Objects and Methods

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• critically analyse examples and case studies relevant to contemporary curating

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate accurate and effective academic research and communication skills.

Disciplinary Specific Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• demonstrate an understanding of contexts and juxtapositions between objects in a variety of contexts

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• critical engagement with key ideas in contemporary curating through creative practice

• Understanding Material Culture
• Objects and memory
• Cultures, cultural products and collections in the contexts of equality, diversity and inclusion?
• How objects can be used to create narratives both about objects and broader cultural and social contexts
• The three-exhibit exhibition
• Practical display techniques
• Label and text writing
• Issues and ethics of Collection, Storage and Display
• Collecting policies in public and private collections
• Accessibility, Handling and Conservation
• Communicating ideas about objects and their contexts to various and diverse audiences
• Consideration of sustainable futures for objects and curating practices
• Ethical considerations in curatorial practices

• Lectures
• Individual and group presentations
• Peer group learning
• Group work
• Reflective writing
• Practical workshops (in elements of display, such as issues of safety, conservation, hanging, planning, lighting)
• Visits to collections and exhibitions
• Supervised handling sessions within special collections
• Independent research

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Reflective Learning Log

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback:
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No
• Percentage contribution: 100%

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.