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

Competencies

Competencies are the set of knowledge, skills and attitudes to be acquired by students throughout the degree, aimed at preparing them for the exercise of professional activities.

Basic Competencies

CB6 – Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context

CB7 – That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study

CB8 – That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, although incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments

CB9 – That students know how to communicate their conclusions and the ultimate knowledge and reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way

CB10 – Students will have the learning skills to enable them to continue studying in a manner that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.

General Competencies

CG1 – Know how to define the state of knowledge in the specific fields of Art History and the ability to understand the new lines of research that contribute to its expansion with original scientific contributions.

CG2 – Adaptation to the use of various resource centers, with the ability to apply the most appropriate historiographical methods for the study of new problems or the review of issues of art historiography from other points of view, with the eventual assistance of other humanistic disciplines

CG3 – Know good practices in scientific research and professional practice, respecting democratic values, human diversity, equality between men and women, and multiculturalism

CG4 – Ability to synthesize, mastery of the writing and conceptualization processes in the discipline of Art History that contribute to the preparation of technical and elaboration products for cultural management and research in Art History.

CG5 – Ability to observe, describe and interpret at an advanced level the physical characteristics and the language of the forms of a work of art, a fundamental source of research in the discipline and the ability to catalogue the artistic work in accordance with the methods and standards of the discipline.

Specific Competencies

CE1 – Understand the major recent changes in arts research.

CE2 – Ability to elaborate with rigor and critical sense, based on acquired knowledge, brief reports or essays on a specific fact or content of the History of Art

CE3 – Know the dissemination channels, magazines and electronic media that disseminate art and know how to compile documentation that highlights its critical and analytical aspects in terms of cultural management and research methodologies in art theory and history.

CE4 – Know the major articulations of Art History and be able to establish the relationship between the issues raised by the arts and the tasks of research and cultural management.

CE5 – Know how to synthesize, know how to summarize, know how to make the dossier of an interview with an author, or an artist, equivalent to an interpretive study for management or research purposes

CE6 – Know how to construct a reflection on an artist’s work and articulate it in a theoretical investigation.

CE7 – Be able to analyze the iconography and plastic structure of works of art and know how to place them in their historical context, with an orientation aimed at the independent work of students in relation to management activities and research methodologies.

CE8 – Master the conception and creation of professional working methods in art history in aspects of cultural management and research methodologies: inventory sheet, catalogue sheet, documentary dossier, valuation report, appraisal.

CE9 – Be able to define your own projects.

CE10 – Have experience in the interpretation of creative resources in numerous artistic media (painting, sculpture, mass media, video, new technologies, etc.) and be able to master their main parameters with a view to transmitting them through personal expression.

CE11 – Organize, install, and present an exhibition in its dimension as a speculative proposal in cultural management and a research project in methodologies of art theory and history

CE12 – Ability to program cultural projects and develop their content in a context aimed at the continuous updating of methodological approaches in the different areas of Art History.

CE13 – Know how to clearly write a research report, master the written language for diversified cultural applications of a informative, technical or artistic nature in relation to the arts.

CE14 – Know how to access databases, websites, libraries, archives, and other information resources to conduct research and to configure elaborate results from incomplete or limited information.

CE15 – Know how to orally present a communication in public and know how to conceive a supporting visual document, slideshow, video, etc. with contents specific to the dissemination of cultural management and the communication of research contents in methodologies of art theory and history.

CE16 – Master the basic electronic resources to draft and prepare a report, consisting of the results of a cultural management project or a proposal for research methodologies in art theory and history.