Ranked #2 by the Eduniversal Worldwide Best Masters Ranking in Cultural Management/Creative Industries Management, the Master Program in Culture Studies is aimed at students from the Humanities and Social Sciences, but not exclusively, interested in a structured discussion of cultural phenomena in the global world.
The MA in Culture Studies is organized around a core course of theory and practice-based seminars. Each seminar provides a broad scope for interdisciplinary interaction through the interplay between disciplines ranging across the fields of Cultural Studies, Literary and Artistic Studies, Performance, Translation, Media and Visual Studies as well as Cultural Management.
The MA in Culture Studies takes into direct consideration the ever-increasing value that the arts and culture offer to the understanding and the identity of nations and individuals, as well as the importance of the creative economy in an era marked by globalization, flux and rapid cultural dissemination.
Based upon an innovative training model and collaborative effort between academic and cultural institutions, the program operates through epistemological reciprocity, demonstrating how cultural practices illuminate critical reflection.
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 take a research seminar each semester to monitor their progress.
The program is entirely taught in English.
SPECIALIZATIONS (2023/2024):
Management of the Arts and Culture
CURRICULUM 2022-2023
Management of the Arts and Culture
- 1st semester:
- Methods and Objects in Cultural Research (Diana Gonçalves)
- Academic Writing/Secondment (Joana Moura/Luísa Santos)
- Arts Management in the Digital Age (Ana Fabíola Maurício)
- Curatorial Practices (Luísa Santos)
- Elective I
- 2nd semester:
- Metaculture (Adriana Martins)
- Academic Writing/Secondment (Sara Eckerson/Luísa Santos)
- Summer School
- Entrepreneurial Project (Frederico Fezas Vital)
- Elective II
- 3rd semester:
- Research Seminar I (Ana Margarida Abrantes)
- Writing Lab I
- Dissertation/Project/Report
- 4th semester:
- Research Seminar II (Peter Hanenberg)
- Writing Lab II
- Dissertation/Project/Report
- 1st semester:
- Methods and Objects in Cultural Research (Diana Gonçalves)
- Academic Writing/Secondment (Joana Moura/Luísa Santos)
- The Global Contemporary: Genealogies and Fractures (Luísa Leal de Faria)
- Politics of the Visual (Ilios Willemars)
- Electives I
- 2nd semester:
- Metaculture (Adriana Martins)
- Academic Writing/Secondment (Sara Eckerson/Luísa Santos)
- Summer School
- Ecocultures (Diana Gonçalves)
- Elective II
- 3rd semester:
- Research Seminar I (Ana Margarida Abrantes)
- Writing Lab I
- Dissertation/Project/Report
- 4th semester:
- Research Seminar II (Peter Hanenberg)
- Writing Lab II
- Dissertation/Project/Report
SPECIALIZATIONS (until 2022-2023):
a. Management of the Arts and Culture
b. Performance and Creativity
c. Literary Cultures
The applications 2024-2025 are open:
Early Bird: January 15 to February 26
1st phase: February 27 to April 8
2nd phase: April 9 to May 30
More information available here.
Contact for more information: mastersfch@ucp.pt
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