Artefacts as an Educational Resource
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Artefacts as an Educational Resource
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Course Code: MMAMGE_05
Masters Level Module
In this module you will visit specialist museums and galleries and through a series of lectures, seminars and workshops investigate how artefacts give shape and meaning to our relationship with the world, our everyday lives, histories and cultures. Through this you will question how societies and cultural values are represented, from Enlightenment debates on the relevance of cabinets of curiosity, to the dilemmas affecting contemporary curatorial and interpretative practices. You will also study the hierarchies of art, craft and design with reference to trans-cultural and trans-historical values. Through the discussion and handling of artefacts, y…
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Course Code: MMAMGE_05
Masters Level Module
In this module you will visit specialist museums and galleries and through a series of lectures, seminars and workshops investigate how artefacts give shape and meaning to our relationship with the world, our everyday lives, histories and cultures. Through this you will question how societies and cultural values are represented, from Enlightenment debates on the relevance of cabinets of curiosity, to the dilemmas affecting contemporary curatorial and interpretative practices. You will also study the hierarchies of art, craft and design with reference to trans-cultural and trans-historical values. Through the discussion and handling of artefacts, you will establish some of the lexical and taxonomic difficulties of classifications. Assessment takes the form of a 5,000 words assignment.
This module is held on Wednesdays and whole days in half-term week.
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