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Art History Degree (2nd Ed. )

Modality
In-person
Branch of knowledge
Arts and Humanities
Ambit of knowledge
Historia del arte y de la expresión artística, y bellas artes.
School(s)
Faculty of Geography and History
Praza da Universidade, 1, 15703
Santiago de Compostela
881812585 (Conserxaría)
881812589 (Decanato)
zhisdeca@usc.gal
Campus
Santiago de Compostela

Art History as a scientific and humanistic discipline with the main objective of the analysis of the artistic production, its creation and reception processes, as well as its social contribution within the History of Culture. In recent years, it experienced evident disciplinary advances in related fields, such as Music History, Cinema and Audiovisual History, History, Literature, Philosophy or Geography, along with other fields such as Cultural Heritage, Museology, Gender Studies, the Audiovisual field, and advertising.
Art History constitutes an essential part of the training of scientists and professionals adhering to all the disciplines related to the knowledge of humans and their condition of cultural being.

  • Duration: 4 academic years
    RUCT code: 1500224
    ECTS Number: 240
    Seats number: 90

    Dean or center director:
    ANTONIO MIGUEZ MACHO
    antonio.miguez@usc.es

    Title coordinator:
    Montserrat Capelan Fernandez
    montserrat.capelan@usc.es

    Use languages:
    Spanish, Galician

    MECES Level: 2

    Coordinator university:
    University of Santiago de Compostela

    Partaker universities:
    University of Santiago de Compostela

    Xunta de Galicia title implantation authorization date:
    Orde do 15/07/2024 (DOG 24/07/2024)

    BOE publication date:
    17/12/2024

    Last accreditation date:
    09/07/2024

  • The study plan will be organised into four years of 60 ECTS each, resulting in 240 ECTS total to be completed by the students to complete the degree.
    · Basic training: 84
    · Compulsory: 114
    · Optional: 36
    · Final Dissertattion: 6
    o Total: 240

  • The study plan is distributed in the following modules:
    • History and geography.
    • Music.
    • History of Cinema and other Audiovisual arts.
    • Systematic and theoretical knowledge of the artistic fact.
    • Basic and applied knowledge of the artistic fact.
    • Cultural heritage
    • Knowledge of General Art History.
    • External academic internships.
    • Final Dissertation.
    The 240 credits are distributed in 4 courses of 60 credits divided into 2 semesters.
    In 3rd and 4th years the offer of optional subjects is distributed. Specifically, in the second semester of 3rd year, the optional completion of External Internships is contemplated.
    The 4th year is made up of compulsory and optional subjects and the 6 credits of the compulsory Final Dissertation.

  • En términos académicos y científicos, con la renovación del grado que ahora se propone se intentan alcanzar cuatro objetivos:
    a) Incorporar a la historia del arte, la música y el cine que ya contaban con amplia tradición en los estudios existentes hasta la fecha en la Universidad de Santiago nuevos contenidos como la fotografía, lo audiovisual, lo digital, las estéticas de la vida cotidiana, las manifestaciones vinculadas con la cultura material y con la historia del diseño y la moda, de acuerdo con las tendencias internacionales que, al amparo de unos estudios visuales y culturales más horizontales, intentan superar la exclusiva orientación de la Historia del Arte del siglo pasado hacia los discursos temporales y estilísticos, a los contenidos de los Museos de Bellas Artes y el arte y la arquitectura más institucionales y académicas.
    b) Abrir el grado a un mundo global aprovechando la situación estratégica de Galicia en el Atlántico con su orientación hacia América, pero también la de España hacia el Mediterráneo.
    c) Mejorar el conjunto de conocimientos sistemáticos y básicos fomentando los saberes transversales y equiparándolo al del resto de los estudios de Historia del arte del Estado Español y de otros países europeos. Se trata de ofertar una formación teórico-crítica sólida con una integración del local en un relato internacional un poco menos eurocéntrico.
    d) Insistir en aspectos referidos a las prácticas y al mundo profesional.

  • Mobility

    Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programmes are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programmes (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):
    https://www.usc.gal/gl/servizos/area/internacional
    Specific information sessions are held for the Faculty's students dedicated to the mobility programs coinciding with the calls: an information session on the Erasmus program with the presence of the Academic Manager of Mobility and the Centre Manager in the month of December, and another specific information on the SICUE program in the month of February. As for the host students, a reception session is organized in the month of October, Welcome Day, in which they are informed and oriented about the centre and the studies, while at the same time they are put in contact with the academic coordinators, who will act as tutors, and the Centre staff involved in their care.

    Internships

    They are optional and are offered in the second semester of 3rd year and you can obtain up to a maximum of 12 credits for academic recognition of external internships and/or accreditation of skills.
    The internships are aimed at placing students in real professional scenarios, which favor the acquisition of knowledge and putting into practice the skills and abilities necessary for their future employment. Professional contexts are sought for students to observe, analyse, reflect, and learn to make decisions and act. They also allow approaching the professional world from different dimensions and the development, in a specific space-time context, of the fundamental professional competences in the degree.
    The Internships have personal tutoring by both the professional tutor and the academic tutor.

  • The TFG involves the completion by each student and individually of a project, report, or original study under the supervision of one or more academic tutors in which the training content received, abilities, skills and abilities acquired during the course are integrated and developed during the degree studies.

The contents of this page were updated on 07.30.2024.