2018/19 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
PGDip Curating Science
Programme code: | PGD-AH/CUR-F | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Helen Graham | Contact address: | h.graham@leeds.ac.uk |
Total credits: 125
Entry requirements:
IELTS 6.5 overall, with no less than 6.0 in all components.
School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies
Programme specification:
Enable students to develop an independent academic and curatorial practice at the intersection of histories, philosophies and social studies of science, science communication and museum studies.
Underpinning the programme is an exploration of the political and ethical dimensions of interpretation and representation. Students will both explore how to understand and engage people with urgent issues facing the world, issues which are often epistemically disputed, from climate change to cancer.
In a core strand of the programme, students will take a questioning orientation to the nature of 'expertise' and 'knowledge' through tracing the histories of the disciplinary distinctions drawn between arts and science. Students will engage with key philosophical interventions that have destabilised these distinctions as well as innovative and cutting-edge art-science practices that are reimagining ways of knowing and being in 21st Century. Alongside this, students will be encouraged to develop innovative practices of dialogic and participative engagement, developing their own ways of convening and shaping citizen and public spaces for debate and for constructing new knowledges and understandings.
Students will undertake a wide range of active learning activities from developing and delivering displays, programmes and events to developing digital content and designing their own research projects. Students will be supported throughout by an interdisciplinary academic staff team drawn from fine art, museum and curatorial studies and the histories, philosophies and social studies of science as well as professionals from our partner institutions.
Students will have the option of undertaking a negotiated placement with a museum or heritage organisation and will consequently have the opportunity to put into practice, and reflect more deeply on, the theoretical underpinnings of both the history of science, technology and medicine and museum studies.
Year1 - View timetable
[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]
Compulsory modules:
Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules
ARTF5101M | Advanced Research Skills 1 | 5 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF5253M | Interpretations | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
ARTF5254M | Critical Issues | 15 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) | |
HPSC5601M | History & Theory of Modern Science Communication | 30 credits | Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) |
Optional modules:
Candidates will be required to study 60 credits from the following optional modules:
ARTF5011M | Jewish Museums and the Display of Cultural Difference | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5051M | Intersecting Practices: Questioning the Intersection of Contemporary Art and Heritage | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5069M | Art & Money: the modern and contemporary art markets | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5071M | Encountering Things: Art and Entanglement in Anglo-Saxon England | 30 credits | Not running in 201819 | |
ARTF5191M | Anthropology, Art and Representation | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5193M | Humanity, Animality and Globality | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5802M | Placements in Context: Policy, Organizations and Practice | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC5150M | Historical Skills and Practices | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC5800M | The Origin of Modern Medicine (Birth of the Clinic) | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
PECI5211M | Audience Engagement and Impact | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) |
This is an indicative list and optional modules may change each year depending on staff availability.
Last updated: 29/03/2018
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