Admission requirements
Admission to the MA Arts and Culture: Museum Studies / Art History, research master Arts, Literature and Media.
Students of the Humanities faculty who are interested and who are not enrolled in the Master Arts and Culture should contact the education coordinator in order to enroll. NB: This is only possible in case there are available spots.
Description
In Core Course II, students will learn to think and write about urgent societal debates and their impact on art historical and curatorial practices: decolonialization, environmental issues, gender & sexuality, and migration. Some of these themes stand in relation to issues discussed in Core Course II, reflecting the core curriculum of the Art History and Museum Studies specializations in the MA Arts & Culture.
The first part of this course introduces the art historical and museological discourses on these current issues, providing students with relevant theoretical and methodological frameworks. In the second part of this course, students will work in groups to develop a visual exhibition proposal related to one of these themes. These proposals will be presented to the whole group.
Guest speaker(s) and an excursion will make up the remainder of the course.
Course objectives
Students will:
acquire insights into current curatorial and art historical debates practices, and position oneself in relation to these;
develop skills in oral presentation while defending viewpoints and arguments;
collaboratively research a topical issue, developing skills in collaboration central to how the modern museum functions
present an individually written analytical scholarly paper related to the current debates and practices;
Timetable
The timetables are available through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Excursion
Seminar
Attendance is compulsory. Students are allowed to miss a maximum of two seminars, provided they present a valid reason beforehand. Students who have missed more than two seminars will have to aply to the Examination Board of the MA Arts and Culture in order to obtain permission to further follow and complete the course.
Assessment method
Assessment
Active participation in class and in the group project; presentation of the group project (30%)
Research paper of 4000 words (incl. footnotes) (70%)
Weighing
The final grade for the course is established by determining the weighted average. To pass the course, the weighted average of the partial grades must be 5.5 or higher. Papers with a grade lower than 5.0 should be rewritten and handed in as resit.
Resit
The re-sit can consist of one or two parts: there is a re-sit for the paper (75%) and/or an alternative assignment for the duo presentation (25%).
Inspection and feedback
How and when an exam review will take place will be disclosed together with the publication of the exam results at the latest. If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will have to be organized.
Reading list
To be announced on Brightspace.
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website
Registration À la carte education, Contract teaching and Exchange
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of À la carte education (without taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
Information for those interested in taking this course in context of Contract teaching (with taking examinations), eg. about costs, registration and conditions.
For the registration of exchange students contact Humanities International Office.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the right information bar.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Arsenaal.
Remarks
Not applicable.