Internship Why choose this course? M. Phil. in

The internship will introduce students to practical Graduates of the course will be well placed to work experience, supervised by specialists in one of pursue a multiplicity of career pathways in the Public History the partner institutions. Each student will spend one museum and cultural sector, whether as curators, day a week (or a full week at a single stretch) collection managers, education officers, or media working with a professional curator, librarian or and public relations specialists. For those already and archivist, on a pre-agreed project. Projects will vary working in these sectors it will enrich their but may include helping to prepare exhibitions knowledge and skills, stimulate lateral thinking and (research as well as set up), assisting with the act as a spur to innovation. Cultural Heritage preparation of catalogues, working on digital For all graduates of the course, there is the projects and virtual exhibitions. The internships are possibility of proceeding to a doctoral research an exciting dimension of the new relationships project in one of the thematic strands. NEW MASTERS PROGRAMME Trinity College has forged with the cultural Gradutes of this course will be able to institutions across the city through its flagship contribute innovative and creative responses to the Creative Arts, Technologies and Culture Initiative - challenge of public commemoration of contested CATC www.tcd.ie/catc/ history. They will gain an understanding of the dramatic new ways technology and the digital environment are opening up access to history through providing previously unimagined ways of interacting with materials of our past.

Entry Requirements & Applications

Applications are normally only accepted from Dissertation persons with a good honours degree in an appropriate Arts or Social Science discipline, e.g. The aim of the dissertation is to enable students to History, Classics, History of Art, Philosophy, devise, initiate and complete an original research Modern Languages and Literatures, Political project within a defined time-frame and draw on the Science, or European Studies, but professional insights, skills and knowledge acquired during their experience will also be relevant and will be taken study on the M.Phil. programme. The dissertation into account in determining eligibility. An interview will serve both developmental and scholarly may be required. purposes. Dissertations between 15,000 and 20,000 words For further information please contact: in length are due for submission by 31st August of the first year of entry for full-time students and by Professor David Dickson, Department of History, School of Histories & Humanaties 31st August of year two for part-time students. Note Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2, Ireland. Trinity College Dublin that students with a proficiency in European languages will be encouraged to exploit this in their Telephone: 00353-1-896-1020 choice of project (and/or internship). E-mail: [email protected] www.histories-humanitites.tcd.ie/postgrad.php

M.Phil. in Public History and Cultural Heritage The M. Phil. degree in Public History and Cultural Heritage is a new p rogramme that has been designed to give its students a thorough grounding in public history and to provide them with a unique preparation for the management o f cultural heritage. ‘ Public history’ and ‘cultural heritage’ are broadly defined: t he p rogramme w ill involve the study o f cultural memory, its construction, reception and loss, and o f the public status of history in modern society. I t will examine the political issues surrounding public commemoration and ‘ sites of memory’, and t he r ole of museums, galleries and the media i n shaping public perceptions of the past. And it will survey the more concrete questions i nvolved i n the conservation, presentation and communication of t he physical heritage o f past cultures, particularly where interpretation and meaning are contested. Course Outline The course has been designed t o act a s a bridge between Humanities disciplines i n the Core modules will provide a rich introduction to the Alongside t he core module, s tudents will t ake university and the p rofessional and creative fields of public history and cultural history, while a courses o n historical methodology and r esearch concerns o f cultural institutions. I t exploits the variety o f elective modules, some comparative, skills. They will also choose a number of electives diversity o f relevant r esearch expertise across t he some quite specific, w ill span the participating (which may vary from year t o year) from the disciplines i n the TCD Schools of Histories & disciplines (History, History of Art & Architecture, following options: Humanities and o f Languages, L iteratures & Classics, and European Studies). Cultural Studies, and draws on the strengths of the History, Memory and Commemoration Core Module: Trinity College L ibrary and nearby cultural 1641 institutions who a re collaborating i n the Remembering, Reminding and Forgetting: Public History, Cultural Heritage and t he Cultures, Memory and Identities in Central Europe programme. The Classics and European Identity Partnering institutions Shaping of the Past participating in teaching Curating Art in Theory and Practice and the internships This module will be team-taught with experts from Ireland: Contested Histories programme will be participating cultural i nstitutions. I t seeks to Cinema in Communist and Post-communist drawn from national introduce s tudents to t he r elationship between Eastern Europe and municipal museums, academic historical study, popular history and the Recreating the Past: Representations of the galleries and libraries activities of museums and galleries. It explores the Medieval and Early Modern on Film, and other cultural decisions underlying collection and d isplay, and Television and Radio bodies. investigates the meanings that can be attributed to Constructions of the Irish Built Environment objects.