2021/22 Taught Postgraduate Programme Catalogue
MA Curating Science
Programme code: | MA-AH/CUR-FT | UCAS code: | |
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Duration: | 12 Months | Method of Attendance: | Full Time |
Programme manager: | Dr Liz Stainforth | Contact address: | e.m.stainforth@leeds.ac.uk |
There is a part-time variant of this programme available (programme code MA-AH/CUR-PT)
Total credits: 180
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 and Cultural Studies
Examination board through which the programme will be considered:
School of Fine Art, History of Art and 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) | |
ARTF5102M | Advanced Research Skills 2 | 5 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
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:
Students must choose one dissertation
ARTF5005M | Curating Science Dissertation | 50 credits | 1 Jan to 30 Sep | |
ARTF5999M | MA Practice-led Dissertation | 50 credits | 1 Jan to 30 Jun |
Candidates will be required to study 60 credits of optional modules in semester 2
ARTF5000M | Africa Displaying / Displaying Africa | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5011M | Jewish Museums and the Display of Cultural Difference | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5031M | Unfinished Business: Trauma, Cultural Memory and the Holocaust | 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 202122 | |
ARTF5111M | Art of the Silk Roads | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
ARTF5191M | Anthropology, Art and Representation | 30 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
ARTF5802M | Placements in Context: Policy, Organizations and Practice | 30 credits | Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) | |
HPSC5150M | Historical Skills and Practices | 30 credits | Not running in 202122 | |
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 list is indicative and may change depending on staff availability
Last updated: 30/06/2021 16:04:33
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