This module focusses on the basics of infrastructure as a complex system, giving priority to the interdependencies across infrastructure, and how these links...

Introduction to Complex Infrastructure Systems (CEGE0120)

The Choral Conducting, Leadership and Communication module is intended for musicians who wish to engage in conducting and directing choral activity in schools...

Choral Conducting, Leadership and Communication (CCME0088)

The Choral Conducting, Leadership and Communication module is intended for musicians who wish to engage in conducting and directing choral activity in schools or the community. It identifies areas for development in participants' professional practice and their theoretical understanding of choral conducting; and it explores ways forward for effective conducting, leadership and communication. The module provides a critical introduction to and development of choral conducting skills, concentrating specifically on the dynamic relationship between research and practice in the field. The module offers students the opportunity to engage in conducting workshops, to reflect on their professional practices, and to review research and theory. It is delivered in a mixed mode with face-to-face seminars as well as through a VLE.

Anthropology|Education|Heritage Studies|Material and Visual Culture|Museum Studies

EDUCATION|CRITICAL HERITAGE|MUSEUMS &amp; GALLERIES|HERITAGE SITES

This module explores the learning and teaching opportunities that take place in spaces typically defined as cultural places. As the boundaries between formal...

Constructing and Interpreting Heritage Culture (CCME0067)

This module explores the learning and teaching opportunities that take place in spaces typically defined as cultural places. As the boundaries between formal and informal learning blur, alternative sites for learning such as heritage sites (including gardens, zoos and the eco-museum via geo-tourism) have extended their educational remit beyond the pamphlet or guide-book. This module explores and critically appraises the educational potential and social role of these sites within a social justice education context. Students will be required to critique received views of heritage, culture and history within an increasingly global context and to offer an alternative perspective on heritage, museum and gallery learning, develop a critical understanding of the social contribution the heritage industry can make to building new cultures and communities, establish the need for criticality in relation to learning and teaching in informal educational sites, understand the structures and ideologies that sustain heritage culture within the global context. Students not enrolled on the MA Museums and Galleries in Education or MA Art Education, Culture and Practice programmes MUST contact the module tutor in the first instance before selecting on Portico.