策展文化硕士

策展文化硕士课程提供了一个无与伦比的机会来探索亚洲和非洲艺术策展的方法和途径，并培养该领域的实用策展技能。

它特别适合那些希望在艺术领域或文化产业发展的人，无论是在博物馆、画廊、节日、在线平台、双年展还是其他展示环境中。它还将吸引这些领域有兴趣加强知识和批判性观点的执业专业人士。

涉及的主题和问题包括但不限于：策展和展览的历史和意识形态、收藏理论、解释物品、关于后现代主义、后殖民主义、回归和非殖民化的当代问题和辩论、展览文本的策展和写作和解释。

此外，策展文化硕士课程为有兴趣在亚洲和非洲策展和/或艺术史/考古学领域攻读博士学位的学生提供了良好的研究生基础。

该硕士课程的目的和目标是让学生：

• 培养批判性评估博物馆、画廊、展览空间、公共艺术、在线平台/数字策展和其他展示环境的解释框架的能力
• 通过收集、展示、解释和保护实践，批判性地分析博物馆和画廊在创造物品意义和价值方面的作用
• 研究亚洲和非洲文化和物品从各自传统和欧洲角度呈现的方法、实践和关键问题，特别关注非殖民化
• 加深对策展理论和实践的理解
• 深入了解学生选择学习的亚洲和非洲艺术和/或考古学的特定领域，如模块选择所示

Why study Curating Cultures at SOAS?

• SOAS is ranked 6th in the UK for employability (QS World University Rankings 2023).
• We are ranked 15th in the UK for Arts and Humanities (QS World University Rankings 2023).
• The Department of the History of Art and Archaeology has world leading experts in Asian and African art history and archaeology, including experienced curators who draw on this expertise in their teaching and research.
• We partner with the British Council to offer a School of Arts student one fully funded residency at the annual Venice Architecture Biennale.
• We partner with the Museum Rietberg, Zurich to offer a number of School of Arts students fully funded internships.
• You will have the opportunity to co-curate your own exhibition showcase in the Wolfson Gallery of the SOAS Library using the SOAS Teaching Collection.
• The programme gives access to some of the world’s best museums, incorporates fieldtrips, and provides workshops and lectures by industry insiders such as curators, museum directors and restitution experts.

Teaching consists of a combination of lectures and seminars. Classes are normally between two and three hours per week for each course. Teaching methods include lectures with discussion, seminars (at which students present papers) and museum visits. Students at all levels are expected to take an active part in class presentations. A particularly important element is the training of the student's visual memory.

In addition to their studies on the MA programme, students at SOAS can participate in a wide range of research seminars, lectures and conferences that regularly take place in the School and in the University of London.

Contact hours

All Masters programmes consist of 180 credits, made up of taught modules of 30 or 15 credits, taught over 10 or 20 weeks, and a dissertation of 60 credits. The programme structure shows which modules are compulsory and which optional.

As a rough guide, 1 credit equals approximately 10 hours of work. Most of this will be independent study, including reading and research, preparing coursework, revising for examinations and so on. It will also include class time, which may include lectures, seminars and other classes. Some subjects, such as learning a language, have more class time than others. At SOAS, most postgraduate modules have a one hour lecture and a one hour seminar every week, but this does vary.

Assessment

For each of the three taught modules, the student will be expected to submit two or three pieces of written work usually around 3,000 to 4,500 words – for a total of 9,000 words per modules. The emphasis is on developing essay skills during the session in preparation for the dissertation. In some courses the assessment is 100% on written work.

On other modules, assessed course work forms 75% of the student’s final grade and an additional 25% is determined by slide quizzes, projects or other forms of assessment. The 10,000 word dissertation is submitted in September.

Learning resources

SOAS Library is one of the world's most important academic libraries for the study of Africa, Asia and the Middle East, attracting scholars from all over the world. The Library houses over 1.2 million volumes, together with significant archival holdings, special collections and a growing network of electronic resources.

Students in the School of Arts develop a ​​critical and theoretically informed approach to global arts and culture. In addition to an intercultural awareness and practical expertise, graduates gain a wide portfolio of transferable skills which are especially sought after in the creative and cultural industries.

Recent School of Arts graduates have been hired by:

• Christie’s
• Christine Park Gallery
• Crisis
• Design Museum
• Hong Kong Museum Of Art
• India Foundation For The Arts
• Japanese Gallery
• Museum of East Asian Art
• Music in Detention
• National Gallery
• Pan Arts
• People Projects Culture & Change
• Roundhouse Trust
• Somerset House Trust
• Songlines Magazine
• Sotheby's
• South Asian Art UK
• Stratford Circus Arts Centre
• Taiwan Embassy
• The Alliance for Global Education
• The British Embassy
• The National Museum Of Korea
• The Royal Collection
• Victoria and Albert Museum

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