Handbook home
Conservation Assessment and Treatment 2 (CUMC90005)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
Please refer to the return to campus page for more information on these delivery modes and students who can enrol in each mode based on their location.
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | April |
---|---|
Fees | Look up fees |
Students undertake more complex assessment, documentation and conservation treatment of artefacts across different material types within an ethical and sustainable decision making framework. Areas of study covered depend on the cultural and heritage collections but are likely to include methods of examination, documentation and digitisation, cleaning, surface coatings, consolidation, structural repairs, filling and loss compensation, inpainting and conservation project work. This unit may include individual or group projects in either the conservation laboratory at the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation with in situ work in the field, or off campus conservation treatments.
During the pre-teaching period students are expected to participate in a 1 hour online orientation forum in the first week of the pre-teaching period on the Wednesday, engage with the online lectures, complete the course readings, quizzes and any other course preparation as outlined in the LMS. The LMS will be available at the commencement of the pre-teaching period.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this subject students should be able to:
- assess and document in detail the condition and appropriate treatment for different cultural and heritage artefacts, their contexts and values;
- identify mechanisms of deterioration and critically propose and undertake treatment of a variety of conservation problems;
- demonstrate sound, independent, critical ethical and sustainable decision making skills in a professional conservation laboratory, institutional and in situ context;
- undertake group and individual conservation treatments and develop project management skills;
- present written, oral and new media reports to a professional standard and to broad audiences.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Students must meet one of the following prerequisite options:
Option 1
Admission into the 200pt Program course entry point in the MC-CULMC Master of Cultural Materials Conservation
AND
Completion of a minimum of 100 credit points of study
AND
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CUMC90030 | Conservation Assessment and Treatment 1 | November (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Option 2
Admission into the 150pt Program course entry point in the MC-CULMC Master of Cultural Materials Conservation
AND
Completion of a minimum of 50 credit points of study
AND
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
---|---|---|---|
CUMC90030 | Conservation Assessment and Treatment 1 | November (Dual-Delivery - Parkville) |
12.5 |
Option 3
Admission into the 100pt Program course entry point in the MC-CULMC Master of Cultural Materials Conservation
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
---|---|---|
A written report
| Week 1 | 10% |
An oral presentation due in the last week of the teaching period (10 minutes)
| During the teaching period | 10% |
Conservation treatment reports and practical treatments
| Three weeks after the teaching period | 25% |
A media presentation
| Four weeks after the teaching period | 10% |
Conservation treatment reports and practical treatments
| Four weeks after the teaching period | 45% |
Hurdle requirement: Hurdle requirement: Students are required to attend a minimum of 80% of classes in order to pass this subject. Students must pass all assessment tasks to pass this subject and engage with the pre-teaching material prior to the teaching period. | Pre-teaching, teaching and assessment period | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- April
Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Total time commitment 340 hours Pre teaching start date 15 March 2021 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period students are expected to complete the course readings, review the lectures and any other course preparation as outlined on the LMS. The LMS will become available at the commencement of the pre-teaching dates. Teaching period 7 April 2021 to 7 May 2021 Last self-enrol date 19 March 2021 Census date 23 April 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 7 May 2021 Assessment period ends 28 May 2021
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Online readings, prescribed texts and pre-teaching tasks will be made available in the pre-teaching period.
Our cultural materials conservation library guide includes links to key texts https://unimelb.libguides.com/cmc#s-lg-page-section-6627052
Recommended texts and other resources
Additional texts may be recommended.
- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Subject coordinator approval required
Last updated: 3 November 2022