DPT: Collections and Curating Practices (MSc by Research)

Please note that programme structure and course availability is subject to change.

Before selecting your outside courses, please ensure you have met your Programme Director.

Please note that not all option courses may be available due to scheduling or limited places.

Compulsory courses

Guided Research Placement

Must be taken during Full Year

Collections: Theories, Practices and Methods

Must be taken during Full Year

MSc by Research in History of Art Dissertation

Must be passed at 50% and taken during Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond

Course options

Supervised Research in History of Art 1

The following courses are NOT available to students studying on this programme, despite appearing on the list of courses:

History of Art Work Placement (Level 11)
Research, Theories and Methods
The Cultures and Politics of Display

Finalised list of course options will be confirmed at a later date.

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 1

Art and Sexuality in Renaissance Italy

Theorising Contemporary Art

Art and Society in the Contemporary World: China

Scottish Art Since the 1960s: Practice and Debate

Picturing Authority: Art and Politics at the Tudor and Stuart Courts

Art and Cultural Exchange in Mughal India 1500-1900

Utopia Zones: Modernism and Abstraction

Art and Digital Culture

Inequality in the arts: Understanding the production and consumption of culture.

Verdant Landscapes: Early Modern Land Imaginaries

Women Artists and Surrealism

Charlatans and Connoisseurs: the development of the modern art market from Gambart to Kahnweiler (Level 11)

From Versailles to Napoleon III: Visualising the Cost of Luxury, 1682-1873

AND

Selected courses must be taken during Semester 2

Impressionism and the Third Republic, Culture, Politics and Social Change, 1865-1900

Expanding the Book: Image and Literacy in Valois France

The Celtic Question : Art in early Britain and Ireland

The Aesthetics of Difference: Post-Colonial Perspectives from the 19th to the 21st century

Around 900: The Early Islamic West in a Global Context

Art for the Afterlife: Buddhist Relics in Asian Material Culture

Chinese Ink Art in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

The Modern Art Museum (Level 11)

Wartime: Military encounters in British art from the Seven Years' War (1756-63) to the Battle of Waterloo (1815) [L11]

Archives of Dissent, Repertoires of Resistance: Photography and Civil Rights

Images, Politics and the Contemporary African Public Sphere

Course selections made beyond the Collections & Curatorial Practices (MScR) recommended option courses must first be approved by your Programme Director.

THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH

DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2023/2024

Timetable information in the Course Catalogue may be subject to change.

Degree Programme Table: Collections and Curating Practices (MSc by Research) - 1 Year (Full-time) (PRMSCCOCUP1F)

Year 1 Academic year: 2023/24, Starting in: September

Compulsory courses

Course options

Supervised Research in History of Art 1

CCP Electives Sem 1

CCP Electives Sem 2

Level 11 courses in Schedules A to Q, T and W