MA Curating
Contemporary Art
This programme
is a one-year
full-time
Masters Degree
that is
specially
designed for
those wishing to
pursue a career
in the field of
curatorial
practice either
in museums,
galleries and
other cultural
organisations or
institutions,
with specific
focus on
contemporary
art.
The MA CCA is
designed for
those that may
already have a
professional
practice in this
area, such as
freelance
curators, or
those with
experience of
working in other
ways with art
who wish to move
into this
field.
Programme aims:
This new MA
provides
academic
teaching and
professional
training in the
area of
contemporary art
curatorial
practice in a
form that allows
you the freedom
to pursue your
own individual
research
interests and to
develop your own
practice as a
curator of
contemporary
art.
The course
offers you the
chance to
develop
practice-led
research and
combines
academic study,
and professional
vocational
training.
Assessment:
Throughout the
year you take
four taught
modules in the
department of
Art History &
Theory, plus the
Researching Art
History course.
You write four
essays, one for
each module,
plus other
coursework
for Researching
Art History.
For your final
assessment you
will work
throughout the
year to produce
an individual
research journal
and portfolio of
project
proposals that
will develop
ideas, issues
and themes that
you identify as
central to your
curatorial
practice.
The research
journal may
contain written
and visual
material
produced and
found by you,
such as
exhibition
reviews, book or
article reviews,
interviews with
artists or
curators, notes
or short pieces
of writing,
photographs of
art works, or
galleries,
spaces, places,
or other
cultural
material.
The portfolio
will contain a
series of
proposals for
exhibitions or
other types of
curatorial
projects. These
will describe
the proposed
projects and
detail the
context and
rationale for
each project,
plus lists of
participants and
possible venues,
with
justification
for these
choices, and
details of all
practical
matters
pertaining to
the
manifestation of
each project.
PLEASE NOTE:
there is no
expectation that
you actually
produce these
projects.
However, if you
wish to and have
the resources we
will support you
where we can.