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ARHT5000: Presenting Visual and Cultural Research
2021 unit information
This seminar for postgraduate research students in art history, film, museum and heritage studies is linked to Visual and Cultural Research Methods. In this unit students will progress their thesis research through a skills-based focus on the public presentation of their ideas. The seminars will focus on effective means of presenting visual images to an audience of academic peers, skills in oral presentation, strategies for asking questions in a public forum, how to conceptualise and chair a conference panel. Students taking this unit will present on their research topic and situate it in the context of developments in the field.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Art History |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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None |
| Assumed knowledge:
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Entry into a research programme in the Department of Art History and Museum and Heritage Studies. (Ph.D, D.Arts, M.Phil. or M.A. Research.) |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. have greater confidence to progress their thesis research supported by skills in time management, archival research etc.
- LO2. be aware of the infrastructure available to support their research into visual culture both within the University and beyond it.
- LO3. be able to more clearly articulate the place of their thesis topic within the broader field of art history and visual studies.
- LO4. have a clear sense of the professional opportunities available to them to present their postgraduate research within their discipline.
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