustrated Books at Dartmouth
ArtH17: The Harlem Renaissance (x-listed AAAS87)
ArtH17: Experiments in Museum Practice and Experience
ArtH17: The Classical Revival in Europe and America
ArtH17: The Archaeology of Israel: From Prehistory to the Roman Period (x-listed JWST 41)
ArtH20: The Art of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East
ArtH21 (33): The Art of Greece- Prehistoric to Classical
ArtH 25: Roman Art
ArtH30: Early Christian Art
ArtH31: Byzantine Art
ArtH33: Gothic Art and Architecture
ArtH35: Medieval Art
ArtH40: The Early Renaissance in Italy
ArtH40: Florence, 1400-1450
ArtH41: Northern Renaissance Art
ArtH42: The High Renaissance and Mannerism in Italy
ArtH45: Southern Baroque Art
ArtH46: Northern Baroque Art
ArtH48: Gender, Race, and Politics in 18th century Visual Culture
ArtH50: American Art
ArtH50: Social History of North American Art: Colonial Era to 1900
ArtH50: Romanticism
ArtH51: Visions of Modernity: The Nineteenth Century
ArtH51: Realism, Impressionism, and Post-Impressionism
ArtH53: Classic Modernism
ArtH54: The First Crisis of Modernism
ArtH55: Late and Post Modernism: Art from 1945 to the Present
ArtH60: The Arts of China
ArtH61 (62): The Arts of Japan
ArtH65: Japanese Prints
ArtH70: American Encounters: From Conquest to 1900 (formerly The Social History of North American Art, Part I)
ArtH71: The "American Century": Modern Art in the United States (formerly The Social History of North American Art, Part II)
ArtH80: History of Museums and Collecting
ArtH80: The Japanese Print
ArtH80: Advanced Seminar in Italian Renaissance Art and Architecture
ArtH80: The Art of the American West
ArtH81: Italian Renaissance Portraiture
ArtH81: Hapsburg Seminar
ArtH81: Art and Society in Melanesia
ArtH81: Asian Photography
ArtH82: The Neoclassical Ideal
ArtH82: Women in the Arts of Japan
ArtH82: Angelica Kauffman: Art and Gender in the 18th and early 19th century Europe
ArtH82: Surrealism Seminar
ArtH82: History of Museums and Collecting
ArtH83: Cubism
ArtH83: Klee, Kandinsky, and the Artists of the Blue Rider
ArtH84 (82)(17) The Blue Rider Group
ArtH84: Women Artists and Gender Theories
ArtH84 (17): Rembrandt as an Etcher
ArtH84(85): Women Artists
ArtH85: Senior Seminar in Art Historical Method and Practice I
ArtH86: Senior Seminar in Art Historical Method and Practice II
AMELL61: Dilemmas of the Modern: Japanese Culture in the 20th Century
AMELL62: Early Chinese Culture
AMELL63: The Karma of Love: Japanese Women Writers and the Classical Canon
ARAB23: Intermediate Level Modern Standard Arabic
JAPN31: Advanced Japanese
JAPN33: Advanced Japanese
JAPN61: The Art of War: Stories, Paintings, Films, and Propaganda from Japan's Modern Wars
AMES42: Visual Culture of Tibet and the Himalayas (x-listed Religion 40)
Chinese 62: Early Chinese Culture (x-listed History 73)
CLST1: Antiquity Today: Introduction to Classical Studies
CLST4: Classical Mythology
CLST6: Introduction to Classical Archaeology
CLST7: First Year Seminar: Constantine
GRS7: First Year Seminar (Ulrich)
CLST7: First Year Seminar (Sullivan)
CLST7: First Year Seminar: The Idea of Rome
CLST11: Slaves, Wives, and Concubines
CLST11: Who Owns the Past?
CLST11: Sports and Democratization
GRS17 (22): Roman History-The Republic
GRS18: History of the Roman Empire
CLST19: Methods and Theory in Ancient History
GRS21: From Disaster to Triumph- Greek Archaeology from the Destruction of the Mycenae to the Persian Wars
CLST22: Greek Classical Archaeology: City-States and Panhellenic Sanctuaries
GRS24 (54): Etruscan and Early Roman Archaeology: The Rise of Rome
GRS25: Early Roman Imperial Archaeology
CLST25: Early Roman Archaeology: The First Emperors
GRS26: Later Roman Imperial Archaeology: The Golden Age and Beyond
GRS30: Introduction to Museology
GRS52 (53): Greek Classical Archaeology
GRS55: (Bradley)
CoCo2: The Classical Tradition and the Modern World, 1750-2000
CoCo2 (12): Reading Artifacts: The Material Culture of Science
CoCo3: From Pole to Pole: An Introduction to the Earth's Cold Regions
CoCo4: Bauhaus
CoCo5: Inside Out; Prison, Women and Performance
CoCo9: Imaging Power: Ideology, Authority and Representation in Medieval Europe
CoCo10: The Performative Body
CoCo21: War Zones: Cultural Issues in Twentieth Century War
CompLit7: First Year Seminar: Questions of Travel
CompLit7: First Year Seminar: The City and Suburb
CompLit7: First Year Seminar (Miliotes)
CompLit10: Creating in Partnership in Surrealism: 1924-1969
CompLit18: Transformations Across Media
CompLit27: Dr. Frankenstein to Mr. Hyde
CompLit29: Postmodernism
CompLit52: The Borderlands: Latina/o Writers in the United States
CompLit52: Cultures and Colonialism in the Spanish Speaking Caribbean: 1898 and the Transition Between Empires.
CompLit61: Outsider Art or the Primitive Within
CompLit62: Film as Poetry: The Avant Garde
CompLit64: Literature and History: Metaphors in the Making
CompLit65: Literature, Science, and Madness
CompLit67: Surrealism and Feminism
CompLit73: Spectacle and Exhibitionism
CompLit100: Culture and Psychoanalysis
EARS1: Introduction to Earth Sciences
Education 41: Principles of Elementary School Teaching
English 5: Literature and Composition
English 7: First Year Seminar: Writing and Photography
English 7: First Year Seminar: The African American Woman Intellectual
English 7: First Year Seminar: Buddhism in American Literature
English 7: First Year Seminar: Writing About Art
English 7: First Year Seminar: Sense and Surveillance
English 17: Introduction to New Media
English 31: The Age of Johnson
English 34: Romantic Poetry
English 37: Victorian Literature and Culture, 1860-1901
English 45: Native American Literature
English 53: Twentieth Century British Fiction 1900-1939
English 67: Woolfenstein
ENGS2: Integrated Design: Engineering, Architecture, and Building Technology
ENVST1: Humans and Nature in America
ENVST7: The Environment of Africa
ENVST7: Ecopsychology
ENVST15: From Pole to Pole: Environmental Issues from the Earth's Cold Regions
ENVST80: Sustainable Agriculture: Past Developments and Future Projects
ENVST80: Arctic Environmental Change and Its Human Dimensions
ENVST80: Writing Our Way Home
ENVST80: Polar Science, Policy, and Ethics
Film Studies 1: Introduction to Film
Film and Television Studies 7:First Year Seminar (Lawrence)
Film and Television Studies class (Jim Brown)
Film and Television Studies 40: Theories and Methodologies of Film and Television Studies
Film and Television Studies 41: Film as Poetry: The Avant Garde
Film and Television Studies 46: Topics in Television: Broadcast and Electronic Journalism
Film and Television Studies 47: Topics in Film and Media Studies: The Hollywood Star
Film and Television Studies 47: Topics in Film and Media Studies: Handmade Strategies
Film and Television Studies 48: Topics in Digital Culture and New Media Technologies: Games and Playculture
Film and Television Studies 48: New Media: Theory and Practice
Film and Television Studies 48: The Map (x-listed SArt 17)
Film and Television Studies 50: Topics in Film Theory: Cyber-Disciplinarity
Film and Television Studies 50: Topics in Film Theory: Cyber-Theory
Film Studies 70: Senior Seminar
French 8: A Cultural Approach to Advanced Writing and Speaking
French 8: Exploring French Culture and Language
French 10: Introduction to French Literature
French 10: Travel and Literature
French 10: Fiction and National Identity
French 10: Anatomy of Passion: Couples in Love
French 20: Interpreting French Culture: France and the Other
French 23: Introduction to French Literature II: Neoclassicism and the Eighteenth Century
French 24: Introduction to French Literature and Culture III: The Nineteenth Century
French 25: Introduction to French Literature and Culture IV: The Twentieth Century
French40: French Literature: The Approach through Genre
French50: French Literature and Surrealism
French 80: Surrealism in Art, Literature, and Culture (1924-1969)
French 80 (40): The Literary Portrait
French 80: La Vie Intime
French 80: Photographie, Litterature, et Societe
Geography 1: Introduction to Human Geography
Geography 11: Qualitative Methods and the Research Process in Geography
Geography 25: Social Justice and the City
Geography 41: Gender, Space, and Islam (x-listed WGST 37.2)
German2: Introductory German II
German65: Prose Fiction-Realism
German81: Literary Realisms 1848-1900
Government 7: First Year Seminar: Politics and Culture in Cuba
History 1: The United States, 1763-1877
History 2: History of the United States since 1877
History 6: Cloth, Dress, and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora
History 6: History of the American West
History 6: Women and Gender in the African Diaspora
History 7: First Year Seminar: Shogun and Samarai
History 7: First Year Seminar (Estabrook)
History 7: First Year Seminar: After the Revolution: New England in American Culture
History 7: First Year Seminar: Harem: Imagination and Reality
History 14: The Invasion of America: American Indian History Pre-Contact to 1830 (x-listed NAS14)
History 16: Black American to the Civil War (x-listed AAAS12)
History 18: United States Political History in the Nineteenth Century
History 20: American Intellectual and Cultural History through the Civil War
History 27: Gender and Power in American History from the Colonial Period to the Civil (x-listed WGST23)
History 35: The Creation of America in the Age of Jefferson
History 66 History of Africa Since 1800
History 68: Nationalism and Decolonialization in Modern Africa
History 73: Early Chinese Culture (x-listed Chinese 62)
History 83: The Great Depression
History95: The Automobile in American Life
History 95: American Material Culture
History 96: Lewis and Clark in the American West
History 96: Topics in Medieval History
History 96: Topics in African Social and Economic History
History 96: Native American History in the U.S. West, 1500-1890: Contact, Conflict, and Survival (x-listed NAS 81)
Italian 1: Introductory Italian
Italian 24: Nineteenth Century Italian Literature and Culture
Italian 34: Renaissance Studies in Translation
Italian 55: Humanism and Renaissance
Italian 57 (23): Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Italian Literature and Culture
Jewish Studies 4: Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible
Jewish Studies 7: First Year Seminar (Kangas)
Jewish Studies 15: Cities of the Biblical World
Jewish Studies 41: The Archaeology of Israel: From Prehistory to the Roman Period (x-listed ArtH17)
Jewish Studies 41: Cities of the Biblical World
LACS41: Representations of/from Latinos in the Media and the Arts
LACS44: The Incas (x-listed Anthro23)
LACS49: Mexican Muralism, 1920-1940
MALS308 (215): Surrealism
MALS190: The West as America
MALS300: Art and Math
Math 5: Pattern: An Interdisciplinary Course in Textile Design and Elementary Group Theory
Music 4: Music of Non-Western Peoples
Music 9: Music Visualization
NAS7: First Year Seminar: America's Indian
NAS8: Perspectives in Native American Studies
NAS10: Peoples and Cultures of Native North America
NAS15: American Indian History 1830 to Present
NAS11(20): Ancient Native Americans
NAS14: The Invasion of America: American Indian History Pre-Contact to 1830 (x-listed History 14)
NAS21: Indigenous Peoples and Cultures of North America
NAS21: Peoples and Cultures of Native North America
NAS25: Indian Country Today
NAS25: Native Americans in Contemporary Society
NAS30: Contemporary Native American Art
NAS30: The Arts and Cultures of Western Native North America
NAS30: Sacred Objects, Sacred Persons: Understanding Native American Religion
NAS30: Perspectives in American Indian Studies
NAS30: Native Knowledge Systems and Material Culture
NAS35: Native American Literature
NAS42: Gender Issues in Native American Life
NAS49: The Land of the Totem Poles: Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast
NAS54: Who Owns Native Culture?
NAS80: Issues in Contemporary Native American Art
NAS81: Lewis and Clark in the American West
NAS81: Native American History in the U.S. West, 1500-1890: Contact, Conflict, and Survival (x-listed History 96)
Philosophy 23: Philosophy of Art
Philosophy 80: Advanced Seminar: Philosophy of Images
Physics 7: First Year Seminar
Religion 1: Patters of Religious Experience
Religion 4: Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible
Religion 7: First Year Seminar: Egypt Religion
Religion 7: First Year Seminar: Beginnings and Ends of Time
Religion 10: The Religions of China
Religion 14: Women and Religion in Africa
Religion 19: Christianity in Europe, 1400-1700: Reformation and Counter Reformation
Religion 19: Tibetan Buddhism
Religion 20: theoretical Approaches to the Study of Myth: Interpreting Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
Religion 23(55): Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Myth: Interpreting Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
Religion 39: (Amadiume)
Religion 40: Visual Culture of Tibet and the Himalayas (x-listed AMES42)
Religion 50: Indiginous African Religions (x-listed AAAS43)
Religion 51: The Virgin of Guadalupe: From Tilma to Tattoo
Religion 55: Ancient Egyptian Religion
Religion 58: The Hebrew Bible and Ancient Israelite Archaeology
Religion 79: Religion and the American Civil War
Religion 81: Orientalism and the Origins of Religion
Russian 15: Introduction to Russian Civilization
Russian 32: Modern Russian Literature in Translation
Sociology 7: First Year Seminar on Hurricane Katrina
Spanish 7: First Year Seminar (Sokol)
Spanish 20: The Spanish Language: Advanced Training through Contemporary Spanish Culture
Spanish 31: Introduction to Hispanic Literature II: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Spanish 32: Introduction to Hispanic Literature III: The 20th Century
Spanish 50: Gender and Sexuality in Hispanic Studies
Spanish 54: Spanish Poetry of the Renaissance and Baroque
Spanish 57: From Romanticism to Realism: Spanish Intellectuals and the New Bourgeois State
Spanish59: Avant-Garde Movements and Social Poetry in Spain
Spanish 60: Exile, Repression, and Writing in Post-Civil War Spain
Spanish 69: Modernismo and Vanguardia
Spanish 80: Senior Seminar in Hispanic Studies: Romanticism and Realism in Spain during the 19th century
SArt10: Basic Design
SArt15: Drawing I
SArt16: Sculpture I
SArt17: Site Specific Art and Landscape Design
SArt17: The Map (x-listed Film and Television Studies 48)
SArt20: Drawing II
SArt21: Sculpture II
SArt22: Figure Drawing
SArt23: Figure Sculpture
SArt25: Painting I
SArt26: Printmaking I- Lithography
SArt27: Printmaking I- Intaglio
SArt28: Printmaking II
SArt29: Photography I
SArt30: Photography II
SArt31: Painting II
SArt65: Architecture I
SArt66: Architecture II
SArt68: Architecture III
SArt71: Drawing III
SArt72: Painting III
SArt73: Sculpture III
SArt75: Photography III
SArt76: Senior Seminar I
SArt77: Senior Seminar II
Theater 1: Introduction to Theater Studies
Theater 10: The Theatricality of War
Theater 10: African Theater
Theater16: History of Early Modern Theater and Drama
Theater 28: Dance Composition
Theater 30: Acting I
Theater 38: Movement for Actors I
Drama 46: Costume History and Design I
Drama 47: Costume History and Design II
Theater48: Costume Design I
Drama49: Costume Design II
Theater 19: Modern Drama II
Theater92: Senior Seminar
WS7: Women and Surrealism
WGST7: First Year Seminar: In the Eyes/"I's" of Surrealist Women Artists
WGST7: First Year Seminar: Women, Art, and Politics
WGST10: Sex, Gender, and Society
WS23: French Women- Artists and Writers
WGST23: Gender and Power in American History from the Colonial Period to the Civil War (x-listed History 27)
WGST25: Women and Gender in Africa: Historical Perspectives
WGST30: Why the Devil Wears Prada: Economics of the Fashion Industry
WGST 37.2: Gender, Space, and Islam (x-listed Geography 41)
WGST40: The Borderlands: Latina/o Writers in the United States
WGST45: Women Artists (1500-2000) and Gender Theories
WS45: Surrealism and Feminism
WS45: Contemporary Women Artists
WGST80: Feminist Theory and Methodology
Writing 2: (Boone)
Writing 2: (Moody)
Writing 3: (Chaney)
Writing 5: (Thum)
Writing 5: (Nichols)
Writing 5: (Crocker)
Writing 5: (Gamboa)
Writing 5: Frankenstein (Zeiger)
Writing 8: Writing With Media
DMS elective: The Art and Craft of Medicine
DMS elective: Art of Observation