Eric...I usually quite enjoy your insightful (sometimes sarcastic) remarks, but you have really missed the boat on your response to the "non-professional" request for information. First, the term indoctrination is an unfortunate one to use for any profession. A sense of professionalism with fine basic skills and academic background is hardly indoctrination. There are MANY professional museum training programs, perhaps with varying degrees of quality. But there are a good number of them with very high standards established by the Museum Studies Committee of the AAM. While there is no formal accreditation process for museum training (the AAM Council has never approved one), standards and criteria have been formulated and published by the Museum Studies Committee, now a standing committee of the AAM called the Committee for Museum Professional Development. Most training programs abide by these, and use the curriculum suggested, with some variations. The unified perspective that has been evolving in the museum field is one of a sense of professionalism, standards without standardization. Your "in-house" humor about courses to take is amusing for the veterans among us, but not much help for the interested students out there. Ed Pershey has some very good suggestions, Joy Davis too, and I would add that courses in communications skills (verbal and writing) should be required. Both financial and human resources management are at the top e must not forget about keeping a sense of humor...not taught in the MBA programs that I know of. Keep them laughing, Eric, but get the facts, please. Jane