Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
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Study Details: MLitt: 12 months full-time
This one-year masters programme aims to engage with varied modes of contemporary curatorial practice, be they collections, archives, contemporary art or relational and performative practices. The programme has an outward-looking focus, through which the city and beyond become the platform of activity. Students will engage with live projects, ranging from collaborative to independently-led, gaining the most engaged and professionally focused experience possible.
The programme is offered jointly with the University of Glasgow, and offers links with external institutions in Glasgow, including the Centre for Contemporary Art,Glasgow International, GoMA, Tramway, The Common Guild, Transmission and the Hunterian Museum.
This programme offers students an exciting opportunity to study curatorial practice in the heart of Glasgow, a city that in recent years has become one of the top European cities for contemporary art, host of the Turner Prize 2015, birthplace and home of an array of worldleading contemporary artists and gallerists
A good Undergraduate Degree in a relevant subject (normally 2:1 or higher – although a lower classification may be considered where other areas of the application are strong) or equivalent professional experience.
Candidates will undertake an interview before selection.
IELTS 6.5 overall (with 5.5 or above in each component).
Scotland/EU/UK: £5,760. Interantional: £13,534
http://www.gsa.ac.uk/life/fees,-funding-finance/postgraduate-funding/
The programme offers a 1-year Masters qualification aimed at those graduates wishing to develop a curatorial career within the field of contemporary visual arts. The programme is structured to enable and support students to pursue independent and self-directed working, and to lay the practical, intellectual and professional foundations for their future approach to curatorial roles or contexts. At the same time the programme provides them with access to highly-regarded and experienced professional curators and practitioners, and it will enable them to acquire key skill sets and attributes as well as forge the peer networks that are vital to the profession at all levels.
Courses
Stage 1:
• Curatorial Practice 1 (40 credits)
• Core Research Skills (20 credits)
Stage 2:
• Curatorial Practice 2 (45 credits)
• Postgraduate taught elective (15/20 credits)
Stage 3 (selection of one of the following):
• Masters Project in Curatorial Practice 1 (60 credits)
• Masters Project in Curatorial Practice 2 (60 credits)
• Dissertation (60 Credits)
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