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Last updated: 4 March 2022
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SQM617
Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
Online independent and collaborative learning activities equivalent to 1-hour per week, and 4 x 1-hour scheduled seminars per trimester.
Topic 1: Histories of Display: The role and function of Exhibitions
Topic 2. Exhibitions as a form of communication
Topic 3. Mission, Vision and policies
Topic 4. Developing an exhibition brief
Topic 5. Exhibition project management
Topic 6. Audience Involvement and collaboration
Topic 7. Working with exhibition designers
Topic 8. Something to see, read and do: Interpretation and Public Programs
Topic 9. The run up to opening day: Fabrication, installation, travelling exhibitions and marketing
Topic 10. Looking back: Audience Studies
Understand the needs and interests of visitors to museum exhibitions
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO4: Critical thinking
GLO8: Global citizenship
Describe the range and use of different types of exhibits
GLO2: Communication
Discuss the variety of exhibit elements and display techniques such as labelling, lighting, design and multimedia
GLO3: Digital literacy
Develop communication objectives, ideas and themes for museum exhibitions
GLO5: Problem solving
Develop an exhibition proposal
Appreciate how to frame a budget and develop a timeline for an exhibition project
Appreciate how to apply communication models and learning theories to label writing
Reflect on the impact language use on exhibition audiences
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: AIM727 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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