ARTH 403 Hacking the Museum Units: 3.00
This project-based seminar explores the interface of digital technologies, museums, and cultural heritage interpretation. Students build practical knowledge and theoretical understandings around technology, audience interpretation and knowledge creation.
Learning Hours: 126 (36 Seminar, 90 Private Study)
Requirements: Prerequisite Level 4 or above and registration in an ARTH Major or Joint Honours Plan and a minimum of 24.0 units in ARTH and a cumulative GPA of 1.90 or higher.
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Amalgamate research and practice in the area of heritage/museum interpretation and digital technologies.
- Build interpersonal capacities through group-oriented goals and outputs.
- Build knowledge in the area of digital technologies and heritage/museum interpretation.
- Enhance problem solving capacities through assignments and projects that build self-directed, creative thinking skills.
- Strengthen the student's ability to respond, through written and verbal communication, to emerging problems and issues at the junction of museums and the digital world.