Content Official Master's Degree in Research in Art and Design

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Master description

The course is titled university master's degree in Research in Art and Design. It has 60 credits, was a UAB-specific degree in its previous 12 editions, including that of 2012-13, with the title of Reflecting on Today's Art, depends on the UAB's Department of Philosophy and is delivered at the Joan Miró Foundation and the Barcelona Picasso Museum. The university master's degree in Art and Design can be taken in a single academic year, with two semesters of 30 credits each. The master's has 48 compulsory ECTS (including the 12 corresponding to the master's degree dissertation) and 24 optional ones that must be taken in groups of 12 (12 correspond to modules modules linked to Project Culture and 12 correspond to modules linked to Visual Creation).

All the modules aim to critically examine new phenomena in art and design, especially in areas where they interconnect or blend together. They focus on both sides of research, on the one hand on practices or strategies generated by new forms or art and design, and on the other, discourses and theories that are being developed to analyse and understand these phenomena. The specialisation in Visual Creation develops specific skills in the field of contemporary practices in art research, both in an aesthetic and a cognitive sense, while the specialisation in Project Culture does the same for specific practices in design research especially with regard to the relationships between form, function, and sociocultural dimension.

For this reason, the master's is structured in a common part, of 6 modules with 6 credits, and an optional part in which the students choose a specialisation from among the two that are offered, Visual Creation and Project Culture, with two modules of 6 credits for each specialisation. In the first semester there are four modules of a more general nature and in the second semester students do the two more advanced compulsory modules and two optional modules, as well as the master's dissertation. As the master's is eminently theoretical, the competencies corresponding to each module are primarily cognitive.

Course begins on

07/10/2024

Course ends on

04/09/2025

Teaching timetable

Monday to Thursday, from 4 pm to 8 pm

Study plan structure

 

 

Type	Credits
Compulsory	36
Optional	12
Master Thesis	12
TOTAL	60

 

 

Module	Credits	Type
Artistic Research I	6	OB
Contemporary Art	6	OB
Contemporary Design	6	OB
Contemporary Thought I	6	OB
Critical Workshop	6	OB
Master's Degree Dissertation	12	OB
Research in Design I	6	OB
Artistic Research II	6	OT
Contemporary Thought II	6	OT
Design Culture	6	OT
Research in Design II	6	OT

 

 

Specialisation in Project Culture

 

 

Module	Credits	Type
Artistic Research I	6	OB
Contemporary Art	6	OB
Contemporary Design	6	OB
Contemporary Thought I	6	OB
Critical Workshop	6	OB
Master's Degree Dissertation	12	OB
Research in Design I	6	OB
Design Culture	6	OT
Research in Design II	6	OT

 

 

Specialisation in Visual Creation

 

 

Module	Credits	Type
Artistic Research I	6	OB
Contemporary Art	6	OB
Contemporary Design	6	OB
Contemporary Thought I	6	OB
Critical Workshop	6	OB
Master's Degree Dissertation	12	OB
Research in Design I	6	OB
Artistic Research II	6	OT
Contemporary Thought II	6	OT

 

 

OB: Compulsory
OT: Optional