PGCert Curating Science
Year 1
(Award available for year: Postgraduate Certificate)
Learning outcomes
- 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;- to apply theoretical and conceptual understand 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;
Transferable (key) skills
- the skills necessary to undertake employment in a higher capacity professional practice;- the ability to consider 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
- 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;