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Course description

What is the role of learning and education in museums today? How do museums develop educational activities and policies for the audience participation that has emerged as so critical to contemporary museums? How can learning in museums be inclusive? This course expands on, and responds to, these questions enabling students to develop a knowledge of current approaches to, and research about, educational outreach in museums. The course is structured around four fields that shape museum learning; arts learning, cultural learning, digital learning, and arts and wellbeing. The course uses critical analysis of multi-modal case studies and key scholarship in the subject, and aims for a balance of theory and practice through a series of workshops and practicals culminating in student group presentation of museum learning project proposals. The course is delivered in partnership with the Learning Department of Queensland's state art gallery, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA). Students will learn about key audience education strategies and the development of programs in museum learning through the Australian industry leading Learning department of one of the premier art galleries in Australia. Students will be required to attend workshops at QAGOMA in South Brisbane. This course will be capped at a maximum of 20 enrolments, and has a minimum quota of 12 students.

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