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Art History and Museum Curating at University of Sussex - UCAS

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2023 - 20242024 - 2025
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Course summary

Gain the skills to join the exciting world of museums, galleries and the cultural heritage sector. You’ll work with academics who have relationships with museums across the UK, and direct experience of curating exhibitions and permanent collections in the museums and galleries sector. You’ll gain invaluable museum experience working in close contact with museum staff – and in a team of curating students – to address a live issue for a specific museum. Between February and the end of June, you’ll get the opportunity to work on some of the pressing issues facing museums today. In previous years, museums have included projects relating to:

  • disability and access
  • Black Lives Matter
  • queer heritage and erotic art
  • narratives engaging with the repatriation of museum objects.
The participating museums are:
  • Charleston
  • Ditchling Museum of Art and Craft
  • the British Museum
  • the Towner Eastbourne.
In class, you’ll explore the history, theory and politics of art institutions and build a critical framework for the practice of curating. And you’ll also visit museums in Sussex and London. This allows you to learn first-hand about institutional histories, collections, permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions. Core modules Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most. Art History Research Seminar Art History Research Skills and Methods Critical Issues in Art History and Curating Museum Skills I: Objects Art History Research Skills and Methods Museum Skills II: Contexts and Display Professional Experience and Dissertation Options Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. Careers You gain knowledge about objects and collections, and develop a critical awareness of museum practices. You develop communication and project management skills. These skills provide the practical and theoretical foundation for careers in: museums galleries heritage at curatorial level the cultural sector more broadly. Entry requirements You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.

Modules

We regularly review our modules to incorporate student feedback, staff expertise, as well as the latest research and teaching methodology. We’re planning to run these modules in the academic year 2023/24. However, there may be changes to these modules in response to COVID-19, staff availability, student demand or updates to our curriculum. We’ll make sure to let our applicants know of material changes to modules at the earliest opportunity. Core modules Core modules are taken by all students on the course. They give you a solid grounding in your chosen subject and prepare you to explore the topics that interest you most.

  • Art History Research Seminar
  • Art History Research Skills and Methods
  • Critical Issues in Art History and Curating
  • Museum Skills I: Objects
  • Art History Research Skills and Methods
  • Museum Skills II: Contexts and Display
  • Professional Experience and Dissertation
Options Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests. This list gives you a flavour of our options, which are kept under review and may change, for example in response to student feedback or the latest research. While it’s our aim for students to take their preferred combinations of options, this can’t be guaranteed and will be subject to timetabling. Options may be grouped and if so, students will be able to choose a set number of options from the selection available in any particular group.
  • Art's Queer Stories
  • Entangled Histories: Art and the Medieval Mediterranean
  • Instrumental Aesthetics: Contemporary Art, Politics and Visual Culture
  • Living and Dying in the Premodern World
  • Race, Photography and Archives
- Race, Photography, Archives

Entry requirements

Degree requirements: You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above. Subject-specific requirements: Your qualification should be in art history or another relevant humanities or social sciences subject. You may also be considered for the course if you have other professional qualifications or experience of equivalent standing. For more information about our entry requirements and English language requirements, please visit our website.

Fees and funding

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Art History and Museum Curating at University of Sussex - UCAS