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 2005:
AAAS8: Introduction to African and African American Studies
AAAS15: History of Africa since 1800
AAAS30: Black Images in Popular American Culture
AAAS30: The African American Woman Intellectual
AAAS44: Culture and Culture Change in Post-Colonial Africa
AAAS80: Religion in Africa and the African Diaspora
Anthro7: Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Anthro7: First Year Seminar: Ancient Women
Anthro7: First Year Seminar (Endicott)
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)
Anthro20: Introduction to Ethnographic Field Work
Anthro23: Civilizations of the Ancient Near East
Anthro24: Civilization 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
Anthro48 (53): The Anthropology of Religion
Anthro55: Death and Dying
Anthro57: Hunters and Gatherers
Anthro72: Museology and the Anthropology of Art
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 (Kangas)
ArtH7: First Year Seminar: Japanese Prints
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 1960s
ArtH16: The History of Photography
ArtH16: Art in Books/Books in Art
ArtH17(16): The Japanese Print Tradition
ArtH17: The Japanese Painting Tradition
ArtH17: Abstract Expressionism
ArtH17: The Camera in 19th-century Asia
ArtH17: 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
ArtH20: The Art of Ancient Egypt and the Ancient Near East
ArtH21 (33): The Art of GreeceÑPrehistoric to Classical
ArtH30: Early Christian Art
ArtH31: Byzantine Art
ArtH35: Medieval Art
ArtH40: The Early Renaissance in Italy
ArtH41: Northern Renaissance Art
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
ArtH51: Visions of Modernity: The Nineteenth Century
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
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
ArtH82: The Neoclassical Ideal
ArtH82: Women in the Arts of Japan
ArtH82: Angelica Kauffman: Art and Gender in 18th- and early 19th-century Europe
ArtH82: Surrealism Seminar
ArtH83: Cubism
ArtH84 (82) The Blue Rider Group
ArtH84: Women Artists and Gender Theories
ArtH84: 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
CLST1: Antiquity Today: Introduction to Classical Studies
CLST4: Classical Mythology
CLST6: Introduction to Classical Archaeology
CLST7: First Year Seminar on Constantine
GRS7: First Year Seminar (Ulrich)
GRS17 (22): Roman HistoryÑThe 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
GRS24 (54): Etruscan and Early Roman Archaeology: The Rise of Rome
GRS25: Early Roman Imperial Archaeology
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<ETH>2000
CoCo3: From Pole to Pole: An Introduction to the Earth's Cold Regions
CoCo9: Imaging Power: Ideology, Authority and Representation in Medieval Europe
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
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
CompLit67: Surrealism and Feminism
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 31: The Age of Johnson
English 34: Romantic Poetry
English 45: Native American Literature
ENVST7: The Environment of Africa
ENVST80: Sustainable Agriculture: Past Developments and Future Projects
Film Studies 1: Introduction to Film
Film and Television Studies 7: First Year Seminar (Lawrence)
Film and Television Studies 46: Topics in Television (Williams)
Film Studies 50: Topics in Film Theory: Cyber-Disciplinarity
Film Studies 70: Senior Seminar
French 8: A Cultural Approach to Advanced Writing and Speaking
French 10: Introduction to French Literature
French 10: Travel and Literature
French 10: Fiction and National Identity
French 20: Interpreting French Culture: France and the Other
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: L Vie Intime
French 80: Photographie, Litterature, et Societe
German65: Prose Fiction: Realism
German81: Literary Realisms, 1848-1900
History 1: The United States, 1763<ETH>1877
History 2: History of the United States since 1877
History 6: Cloth, Dress, and Identity in Africa and the Diaspora
History 7: First Year Seminar: Shogun and Samurai
History 7: First Year Seminar (Estabrook)
History 7: First Year Seminar: After the Revolution: New England in American Culture
History 20: American Intellectual and Cultural History through the Civil War
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
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
Italian 55: Humanism and Renaissance
Italian 57: 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
LACS49: Mexican Muralism, 1920<ETH>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
NAS10: Peoples and Cultures of Native North America
NAS11(20): Ancient Native Americans
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
NAS35: Native American Literature
NAS49: The Land of the Totem Poles: Native Peoples of the Northwest Coast
NAS80: Issues in Contemporary Native American Art
NAS81: Lewis and Clark in the American West
Religion 4: Religion of Israel: The Hebrew Bible
Religion 14: Women and Religion in Africa
Religion 23(55): Theoretical Approaches to the Study of Myth: Interpreting Ancient Near Eastern Mythology
Religion 39: (Amadiume)
Religion 79: Religion and the American Civil War
Russian 15: Introduction to Russian Civilization
Russian 32: Modern Russian Literature in Translation
Spanish 20: The Spanish Language: Advanced Training through Contemporary Spanish Culture
Spanish 32: Introduction to Hispanic Literature III: The 20th Century
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
SArt10: Basic Design
SArt15: Drawing I
SArt16: Sculpture I
SArt20: Drawing II
SArt21: Sculpture II
SArt22: Figure Drawing
SArt23: Figure Sculpture
SArt25: Painting I
SArt27: Printmaking I
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
Theater16: History of Early Modern Theater and Drama
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
WS23: French Women- Artists and Writers
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
