Heritage Education and Interpretation: programme outline
MA:12 months full-time; 24 months part-time (180 credits)
Postgraduate Diploma: 9 months full-time; 18 months part-time (120 credits)
Masters of Heritage Practice: 24 months full-time; 48 months part-time (260 credits)
Modules are also available on a Continuing Professional Development (CPD) basis
These programmes are intended to prepare students for work in the heritage sector, as well as to help students acquire the knowledge and skills required for progression to research degrees.
Programme Structure
The full-time programme begins with the compulsory modules Issues and Ideas, Management and Communication and Interpretation. These modules offer you an important opportunity to develop your awareness of the workings of the museum, gallery and heritage sector as a whole and the common concerns and interests across it. While you will rub shoulders with students from other programmes, you will also engage in programme-specific seminars in which we will consider the particular ways in which the sector-wide issues relate to heritage work.
You then proceed to take two compulsory specialised modules, Heritage Education and Interpretation 1 and Heritage Education and Interpretation 2.
After the specialised modules, you undertake an 8-week Work Placement in a heritage site or organisation. This in turn is followed by the Dissertation assignment (MA and MPrac students only), in which you will produce a 12,000-15,000-word dissertation on an aspect of heritage studies to be agreed with your supervisor.
MA/PgDip full-time study (12 months) |
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Title |
Code |
Semester |
Credit |
ICS8001 |
1 |
20 |
|
ICS8002 |
1 |
20 |
|
ICS8003 |
1 |
20 |
|
| ICS8015 | 1&2 |
20 | |
| ICS8035 | 2 |
20 | |
| ICS8036 | 2 |
20 | |
| Dissertation |
ICS8099 | 1-3 |
60 |
MPrac full-time study (24 months) |
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Year 1 |
Year 2 |
Students follow the MA schedule |
Heritage work-based Placement |
Programme delivery and assessment
All modules in these programme are delivered through lectures, seminars, practicals and study visits. Specialised modules include hands-on practical sessions, and project work, usually in the form of family educational activities in a museum or a heritage site. You also will have many opportunities to have discussions with professionals in your field.
Assessments in these programmes include essay and report writing, presentations, group-work based projects and self-reflective statements.
Are you interested in applying?
Information about entrance requirements, tuition fees and funding opportunities for these programmes is available on our How to Apply section.