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Northampton, University of, MA, Curatorial Studies

University of Northampton
 United Kingdom

 

Study mode Start date Duration
Full-time Oct years: 1
Part-time Oct years: 0 - 2
In this course students learn the practical skills required to work in museums and galleries through lectures, demonstrations and hands-on experience (an extended work placement is compulsory); students study and debate current issues in the cultural heritage sector; these might include ethical issues: approaches to history; the rights of the public; aesthetic issues (curatorial intervention), artists as curators; political issues (the illegal acquisition of objects); and the non representation of minorities in museums; students visit local and national museums and galleries to assess and evaluate installations; students plan, develop and install a public exhibition for the final major project.

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Northampton is in the centre of England, within an hour’s travel from Birmingham, London and Oxford. The university comprises two green campuses within 6.5 km of Northampton town centre. Main line trains and motorway system are close-by, free bus service is available between campuses. The university has two sites: Park Campus at Kingsthorpe, a northern suburb, and Avenue Campus just north of the town centre and opposite a large open park known as the Racecourse. Avenue Campus was from 1924 the site of a college of technology that became part of the university.