The Museum and Its Meanings
Module: Cultural analysis -identity and innovation-
Matter: Art, cultural heritage, and experience
Main language of instruction: Catalan
Head instructor
Dra. Marta CRISPÍ - mcrispi@uic.es
Office hours
Office hours will take place on Thursday from 9:00 to 10:00h
Throughout this subject we will carry out an analysis of museums and their roles in the context of today's society. Museums have evolved from institutions that preserve and exhibit works -collection containers - into centres where disclosure plays an increasingly important role among their activities. In this context, each museum's mission defines its position considering the nature of their collections and the goals of the museum. Also, we will draw a panorama of the museum and provide students with the tools to develop critical thinking.
No pre-course requirements are needed to enrol in this subject, other than those of being a student of Humanities, having interest and concern for tangible and intangible heritage and rate heritage as a cultural expression as well as eagerness to learn and dissiminate heritage
- Know, identify and think about the role of museums in contemporary society.
- Identify and evaluate the elements of cultural heritage and, in particular, the museum collections.
- Understand the functions and tasks carried out by the officers of museums.
- Awareness of the legal framework of museums as well as the administrative structure in which public museums are integrated.
- Identify the discourse and museographic resources of permanent and temporary exhibitions.
- Analyse the diffusion activities of museums and reflect on their suitability in terms of public.
Students will have acquired the following learning outcomes
- Awareness of the issues and problems of the current cultural debate on museology and museum.
- Ability to use ICT skills to develop studies and work around museological functions.
- Present the results of research in accordance with the criteria of museology and museums.
- Read and write texts in one's own language and in others, transcribe and translate information on issues of museology.
- Define issues of cultural research that can contribute to the innovation and improvement of society.
- Relates concepts on heritage, territory and cultural identity.
- Know and express arguments on museology with order and coherence in both oral and written form.
- Analyse and synthesise texts on museology and communicative effectiveness of a temporary or permanent exhibition.
- Be critical and self-critical with one's work and with the museum production.
- Works independently, with organisation and planning.
- Have ethical and social commitment, respect for other cultures and sensitivity to the environment.
- Be creative, have initiative and entrepreneurship.
- Have skills in the use of ICT in the organisation and management of information.
The classes combine the theoretical analysis with the review of cases, texts and presentations of museums. They will encourage reflection and critical analysis of the exhibiting and dissimination of museums and heritage institutions based on visits and assignments.
Important:
1. In this subject it is very inportant to make proper use of the language in written tests, papers and oral presentations, both from the point of view of grammar and spelling, and punctuation and wording. To make the proper use of terms specific to the discipline has a special relevance.
The criteria to be followed before any of these errors is as follows: the grade will be lowered by 0.25 for misspelling or incorrect words in essays and exams.
2 Plagiarism is taking the ideas written by another person and presenting them as if they were one's ideas, without citing the author. Plagiarism (the term comes from the Latin word for 'kidnapping') is misleading and dishonest. Examples of plagiarism: copying, paraphrasing or summarizing someone's words without properly citing the source and without the quotation marks are necessary when an appointment is made literal.
To avoid plagiarism, you must cite the source whenever ideas written by another person are used and although the quotation is not literal, paraphrase or summarize someone else's ideas. In the literal or direct quotations quotation marks must be used and cite the source. In an academic work, it is not sufficient to state generally the literature used, but one must explicitly mention the source where these ideas written by someone else.
Plagiarism in written work of this course is unacceptable and, therefore, any work in which plagiarism is committed will be evaluated with a zero.
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