MA Art History and Museum Curating  MA Art History and Museum Curating University of Sussex ../webroot/files/Institutions/cover_photo/1534153195University-of-Sussex.jpg

This MA aims to cultivate an understanding of curatorial skills relevant in a museum context and required of museum curatorial staff throughout the field. You will study with staff in collections such as the V&A, Tate, British Museum, National Maritime Museum, National Portrait Gallery, Charleston Trust and the Royal Pavilion. A Museum Curating Skills course, with seminars at Sussex and at local and national collections, is taken with a core course, Objects and Methods. In addition, the course Visual and Material Cultures focuses on the specialist expertise of a V&A curator who teaches using the V&A?s collections as a basis for study. Other courses are taught by academic faculty around specific museum collections. The programme also offers the opportunity to pursue a placement scheme with national and local institutions. You may, with the agreement of the programme convenor, take an option from another art history or humanities postgraduate programme. Assessment You are assessed by term papers and a dissertation of 20,000 words. Full-time students work on the dissertation in the third term, and part-time students in the third and sixth terms.

A first- or upper second-class undergraduate honours degree in art history or another relevant humanities or social science discipline. IELTS 6.5 overall, with not less than 6.0 in each section. Pearson Test of English (Academic) 62 overall, with at leas