Applications now open for 2016-2017 ( February intakes)

Application Guidelines

Ranked #3 by the Eduniversal Worldwide Best Masters Ranking in Arts and Cultural Management, the Master Program in Culture Studies is aimed at graduate degree holders from the Humanities and Social Sciences, interested in a structured discussion of cultural phenomena in the global world.

This 2-year program has three specializations and is organized around a core course of theory and practice-based seminars. The first year is curricular and requires the completion of 60 ECTS. The second year is dedicated to the final assignment: dissertation, project, or internship. During the second year students also have to take a research seminar each semester to monitor their progression.

Please choose one specialization upon application.

The program is entirely taught in English.

SPECIALIZATIONS:

a. Management of the Arts and Culture

First Semester (30 ECTS)

Metaculture

Methods for Cultural Analysis

Cultural Economics

Grad Labs

  • Academic English
  • Managing Bibliographies
  • Database Research
  • Publishing Strategies
  • Career Development

Elective 1

Second Semester (30 ECTS)

Culture and Globalization

Culture, Production and Creativity

Cultural Entrepreneurship

Management of Cultural Projects

Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

3rd and 4th Semesters

Research Colloquium I and II

Dissertation/Project/Internship

 

b. Performance and Creativity

First Semester

Metaculture

Methods for Cultural Analysis

Cognition and Creativity

Grad Labs

  • Academic English
  • Managing Bibliographies
  • Database Research
  • Publishing Strategies
  • Career Development

Elective course 1

Second Semester

Contemporary Culture and the Environment

Performance and Performativity

Visual Culture

Cultural Entrepreneurship

Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

3rd and 4th Semesters

Research Colloquium I and II

Dissertation/Project/Internship

c. Literary Cultures

First Semester

Metaculture

Methods for Cultural Analysis

Narrative and Culture

World Literature

Grad Labs

  • Academic English
  • Managing Bibliographies
  • Database Research
  • Publishing Strategies
  • Career Development

Second Semester

Discourse & Identity

Culture and Literary Mediation

Cultural Entrepreneurship

Elective Course 1

Lisbon Summer School for the Study of Culture

3rd and 4th Semesters

Research Colloquium I and II

Dissertation/Project/Internship

Elective courses:

Choose from any course in the MA in Culture Studies or other MA Degrees at the School of Human Sciences.

Courses in Culture Studies are always taught in English. Courses offered by other Departments are mostly offered in Portuguese

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