Museum Studies

Degree Structure

Introduction

All students take six 20 credit taught courses and one 60 credit piece of research. Full time students (one year) take three courses in semester one, three in semester two and undertake their 60 credit research over the summer. Part-time students (two years) take two courses in first semester of their first year and two in second semester. In the second year, students take one course in first and second semester and then conduct their 60 credit research over the summer.

Semester 1

All students take two programme wide 20 unit core courses:

• Introduction to Museology

• Research and Professional Skills

Plus one strand specific 20 unit course

Theory and Practice Strand:

• Museum Issues

History of Collecting and Collections Strand:

• Cultures of Collecting

Artefacts and Material Culture Strand:

• Material Culture in Context

Dress and Textile Histories Strand:

• Framing Dress & Textile Histories

Semester 2

Students take three strand specific 20 unit courses

Theory and Practice Strand:

• Phenomenology

• Heritage and Cultural Informatics

• 1 optional course

History of Collecting and Collections Strand

• Collecting Landscapes

• Authentic Artwork

• 1 optional course

Artefacts and Material Culture Strand

• The Process of Artefact Studies

• 2 optional courses

Dress and Textile Histories Strand:

• Making Dress & Textile Histories

• 18th-Century Dress

• 1 optional course

After the Spring Vacation masters students undertake one 60 unit option from:

• Hunterian Exhibition Research and Development Placement

• Dissertation