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Catalogues, copyright, and off-campus digital access—London collections practice, not a conservator licence.
Online or on campus
Collections fail in undocumented rights, bit-rot, and reading-room rules that assume everyone can reach London. This MA starts with dual-pathway access as an ethical problem: what can be digitised, what must stay restricted, and how a tuition-free online student gets a lawful surrogate. Scottish archives, independent museums, and university special collections appear as management cases. Faculty mark whether you can write an access policy that a donor, a data-protection officer, and a community group can all interrogate. The award is not ARA registration and not a conservation ticket. Capstones use anonymised or public collections projects with honest rights statements. Haverton University sits in London, a city of reading rooms and festivals that can treat collections as scenery. This MA refuses that. You will write an access policy a donor, a data-protection officer, and a community group can interrogate, including Gaelic and Scots interpretation where it is actually used. Identity-checked assessment and library-parity rules apply to campus and online alike. No National Library or National Records logos as if the university were those institutions. Festival-season loan traffic is a collections problem, not a marketing opportunity. MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections is taught as one award, not a list of unrelated modules. The published length is 18 months, and the credit total is 36. Students move from Museums and Archives as Public Trusts through Museums and Archives as Public Trusts; Appraisal, Disposal, and Community Claim; Catalogues, Authorities, and Backlog Politics; Digitisation Workflows and Surrogate Quality; Copyright, Orphans, and Licence Reality; Personal Data in Archives, and finish on Writing for Trustees and Depositors. Each course has a question, a method, and a submission. In this field, students apply the method of the subject to a defined problem and defend the result. Reading is a core text, a case or dataset, and a critique. The artefact a marker expects is a submission that shows the method, the evidence, and the limit of the claim. The award is built so that a graduate can do the following in practice: Write access and rights policies that survive donor and legal scrutiny Specify digital-preservation actions without claiming conservator status Design dual-pathway user access with licence honesty Teaching assumes the student can read a source, attempt a problem before the seminar, and revise after feedback. Attendance at live seminars is part of the design. The capstone or final course must use the methods of the earlier courses; a project that ignores them does not pass. The pages for each course name the topics that are examined. Those topics are the syllabus. A brochure line is not a substitute for them.
Thirty-six credits: collections governance, digital preservation and rights, user access including dual pathway, and a supervised capstone. No national-library logos.
Study online
Online tuition is free. Online examinations and certificates are 100% free and sponsored.
On-campus study
Prefer to learn at our London campus? Campus tuition is published on each programme page. All examinations are 100% free of charge.
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| UOB841 | Museums and Archives as Public Trusts Museums and Archives as Public Trusts (UOB841) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB842 | Appraisal, Disposal, and Community Claim Appraisal, Disposal, and Community Claim (UOB842) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB843 | Catalogues, Authorities, and Backlog Politics Catalogues, Authorities, and Backlog Politics (UOB843) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| Code | Course | Credits · hours |
|---|---|---|
| UOB845 | Digitisation Workflows and Surrogate Quality Digitisation Workflows and Surrogate Quality (UOB845) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB846 | Copyright, Orphans, and Licence Reality Copyright, Orphans, and Licence Reality (UOB846) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB847 | Personal Data in Archives Personal Data in Archives (UOB847) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
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| UOB849 | Reading Rooms and Remote Researchers Reading Rooms and Remote Researchers (UOB849) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB850 | Off-Campus Licences and What Vendors Forbid Off-Campus Licences and What Vendors Forbid (UOB850) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB851 | Exhibition, Festival, and Online Interpretation Exhibition, Festival, and Online Interpretation (UOB851) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
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| UOB853 | British Collections Landscape Literacy British Collections Landscape Literacy (UOB853) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB854 | Research Methods for Collections Practice Research Methods for Collections Practice (UOB854) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
| UOB855 | Writing for Trustees and Depositors Writing for Trustees and Depositors (UOB855) is a course on MA Museum, Archive and Digital Collections. It carries 15 credits and 150 notional learning hours, at 10 hours per credit. The course is taught at master's level. Students compare a weaker method, judge the evidence, and state what the result does not show. The chapters are the syllabus. Each chapter is a class of work this course assesses. Preparation is the reading, dataset, or case for that chapter. Seminar time is spent on the decision, the calculation, or the draft. The student revises after feedback. A pass requires the method named in the chapters, evidence a marker can check, and a stated limit on what the result does not show. Haverton University teaches this course on the published route for this degree.
| 15 · 150 h |
Modules are assessed through a published mix of coursework, applied projects, and examinations. Exam windows are announced in advance so students in other time zones are not forced into overnight sittings. Alternative arrangements are available where documented.
The published duration is 18 months. Teaching language: English (dual pathway: London campus or tuition-free online; one academic standard). Actual time-to-complete depends on mode and any recognised prior learning.
You may study this award fully online from your country, or — where published — on campus at Haverton. Online study does not require a student visa. Campus study may.
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