The Master's Degree aims to provide professional and research-based training in Theory and History of Art and Cultural Management to graduates and graduates in arts and humanities oriented to cultural management.
This Master's Degree is an adaptation of the studies contained in the doctoral program Open Scenarios: Multiculturalism in Art and Music, the last edition of which took place in the 2008-2009 academic year, and was offered as a Master's Degree under the name of Master in Advanced Studies in Theory and History of Art and Music, and Cultural Management in the 2009-2010 academic year.
• The degree has an academic orientation as a training complement to the Bachelor's degree and the current Bachelor's degree that is to be discontinued through the acquisition of professional skills complementary to the general contents of the degree in matters related to the work areas of the arts in fields linked to architecture, urban planning, figurative arts, music, history of cinema and audiovisual arts, museology and heritage management.
• The degree consists of a theoretical itinerary focused on research activities in art theory and history and another itinerary leading to specialization in cultural management. By creating both itineraries, two itineraries are guaranteed, one with a professional aspect and another that allows subsequent incorporation into research activities.
• The professional interest is oriented towards specialized training in theory and history of the arts that responds to the growing demand for cultural mediation in the arts from the perspective of relations with the public, the art market, culture as a live spectacle and the realization of exhibitions, at the local, regional, national and international level. From this perspective, the degree is oriented towards training cultural project technicians with mastery of multimedia resources, cultural mediation, project management and with knowledge of art theory and history.
• The scientific interest is based on the different areas of work inherent to the basic and applied lines of research in the arts and their contemporary interpretation, which are typical of the discipline today. It is the training framework that guarantees the necessary continuity of research in the history of the arts by the research group of the district's doctoral programme in Art History, with a history prior to the creation of the Bachelor's degree in Art History.
• Both proposed approaches are justified by the social and professional demand for the discipline of art history, which has increased in Spain and in the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands as a result of the development of the framework of competences articulated by the Constitution, the Law on Spanish Historical Heritage and the process of transfers to the Autonomous Communities. The demand for professionals in the discipline of art history has been growing in relation to research work, scientific dissemination and diffusion of historical and cultural heritage.
• Both orientations in the justification of the degree from a professional and research perspective are guaranteed by the theoretical-practical teaching content programmed, and especially, by the External Internship Plan and the Master's Final Project associated with them, whose evidence is included through the documents whose processing has been completed with the main public and some private centers of the Autonomous Community of the Canary Islands. Worthy of note are the supporting documents of Tea-Tenerife Espacio de las artes dependent on the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife, the Caam-Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno dependent on the Cabildo Insular de Gran Canaria and the La Regenta Art Center of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, dependent on the Vice-Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Government of the Canary Islands, the institutional support of the Vice-Ministry of Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands, or that expressed by Artemisa Ediciones.