IM PS ArtsCurating Three-Year-Course FI 04
IM PS ArtsCurating Three-Year-Course FI 04
IM PS ArtsCurating Three-Year-Course FI 04
General Information
1. Certification attained
Istituto Marangoni certificate
Programme Information
Programme Aims:
The aim of the three-year course in Arts Curating is to educate future artistic professionals table to work in the cultural field of a given
project, supplying course participants with the tools to contextualise critical works, supported by a deep historical vision projected
to the future. The market is currently demanding for more and more cultural experts endowed with specific art competences and
prepared to work in the field of ‘interdisciplinarity’; that implies all those subjects belonging to the culture of a contemporary project,
together with the ability to translate the multitude of contemporary artistic practices.
The course aims to supply students with a historical and critical methodology to allow them to interpret and analyse works of art,
through the contextualisation and the interpretation of their languages and implicit contents.
Students learn how to communicate acquired notions and their own projects both in an academic manner (oral and written), ad-
dressing a mainstream audience, and more specifically, addressing an audience of art experts. Cultural management is useful to
identify the most suitable methods to be able to plan and manage of a cultural project in todays contemporary contexts.
Programme methods:
The programme is designed to facilitate the development of a student who will be highly employable and will allow them to in-
vestigate and develop their strengths.
The programme will present students with a variety of approaches to learning and assessment strategies that will promote intel-
lectual, imaginative, analytical and critical judgement.
It will allow students to develop understanding as well as their presentation and communication skills, which they will be able
to demonstrate in a variety of forms.
A combination of different learning and teaching methodologies are employed in order to promote reflective learning and devel-
op generic transferable skills.
Methods include:
• projects to encourage independent learning through investigation, enquiry and problem solving;
• group project to enhance interpersonal and collaborative skills;
• tutorials and group tutorials to facilitate shared experiences and best practice;
• seminars, formal lectures and workshops;
• study, trips, external projects and competitions present the students with another dimension to their leaning experience;
• guest speakers provide the students with a full, broader and real prospective to their specialist field of study.
Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their achievement of the intended learning outcomes through a variety of tests
appropriate to their field of study.
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Formative Assessment:
Formative assessment informs both teachers and students about student understanding at a point when timely adjustments
can be made. In formative assessment students could be involved in the assessment process. These formative assessment
situations will also give students an opportunity to learn to critique the work of others. Some of the instructional strategies that will
be used formatively include the following:
• criteria and goal setting: asking students to participate in establishing what should be included in criteria for success;
• self and peer assessment: With peer evaluation, students see each other as resources for understanding and checking for
quality work against previously established criteria;
• student record keeping: helps students better understand their own learning as evidenced by their classroom work. This pro-
cess of students keeping ongoing records of their work not only engages students, it also helps them, beyond a "grade," to see
where they started and the progress they are making toward the learning goal.
Summative Assessments:
These assessments are a means of gauging student learning, at a particular point in time, relative to established marking criteria.
Summative assessments > can occur during as well as at the end of each semester and concentrate on specific evidence of
student work, examples as follows:
Portfolio Assessment > is used to assess a variety of projects that have been developed throughout the course.
Practical Coursework > allows the students to demonstrate their understanding and application of practical areas of study.
Written Reports > are required is some study areas, where a clear and structured brief is provided and the students are asked
to submit work to me marked independently and anonymously by staff.
Formal Examinations > are required in some study areas.
Presentations > are used in some subjects to allow the student to develop their professional communication and presentation
skills.
Student Projects > are used when the student is required to submit work to be marked independently and anonymously.
5. Course structure
Year 1
Semester Subject Lesson Hoirs
A Style, History of Fashion and Costume 90
A History of Fashion 75
S1 Photography 45
S2 Computer graphics 50
S1 Theory and Methodology of Art History 50
A Visual Communication Design methodology 75
S1 Image phenomenology 45
S2 Interactive systems 50
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Year 2
Semester Subject Lesson Hoirs
A New Media Aesthetics 60
A History of Contemporary Art 90
S1 Anthropology of Art 30
A Art direction 112
S1 Publising Design 50
S2 Concept Planning 75
S1 Cataloguing and Archive Management 75
S2 Communication and Valorisation of museum collections 75
Year 3
Semester Subject Lesson Hoirs
S1 Economics and Art Market 45
A Museography 100
A Contemporary Museology 75
A Museology and Management of Exhibitions 75
S2 Art Management 30
S1 Visual Art Aesthetics 30
S2 Visual Art Trends 30
S1 Information for the Arts: tools and methods 50
S2 Dissertation
The Admissions Manager coordinates and supports the subject specific Programme Leader and the Director of Education in
dealing with interviews and portfolio assessments (where appropriate).
(Admission requirements are subject to change in order to comply with entry requirement regulations).
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• NPS (Net Promoter Score) Questionnaire (at the end of each academic year).
It would be desirable that students provide details of their identity when giving constructive feedback on the course and teaching
methods. There might be occasions when that is not appropriate and Istituto Marangoni recognises such exceptions. In these
instances, the programme teams and central support services will ensure that anonymity and confidentiality are respected.
In order to ‘close the feedback loop’ and to communicate any improvements resulting from participants attedance, at least once
in the academic year, programme teams relate back to participants the actions taken in response to their views.
Participants will be asked to answer to a series of questions, for example, if it was clear what they were meant to be learning if
the teaching had helped them learn effectively and if they have developed new skills or improved the existing ones.
The data will be analysed and the Programme Leader will be required to comment on:
• key strengths and issues arising from student performance;
• key strengths and issues arising from student feedback;
• actions and improvements for the next academic year.