History of Art and Visual Culture

This interuniversity Master’s Degree of the UV and the Universitat Jaume I is connected to the Doctoral studies in History of Art with a Quality Award and an Excellence Award. It is addressed to university graduates who are interested in orientating or improving their academic and research education in visual arts, specially, in the Valencian, Spanish and Latin-American context. It is aimed to deepen on the state of the question of the art history thought with its more recent contribution, to deepen in the comprehension of the connection between artistic phenomena and in the different fields of culture, as well as to acquire a practice knowledge of the methods and technics of research applied to History of Art.

It mainly provides research training for graduates in History of Art, History and Heritage, History, Fine Arts and Communication Studies, as well as other disciplines in the field of Humanities and Social Sciences. It is also oriented to the ambit of active professionals of art and culture, regardless of their previous university education, as long as a relationship of curricular, professional or research similarity exists within the subjects that make up this Master’s Degree.

Lectures are taught in Spanish in the classrooms of the Faculty of Geography and History (Blasco Ibáñez, 28, Av. 46010 Valencia) of the University of Valencia in evening timetable.

The Master’s Degree offers the opportunity of carrying out work placement in companies, institutions and research centres and to making contact with specialized technicians in which they apply the knowledge of History of Art.

There is the possibility of dividing the 60 credits of the Master’s Degree into two academic years, modality recommended to those students with less time availability.

Compulsory

• Research training
• Master's final project

Optional

• Analysis and interpretation of the image
• Introduction to art history
• Professional applications of artistic and historical research
• Contemporary visual culture
• Approaches and issues
• Epoch and cultures
• External internships

The programme is addressed to students from the Humanities and Social Science areas having completed undergraduate studies or a master’s degree; graduates with the following profiles will find the masters particularly interesting: History of Art, History and Heritage, History, Fine Arts, Audiovisual Communication, Humanities, Philosophy, Languages, Anthropology, Sociology, Information Sciences and Architecture. The same applies to those holding a diploma in Conservation and Restoration, Tourism, and Librarianship and Documentation.

This master's course is also offered to other graduates, especially to freelancers working in the field of culture and art, civil servants working in different public administrations (central, regional or local levels), entrepreneurs from the tourist sector, and employees working in private institutions. All of them must prove their professional experience in this area to the Master’s Academic Commission, and hold a university degree.

The Master's Academic Commission is responsible for admission on the basis of the following selection criteria:
- Qualifications: the affinity of the student’s educational profile with the master’s speciality will be considered. Having a degree in History of Art, History and Heritage, History, Audiovisual Communication and Fine Arts, and in other related studies will be taken into consideration.
- Average mark in academic records/transcript.
- Collaboration scholarships.
- Curriculum vitae (training courses, research merit, and professional experience related to the masters).
- Languages.
- Letters of recommendation.
- Previous work experience.
- Complementary education in the masters’ or doctorate study area.
- Access test. This will consist of a personal interview or a motivation letter explaining the candidate’s interest in doing the masters.

Students holding diploma studies must earn 60 compensatory credits minimum from the core subjects of the History of Art degree, to be able to total 240 ECTS (180 + 60 ECTS), which is the amount required to start postgraduate studies. Given the master’s specialisation and clear research profile, the tutor allocated to the student by the Academic Coordination Commission may recommend the student to complete some courses from the History of Art degree in order to make up for some shortcomings in certain subjects related with the master's area of knowledge.