Curating History

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• British art history from 1600 to the present.
• Changing concepts of the self.
• Consider how visual media are used to represent selfhood.
• Reflect on contemporary attitudes towards self-fashioning, identifying how social media has evolved from earlier technologies of representation.

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Gather a range of historical images, identifying the stylistic and other design features, tropes and patterns which help art historians attribute and date individual works of art.
• Draw connections between traditional art history and social history.

Indicative topics include:

the history of British art

exploring the City Art Gallery's holdings

selecting an exhibition theme

researching an artwork

label writing

exhibition "hangs"

Lectures.

"Looking through drawing" in City Art Gallery

Tour of City Art Gallery exhibition.

Visits to City Art Gallery collection store.

Museum label-writing workshop.

Group work on exhibition planning.

Independent reading and research for essays.

Individual consultations with module convenor.

Presentations.

Formative

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

Written assignment

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Via individual consultation.
• 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.