Education in Museums and Heritage (Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters)

In semester 1 students gain an overview of Museum Education in Glasgow. In semester 2 at the University of Tartu or University College Cork (UCC) / National University of Ireland (NUIG) / Trinity College Dublin (TCD).

Between semesters 2 and 3, students will have the option to attend a summer school with the European Museum Academy and the Universidad Iberoamericana. The courses that are studied during the summer school are non-credit bearing but students will be able to undertake internships as part of the summer mobility period.

In semester 3 students have the choice of two thematic Study Tracks between the University of Malta or Radboud University in the Netherlands. There are also placement options at Malta and field trips at Radboud.

The fourth and final semester destination, when the dissertation is being written, will be chosen by the student depending on where they wish to be based for research/ supervision purposes.

Teaching will be via lectures and small group seminars utilising a wealth of theoretical and methodological approaches drawn from the humanities and social sciences. Assignments and coursework include individual and group presentations, structured debates, simulation exercises and role play, reflective logs, fieldwork and study trips. Language courses in all major European languages are available with each mobility partner over the two years of the programme.

Year 1: Semester 1 (60 SCQF) 

University of Glasgow – Museum Education

• Access & inclusion
• Critical enquiry (research methodology)
• Museums, education and curriculum development
• The museum as a source of learning

Year 1: Semester 2 (60 SCQF)

University of Tartu - Intangible Cultural Heritage

• Cultural heritage, social memory and museums
• Heritage and cultural policies
• Methods of data collection and analysis
• Principles of entrepreneurship
• Vernacular expressions and analytic categories

UCC / NUIG / TCD - Digital Cultures and Humanities

• Digital Tools and Methods I
• Digital Tools and Methods II
• Digital Learning & Knowledge Creation
• Curation and Storytelling in the Digital Age
• Teaching & Learning in Digital Humanities
• Humanities and New Technologies

Summer Mobility at the European Museum Academy with the option to extend to Universidad Iberoamericana.

Year 2: Semester 3 (60 SCQF)

University of Malta - Museum and Heritage Education

• Contested heritage: conflict, mediation
• Culture and community
• Education and community museums
• ME and cultural politics
• Representation, access and difference

Year 2: Semester 3 (60 SCQF)

Radboud University - Arts and Culture

• Art history
• Creative industries
• Tourism and culture

Year 2: Semester 4 (60 SCQF)

• Research dissertation

Programme alteration or discontinuation
The University of Glasgow endeavours to run all programmes as advertised. In exceptional circumstances, however, the University may withdraw or alter a programme. For more information, please see: Student contract.

Mobility refers to periods of study or research undertaken during the two years of the programme and can be broken down as follows:

1st mobility 

Year 1, semester 1 at the University of Glasgow

2nd mobility

Year 1, semester 2 at University of Tartu

3rd mobility

Year 2, semester 1 at University of Malta or Radboud University 

4th mobility

Students choose the location where they wish to complete their research.

Additional

Between semesters 2 and 3, students will have the option to attend a summer school with the European Museum Academy and the Universidad Iberoamericana. The courses that are studied during the summer school are non-credit bearing but students will be able to undertake internships as part of the summer mobility period.

Programme alteration or discontinuation
The University of Glasgow endeavours to run all programmes as advertised. In exceptional circumstances, however, the University may withdraw or alter a programme. For more information, please see: Student contract.

The Consortium Management Board will have overall responsibility for safeguarding the common standards and mechanisms for the examination of students (European and Third Country).

Each of the course components of the International Master programme has its own form of assessment. These are outlined in the individual course handbooks. In order to calculate the final mark achieved the marks for each component are weighted according to their credit rating. 

In year 1 a candidate will be permitted to progress to Dissertation only if s/he has obtained an average aggregation score of 12 (equivalent to Grade C3) or above in the taught courses described above, with at least 75% of the credits at a score of 9 or better (Grade D3 or better) and all credits at a score of 3 or above (Grade F or above). 

Each joint partner university will take responsibility for marking according to its own criteria. Each partner university will provide assessment marks as they stand to the Consortium’s Board of Examiners, along with detailed additional descriptors, for the Board of Examiners to translate to University of Glasgow, the given partner university and the ECTS grading systems to facilitate the production of the joint degree transcript and diploma supplement issued by the consortium.

All examination results will be discussed and finalised by the Board of Examiners and formally approved by the Consortium Management Board. The marking systems for each partner university and how these relate the University of Glasgow and ECTS systems will be made clear to students in advance.

The joint degree will have its own external examiner who will be represented on the Board of Examiners.