Course units
Unit 1: Introduction to curatorial practices, concepts and collections
This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University.
You’ll broaden your knowledge of key issues in the curatorial field and think about curating as a means of reinterpreting objects and practices. You’ll gain hands-on experience of curating, through practice-based approaches to learning. Your communication skills will be developed through written work, curatorial displays and oral presentations.
Unit 2: Methodology and techniques
This unit will deepen your practice through engagement with collections research alongside curatorial activity.
You’ll establish connections with curatorial networks to help you progress your research interests. By looking at curatorial contexts, you’ll gain a critical perspective on institutional practices. You’ll evaluate curatorial methods used to reinterpret objects and practices. You’ll also plan and implement a collections-based display.
Unit 3: Synthesis: Conference project and self-directed study
In this unit you will reflect upon current curatorial practice and develop your own professional practice through the organisation of a conference.
You’ll be able to articulate your own position in respect of key curatorial debates and analyse curatorial methods used to reinterpret objects and practices. You’ll develop a critical understanding of work that challenges existing practice. As part of the postgraduate show, you’ll plan and implement an exhibition.
Note: 120 Credits must be passed before the final unit is undertaken.
