PGDip Curating Science

Year 1

(Award available for year: Postgraduate Diploma)

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;
- proactively to formulate ideas, to evaluate these and to develop them into projects that can be delivered;

Transferable (key) skills

- 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

- 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;
- have an understanding of how arts, cultural and heritage organisations operated, the policy and funding contexts and what this means for practical decision-making.