BA Curatorial Studies

Bachelor's degree

In Colchester

£ 9,250 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Colchester

  • Duration

    3 Years

About the course
Are you interested in becoming an exhibition curator or working in other areas of gallery management? Our BA Curatorial Studies can provide you with the intellectual and practical skills you need to realise your career ambitions, combining classroom-based learning with hands-on experience in museums and galleries


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Within the classroom, you gain an overview of major developments in art history – something essential for any budding curator

You will also learn about the history and theory of exhibition design, with a particular emphasis on how curatorial choices shape our experiences while viewing artworks and the other objects on display in museums and galleries


The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), Europe’s largest collection of Latin American art, will offer you a place to experiment with installing artworks

Besides getting your feet wet with the more tactical aspects of installing art, these experiences will open your eyes to how curatorial decisions transform the kinds of stories that artworks tell when displayed alongside others


Frequent, staff-led visits to London museums and galleries will also expose you to the latest developments in curating, and you will be strongly encouraged to conduct a placement in order to gain exposure to the inner workings of a museum, auction house or gallery

Facilities

Location

Start date

Colchester (Essex)
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Wivenhoe Park, CO4 3SQ

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Latin
  • Teaching
  • Exhibition
  • Art

Course programme

Example structure
Studying at Essex is about discovering yourself, so your course combines compulsory and optional modules to make sure you gain key knowledge in the discipline, while having as much freedom as possible to explore your own interests. Our research-led teaching is continually evolving to address the latest challenges and breakthroughs in the field, therefore to ensure your course is as relevant and up-to-date as possible your core module structure may be subject to change.
For many of our courses you’ll have a wide range of optional modules to choose from – those listed in this example structure are just a selection of those available. The opportunity to take optional modules will depend on the number of core modules within any year of the course. In many instances, the flexibility to take optional modules increases as you progress through the course.
Our Programme Specification gives more detail about the structure available to our current first-year students, including details of all optional modules.
Year 1
Art and Ideas: I(A)
Art and Ideas: I(B)
Art, Sex and Death
Culture, Work and Society
Art Revolutions
The Enlightenment (optional)
Space, Place and Locality (optional)
Popular Film, Literature and Television: A Psychoanalytic Approach (Freud and Jung) (optional)
Year 2
Art in Latin America
Art and Ideas II: More Art, More Ideas - Critique and Historiography in the History of Art
After Impressionism: European Art From Van Gogh to Klimt
Collect, Curate, Display
Becoming Modern: European Art From Futurism to Surrealism
Study Trip Abroad (Year 2) (optional)
Reworking the Past (optional)
Inventing the Future: Early Contemporary 1945-1980 (optional)
Photography in History (optional)
Final year
Inventing the Future: Early Contemporary 1945-1980
The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Film, New Media, Software and the Internet
Contemporary Art: 1980 to the Present
Art, the Law and the Market
Study Trip Abroad (Final Year) (optional)
Curatorial Project
Year abroad
On your year abroad, you have the opportunity to experience other cultures and languages, to broaden your degree socially and academically, and to demonstrate to employers that you are mature, adaptable, and organised. The rest of your course remains identical to the three-year degree.
Teaching
Close examination of texts written by artists, critics, art historians and philosophers
Subsidised gallery visits to work ‘in situ’ for each course
Gain practical experience in curating, such as handling and installing artworks
Teaching takes the form of lectures and seminar sessions or discussion classes
Assessment
Assessment methods include coursework, for example essays, analysis of source material, exhibition reviews and virtual portfolios, coursework reports, oral presentations
Written examinations are also taken for the majority of modules at the end of each academic year
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Additional information

To ensure you are prepared to meet the challenges facing curators in the 21st century, opportunities to cultivate digital skills will be available throughout the course For example, for your final project, you will curate an online exhibition, for which you will produce a virtual walk-through of the exhibition space and develop digitally-accessible interpretative material for all objects on display Essex is the ideal choice for a BA in curatorial studies Our Art History programme is ranked 6th among UK art history departments for research excellence (REF 2014) and we are one of the few leading art history programmes that offers an undergraduate course specialising in curating You will also be taught by our expert staff in your very first year—another rarity in UK art history courses Study abroad Our BA in curatorial studies offers you the chance to choose from a variety of study abroad options The four-year version of our degree allows you to spend the third year studying abroad without paying a fee, while otherwise remaining identical to the three-year course Studying abroad allows you to experience other cultures and languages, to broaden your degree socially and academically, and to demonstrate to employers that you are mature, adaptable and organised We have established partnerships across Europe, the United States, Latin America and Asia, including with world-renowned institutions such as: École du Louvre in France University of Freiburg in Germany University of Bologna in Italy Many of our partnerships are subject to language requirements and are recommended for students on joint degrees with languages Even if you don’t have (or don't want to study) another language though, there are plenty of Anglophone destinations Our expert staff Our staff consists of a dynamic group of art historians While our research interests span a range of cultures and media, from the early modern to the present, core specialties include...

BA Curatorial Studies

£ 9,250 + VAT