Exploring the Past: Museums, Memory and Material Culture

Learning Outcomes

• This course will enable each participant to:
  
• Consider how the study of material domains can assist our understanding about what it means to be human within the diversity of culture.
  
• Discuss a range of ways in which the past is used by states and civil societies, and how these are related to questions of politics and power.
  
• Compare and contrast the social life of things, using particular examples drawn from the topics covered in the course.
  
• Critically reflect on the nature of knowledge and norms, including indigenous models, in a personal learning journal.
  
• Complete a review that applies frameworks and ideas developed in the course to the study of a particular museum exhibition.
  
• Critically assess the biographies of local statuary, their current locations, and how their meanings have changed over time.
  
• Contribute effectively in group and co-operative work.
  
• Develop an appreciation for applied anthropology and public history.

University Graduate Attributes

This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attributes specified below:

	Critically competent in a core academic discipline of their award Students know and can critically evaluate and, where applicable, apply this knowledge to topics/issues within their majoring subject.
	Employable, innovative and enterprising Students will develop key skills and attributes sought by employers that can be used in a range of applications.
	Biculturally competent and confident Students will be aware of and understand the nature of biculturalism in Aotearoa New Zealand, and its relevance to their area of study and/or their degree.
	Engaged with the community Students will have observed and understood a culture within a community by reflecting on their own performance and experiences within that community.
	Globally aware Students will comprehend the influence of global conditions on their discipline and will be competent in engaging with global and multi-cultural contexts.

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Equivalent Courses

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .