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MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage

University of Lincoln

Institution
University of Lincoln
Level
undergraduate
Subject
MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage
Duration
4 years
Typical offer
A-level BCC, IB 29

Entry requirements

A level: BCC to BBC IB: 29 points overall.

About this course

MCon Conservation of Cultural Heritage, covering the preservation of artworks, historic buildings, and museum collections. Core topics include fieldwork, project management, historical research, ethics and professional practice, policy analysis, and design and creative practice. The course includes a 12-week conservation placement in a museum, historic house, or private workshop. The four-year Integrated Master's structure also allows transfer from the three-year BA programme.

Modules

  • Becoming a Professional
  • Conservation Techniques
  • Introduction to heritage materials
  • Introduction to Heritage Science
  • Introduction to Interventive Conservation Practice
  • Introduction to Visual and Material Culture
  • Visual Recording and Reporting
  • Analytical Techniques in Conservation
  • Applied Practical Conservation 2
  • Collections Care and Management
  • Age Of Extremes: Fascists And Dictators
  • Accessing Ordinary Lives: Interpreting and Understanding Voices from the Past, 1880 – present
  • Aesthetics
  • Alexander the Great and his Legacy: the Hellenistic World
  • Ancient Philosophy L5
  • Art and Power: Projecting Authority in the Renaissance World
  • Britons and Romans, 100 BC-AD 450
  • Classics in Context
  • Clio’s Children: How Greeks Wrote History
  • Conservation placement (full time)
  • Conservation placement (part time)
  • Decolonising the Past
  • Early Modern Family: Households in England c.1500-1750
  • Environmental Philosophy
  • Existentialism and Phenomenology
  • Fighting for Peace? Politics, Society and War in the Modern Era
  • From King Alfred to the Anarchy: Society, Politics and State-building in England, 871-1153
  • Gender and Sexuality in Britain 1700-1950
  • Industry Placement
  • Literature and Life in Britain at Peace and War, 1914-1945
  • Living and dying in the middle ages, 800-1400
  • Making and Meaning; History through Objects
  • Media, Controversy and Moral Panic
  • Migration in British Art, 1933 to the Present
  • Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Death of God
  • People on the move: migration, identity and mobility in the modern world
  • Philosophy of Science
  • Playing the Past: History and Videogames
  • Queering the Past
  • Study at a partner institution: Conservation
  • Teaching History: designing and delivering learning in theory and practice
  • The Arthurian Myth
  • The British Civil Wars: Experiencing and Remembering a Revolution
  • The Emperor in the Roman World
  • The Global Renaissance
  • The World of Late Antiquity, 150-750
  • The World of the Crusades
  • Thought Experiments
  • Vice and the Victorians: The Underbelly of Victorian Britain
  • Applied Practical Conservation 3.1
  • Applied Practical Conservation 3.2
  • Conservation exhibition
  • Conservation independent study: dissertation
  • Digital Heritage Tools and Techniques
  • Material Culture, Collections and Significance
  • Conservation in Context: Skills for Sector Readiness
  • Conservation Industry Placement Term 1
  • Critical Perspectives on Managing Cultural Heritage
  • Digitising Cultural Heritage Collections
  • Intermediate Interventive Conservation Practice
  • Investigative Techniques in Heritage