BA (Hons) Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Course Overview
This hands-on degree immerses students in the professional practice of conserving a wide array of cultural heritage objects, from historical artifacts to fine art. The program masterfully blends scientific analysis with ethical decision-making, guided by experienced tutors and sector professionals. The journey culminates in a public exhibition of student work, showcasing the advanced practical skills developed throughout the course.
Key Program Highlights
- Extensive, hands-on experience treating real objects from museums and private collections
- Build a professional network through contact with practicing conservators and visiting experts
- Progress from simple conservation projects to complex treatments in a state-of-the-art studio
- Master conservation science, including materials analysis and advanced analytical techniques
- Showcase your work in a final-year public exhibition and develop a professional portfolio
Course Overview
This hands-on degree immerses students in the professional practice of conserving a wide array of cultural heritage objects, from historical artifacts to fine art. The program masterfully blends scientific analysis with ethical decision-making, guided by experienced tutors and sector professionals. The journey culminates in a public exhibition of student work, showcasing the advanced practical skills developed throughout the course.
Key Program Highlights
- Extensive, hands-on experience treating real objects from museums and private collections
- Build a professional network through contact with practicing conservators and visiting experts
- Progress from simple conservation projects to complex treatments in a state-of-the-art studio
- Master conservation science, including materials analysis and advanced analytical techniques
- Showcase your work in a final-year public exhibition and develop a professional portfolio
Requirements
Modules
- Applied Practical Skills
- Becoming a Professional
- Conservation Processes
- Conservation Science 1
- Conservation Theory
- Documentation techniques
- Introduction to Visual and Material Culture
- Applied Practical Conservation 2
- Conservation Science 2: Analytical Techniques
- Preventive Conservation
- Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
- Aesthetics
- Alexander the Great and his Legacy: the Hellenistic World
- Art and Power: Projecting Authority in the Renaissance World
- Britons and Romans, 100 BC-AD 450
- Classical Reception: from Medieval to Modern
- Classics in Context
- Conservation placement (full time)
- Conservation placement (part time)
- Decolonising the Past
- Digital Heritage
- Early Modern Family: Households in England c.1500-1750
- Existentialism and Phenomenology
- Experiencing and Remembering Civil War in Britain
- Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
- Gender and Sexuality in Britain 1700-1950
- Industry Placement
- Italy, a Contested Nation
- Literature and Life in Britain at Peace and War, 1914-1945
- Living and dying in the middle ages, 800-1400
- Material Histories: Objects, Interpretation, Display
- Media, Controversy and Moral Panic
- Migration in British Art, 1933 to the Present
- People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
- Philosophy of Science
- Scrambling for Africa? Cultures of Empire and Resistance in East Africa, 1850-1965
- Study at a partner institution: Conservation
- Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice
- The Arthurian Myth
- The Emperor in the Roman World
- The World of Late Antiquity, 150-750
- Women in Ancient Rome
- Applied Practical Conservation 3.1
- Applied Practical Conservation 3.2
- Applied Preventive Conservation
- Conservation exhibition
- Conservation independent study: dissertation
