Art History and Museum Curating with Photography MA
Master
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Master
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
1 Year
Learn to speak and write confidently about museums and curatorship, with a focus on photography, together with hands-on experience in a museum setting. You consider the future of museums and how you can contribute to it.
You visit museums in Sussex and in London, allowing you to learn first-hand about institutional histories, collections, permanent galleries and temporary exhibitions. You’re taught by Sussex tutors and external specialists. In the past, these have included senior staff from the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery, the V&A, and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
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About this course
94% of students from the Department of Art History were in work or further study six months after graduating. Recent School of History, Art History and Philosophy graduates have gone on to jobs including:
curatorial assistant, Ditchling Museum of Art + Craft
programme and participation coordinator, Photoworks
exhibition coordinator, Design Museum.
You should normally have an upper second-class (2.1) undergraduate honours degree or above.
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Subjects
- Art History
- Politics
- Staff
- Research
- Methods
- Critical
- Museum
- Instrumental Aesthetics
- Visual culture
- Material Cultures
- Photography
Course programme
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
- Placement (Art History & Museum Curating)
- Art History Research Skills and Methods
- Art History Research Skills and Methods
- Museum Skills I: Objects
- Museum Skills II: Contexts and Display
- Photography: Key Concepts
Alongside your core modules, you can choose options to broaden your horizons and tailor your course to your interests.
- Art History's Queer Stories
- Body and Society: Representing Women
- Dreams through a Lens: Surrealist Photography in Europe and North America
- Instrumental Aesthetics: Contemporary Art, Politics and Visual Culture
- Photography and 20th Century Visual Culture
- Visual and Material Cultures
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Art History and Museum Curating with Photography MA