Master of Arts [M.A] [Art History, Collections and Curating] From University College Dublin

? Delivered by academics and practitioners from across the university and the larger Dublin community.

? Offers the opportunity to hone skills in the interpretation, critique, and analysis of works of art and architecture.

? Combines academic scholarship with an introduction to the theory and practice of curation in museums and galleries.

Careers & Employability:

Numerous graduates from the School of Art History and Cultural Policy occupy leading positions in cultural institutions in Ireland and across the world.? Its graduate programmes develop those skills essential to a wide spectrum of careers involved with the arts, visual culture and the media.? UCD graduates have occuplied directorial and curatorial positions at the National Gallery of Ireland, the Hugh Lane Gallery, the Chester Beatty Library and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, while?a UCD graduate is currently Head of Education at the Wallace Collection, London.

This course will primarily appeal to applicants with an undergraduate experience of art history, or a cognate discipline, and who wish to be introduced to the challenges and rewards of the subject at a more ambitious, research-intensive level. Our aim is to equip students with the knowledge and skill to develop their own individual enthusiasms as art historians and to extend, question, and reflect upon the critical approaches which shape the subject. The MA comprises a supervised research thesis on a subject of the student?s choice, and a series of small-group taught courses which offers advanced postgraduate academic training in the history of art, with a special focus on collections and curatorial practice. Via a stimulating mixture of thematically-linked lectures, seminars and site visits, including an international study trip to a major European city, the course is designed to make the best use of the rich art collections and research resources in Dublin and elsewhere, and to encourage an adventurous, first-hand engagement with works of art - whether in painting, sculpture, architecture, the decorative arts, photography or other visual media.?