• Offered by School of Art and Design
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Course subject Art History
  • Areas of interest Art History, Museums and Collections
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Sarah Scott
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2021
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The Internship with available arts cultural institutions is a prestigious and demanding program, in which the Internship Convenor places graduate students with a sound record of academic achievement in Art History or a related field. The Internship is designed to provide the student with insights into the activities and the workings of an art museum or gallery. The specific nature of the contact work will depend on the requirements of the art museum specialist supervisor, who may include curators, registrars, research program managers and art educators and public programmers. The internship is seen as providing an opportunity for learning about the field in preparation towards an art museum career.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

  1. participate in the workings of an arts and cultural institution in co-operation with specialist staff;
  2. engage with a specified art museum project related to collection management, interpretation, time management, and exhibition development;
  3. research behind and the acquisition of an art object for an arts and cultural institution, or research towards the development of a related exhibition or public program proposal; and
  4. compile a structured report on an acquisition or related project, in which a sustained research argument is developed, and communicate their report to an audience.

Other Information

This course must be taken consecutively with ARTH8015 Art Museum Internship: Audience Development. These courses can be taken in any order. Acceptance into the course considers academic achievement and placement availability. Placements are limited.

Indicative Assessment

  1. Acquisition, Exhibition or Public Program Research Proposal, 3000 words (60) [LO 1,2,3,4]
  2. Reflective journal on activities undertaken during the internship, written up weekly for submission towards completion of the internship, 3000 words (40) [LO 1,2,3]

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Workload

130 hours of total student learning time made up from a combination of supervisor meetings, attendance at internship placement and applied research and writing. The structure and delivery of contact hours is dependent on internship placement.

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed ARTH4015.

You will need to contact the School of Art and Design to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

Prescribed Texts

This information is provided to students via WATTLE.

Preliminary Reading

In consultation with internship convenor.

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees

Student Contribution Band:
14
Unit value:
6 units

If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

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Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2021 $3630
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2021 $5580
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

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First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
2560 22 Feb 2021 01 Mar 2021 31 Mar 2021 28 May 2021 In Person View

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