BA Curating
Colchester, United Kingdom
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English
PACE
Full time
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On-Campus
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Introduction
BA Curating
Are you interested in becoming an exhibition curator or working in other areas of gallery management? Our BA Curating can provide you with the intellectual and practical skills you need to realise your career ambitions, combining classroom-based learning with hands-on experience in museums and galleries.
Within the classroom, you gain an overview of major developments in art history โ something essential for any budding curator. You will also learn about the history and theory of exhibition design, with a particular emphasis on how curatorial choices shape our experiences while viewing artworks and the other objects on display in museums and galleries.
The Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), Europeโs largest collection of Latin American art, will offer you a place to experiment with installing artworks. Besides getting your feet wet with the more tactical aspects of installing art, these experiences will open your eyes to how curatorial decisions transform the kinds of stories that artworks tell when displayed alongside others.
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Curriculum
Year 1
- Writing and Researching Art History
- Collect, Curate, Display: A Short History of the Museum
- Art and Ideas: I
- Introduction to Heritage and Museum Studies
- Career Development and Making a Difference
Year 2
- Art in Latin America
- Art and Ideas II: More Art, More Ideas - Critique and Historiography in the History of Art
- Digital Heritage and Museums
- Beyond the BA: Skills for the Next Step
Final Year
- Inventing the Future: Early Contemporary 1945-1980
- Curatorial Project
- Contemporary Art: 1980 to the Present
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Career Opportunities
The visual arts and culture industries have become an increasingly significant part of the national and international economy, and our graduates leave Essex with the skills to take advantage of this growing opportunity.
The sectors with jobs best suited for students with a BA in curating include museums, galleries and auction houses. Within these sectors, you can pursue a career in curation, museum education, programming, or sales and marketing. Our degree also equips you with foundational skills to run your own gallery, to work as a PR agent, or to work in the fields of fashion, publishing or events management.
To help our students acquire the particular skills they need to gain employment in the museum and gallery sector โ the single-most important area in which our students will seek jobs โ we offer numerous modules dedicated to the histories, theories and practices of museums, exhibitions and galleries. Additionally, we give you the chance to think creatively and proactively about life after university through our curatorial employability module.
Program delivery
BA Curating: 3 years
BA Curating (Including Year Abroad): 4 years
BA Curating (Including Placement Year): 4 years
- Close examination of texts written by artists, critics, art historians and philosophers
- Subsidised gallery visits to work โin situโ for each course
- Gain practical experience in curating, such as handling and installing artworks
- Teaching takes the form of lectures and seminar sessions or discussion classes