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Sustainable Collections (CUMC90029)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
May
Email: nicoleat@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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This subject critically evaluates current theories, international standards and processes for sustaining heritage collections, managing change and creating sustainable environments. It engages with sustainable thinking within situated decision-making contexts and values, technical processes, risk management strategies, the ten agents of deterioration, the environment, and stakeholder structures. It examines continuity and change, and considers how these can be effectively communicated and mitigated in centralised and de-centralised collection contexts.
As such, this subject lays a critical foundation for effective professional practice as a preventive conservation conservator and steward for sustainable collection care. Off campus site visits are a regular activity for this subject, which may include visits to collection and conservation facilities, museums, galleries, library, archives and art centres.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this subject students should be able to:
- Develop the theoretical and practical foundations for sustaining collections, preventive conservation, managing change and creating sustainable environments
- Identify the critical sustainability issues and management strategies for heritage collection environments including the ten agents of deterioration, risk assessments, standards and guidelines, and people-centred decision making
- Develop the cognitive and analytical, technical and affective skills that underpin innovation in sustaining heritage collections
- Investigate and apply advanced knowledge and skills in situated collection contexts
- Demonstrate a critical understanding of the environmental, economic, social and cultural factors related to heritage collections with the cognitive, technical and affective skills necessary to communicate information in professional and community based contexts
- Understand the array of participatory, intercultural, and interactive strategies for sustaining collections in situated contexts, their potential and limitations
Generic skills
- Linking theory and practice
- Critical decision making drawn from a diverse range of sources
- Technical conservation methods and skills
- Sustainable management and organisational skills for complex collection environments
- Adaptive and creative approaches through the application of skills and knowledge to collection contexts
- Effective communication and written skills
- Collaboration and interdisciplinary work
- Social and inter-cultural competency.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into or selection of one of the following:
- MC-CULMC Master of Cultural Materials Conservation
- Principles of Cultural Materials Conservation specialisation (formal) in the GCA-ARTS Graduate Certificate in Arts (Advanced)
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
CUMC40004 Preventive Conservation
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Presentation (Group Project, Individually Assessed, 10 minutes)
| End of the teaching period | 10% |
Written report (Group Project & Group Assessed)
| 2 Weeks after the end of teaching | 20% |
Group participation (Individually assessed)
| 2 Weeks after the end of teaching | 10% |
Research essay investigating sustainability and collection care
| 4 Weeks after the end of teaching | 60% |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend 100% of seminars in order to pass this subject. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | During the assessment period | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- May
Principal coordinator Nicole Tse Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 38 hours - 13 x 1 hour lectures, 10 x 1 hour seminars, 15 x 1 hour practicals Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 22 April 2024 Pre teaching requirements During the pre-teaching period students are expected to complete the course readings, review the lectures and any other preparation as outlined in the LMS, which will be available at the commencement of the pre-teaching period. Teaching period 13 May 2024 to 24 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 26 April 2024 Census date 17 May 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 24 May 2024 Assessment period ends 14 June 2024 May contact information
Email: nicoleat@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
170 hours
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
A subject reader will be available in the pre-teaching period with access to the readings online.
Recommended texts and other resources
Staniforth, S (ed) 2013 Historical perspectives on preventive conservation, Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles, UniM Bail High Use 069.53 HIST
Elkin, L & Norris, C (eds) 2019 Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, New York.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Urban and Cultural Heritage Specialisation (formal) Principles of Cultural Materials Conservation - Links to additional information
Last updated: 31 January 2024