MA Curating Science

Year 1

(Award available for year: Master of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- Evaluate current issues and research relating to curation, interpretation and the public communication of science, technology and medicine.
- Demonstrate ability to critically engage with complex theoretical and conceptual understandings of the histories and philosophies of science and museum studies
- Apply theoretical and conceptual understanding to practice-led projects of public engagement, specifically through curation and events;
- Take a proactive and self-reflective role in working and to develop professional relationships with others;
- Proactively to formulate ideas, to evaluate these and to develop them into projects that can be delivered;
- Initiate, develop and carry out research projects.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire the following abilities as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- The skills necessary to undertake employment in a higher capacity professional practice;
- The ability to considering ethical and political dimensions of their work and the skills to actively reflect on your own decision making.
- The capacity for self-direction and effective decision making in live interpretative projects.
- The commitment to critically engage in the challenge to, and development of, professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the programme and will involve the achievement of the students in:
- Understanding, and ability to put into practice, the principles of interpretation and curation;
- Able to take on difficult bodies of knowledge, draw out key issues and interpret them for a wider audience;
- Demonstrating the ability to apply theoretical and conceptual ideas to practical issues and problems;
- Drawing effectively on a range of perspectives on an area of study;
- Develop well reasoned and evidence positons on complex issues;
- Able to work with others and to reflect on processes of collaboration