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.

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

CB7 – Students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their problem-solving ability in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.

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

CB9 – Students should be able to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous manner

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

CG1 – Know how to define the state of knowledge in the specific areas 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 centres, with the ability to apply the most appropriate historiographical methods for the study of new problems or the review of art historiography issues from other points of view, with the eventual assistance of other humanistic disciplines.

CG3 – Knowing 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 processes of writing and conceptualization in the discipline of Art History that contribute to the preparation of technical and development 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 according to the methods and standards of the discipline.

CE1 – Know the major recent changes in arts research.

CE2 – Ability to prepare, with rigor and critical sense, based on acquired knowledge, brief reports or essays on a specific fact or content of art history

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

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

CE5 – Knowing 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 analyse the iconography and plastic structure of works of art and know how to place them in their historical context, with an orientation directed towards the students' independent work in relation to management activities and research methodologies.

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

CE9 – Be able to define own projects.

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

CE11 – Organize, install, present an exhibition in its dimension of speculative proposal in cultural management and 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 permanent 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 an informative, technical or artistic nature in relation to the arts.

CE14 – Know how to access databases, websites, libraries, archives and other information resources to carry out research and know how to configure results based on incomplete or limited information.

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

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