BA Art Gallery and Museum Studies

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to demonstrate:

- an understanding of the ways in which identities are constructed and contested through engagements with culture, and in particular through museums, galleries and heritage.
- an understanding of the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge.
- an ability to evaluate and draw upon the range of sources and the conceptual frameworks appropriate to research in the chosen area, with particular application to the dissertation..
- an ability to draw upon and bring together ideas from different sources of knowledge and from different academic disciplines.
- an ability to effectively communicate and critically reflect upon information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.
- an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the discipline.
- an ability to work autonomously within a structured environment.
- awareness of and an engagement with professional contexts of museums, galleries and heritage.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the art galleries, museums and heritage sector;
- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;
- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;
- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;
- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature related to the art gallery, museum and heritage sector

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:

- demonstrating the ability top apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline;
- work that draws on a wide variety of material;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;
- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.