Master's Degree in Theory and History of Art and Cultural Management

Admission and graduation profile

Admission profile

The entry profile of the Master's Degree in Theory and History of Art and Cultural Management is aimed, preferably, at:

  • Graduates/licentiates in Art History, Music Sciences, Music Teaching, Philosophy, Philology and Fine Arts. It is also open to other graduates in related areas (such as Social Sciences, graduates or licentiates in Journalism, Pedagogy, Economics or Information Sciences) and related qualifications (Architecture).
  • Graduates from foreign universities with qualifications that are considered equivalent to those indicated in the previous point.
  • Holders of future degrees equivalent to the above.

Students from the EU or other countries of the EHEA, as well as from other places in the world, must provide an equivalent degree of the indicated qualifications, approved or homologable, complying with the regulations in force at the ULL in this regard.

The professional specialization in Art History and Cultural Management requires students to be familiar with current art and its assessment, with the debates surrounding museology, museography and cultural mediation.

It also requires mastery of the skills of collective work, written and oral expression skills, as well as a command of at least a basic level of one of the European languages, at least English.

In particular, the degree is aimed at those interested in:

–Conservation, cultural assessment and animation professions, cultural services of territorial entities, the private and associative cultural sector, exhibition curator, project manager-museum designer, conception and supervision of the production of publications.

–Design and programming of lecture series, activities and educational documents, cultural events, thematic visits and inventories.

–Jobs in public or private institutions such as museums, ecomuseums, scientific and technical cultural centres, cultural associations, cultural services and heritage departments of territorial institutions.

Graduation profile

Graduates who have chosen the research option Research Methodologies in Theory and History of Art will be trained in writing about art history, and particularly in the dissemination of the arts through the analysis of texts from different currents, the completion of writing practices, their transfer into editorial products and, eventually, their dissemination in the media.

Those who have chosen the professional option of Cultural Management will be specialized in tasks in the sector of curating, art criticism and cultural management, in its varied demand for experts in documentary making, inventory and cataloging, appraisals, technical reports, etc.

The graduate of this Master's degree will be a graduate with specialized and advanced training with professional capacity and qualification acquired through skills and results defined for the title.