Visual studies as applied humanities

Cíle studijního programu

The goal of this tuition fee-paid program is to create a place of excellent training into the field of visual cultures and art history. The main ambitions of the program are: 1) to train students to a complex understanding of visual cultures from the Middle Ages to the present day, with a deep focus on the role of visual media in constructing and shaping the analysed societies; 2) to promote skills in collective work, scholarly research, intellectual independency, and cultural mediation in both academic and non-academic institutions (i.e., museums, galleries, research institutes, editing houses); 3) to put forward a transdisciplinary approach to visual, material, and ritual cultures, at the core of research in Bildwissenschaft and art history; 4) lastly, to create an international network of institutions collaborating around this master, conceived in an avant-garde way both on theoretical and practical bases.

Studijní plány

Přijímací řízení
Master's Degree Studies in English 2024/2025 - Autumn 2024
Termín podání do půlnoci 30. 4. 2024

  • Informace o přijímacích zkouškách v tomto studijním programu
    Jedná se o placený program akreditovaný v angličtině. Školné za akademický rok činí 1250 EUR. Podmínky přijímacího řízení jsou dostupné zde: https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/studies/study-programmes-in-english/master-studies/visual-cultures-and-art-history

Studium

  • Cíle

    The goal of this tuition fee-paid program is to create a place of excellent training into the field of visual cultures and art history. The main ambitions of the program are: 1) to train students to a complex understanding of visual cultures from the Middle Ages to the present day, with a deep focus on the role of visual media in constructing and shaping the analysed societies; 2) to promote skills in collective work, scholarly research, intellectual independency, and cultural mediation in both academic and non-academic institutions (i.e., museums, galleries, research institutes, editing houses); 3) to put forward a transdisciplinary approach to visual, material, and ritual cultures, at the core of research in Bildwissenschaft and art history; 4) lastly, to create an international network of institutions collaborating around this master, conceived in an avant-garde way both on theoretical and practical bases.

  • Výstupy z učení

    Absolvent je po úspěšném ukončení studia schopen:

    • Independently, or integrating a research group, produce scientific scholarship using his/her advance knowledge of visual cultures, of heuristic research, but also of up-to-date scholarly perspectives, paradigms, and theories in humanities;
    • engage in both scholarly and public debates regarding issues related to visual cultures, medias, and art history in particular;
    • use English academic (or dissemination) writing skills;
    • continue building a professional international network already started to be established during internships and stay abroad during the master’s programme;
    • display practical know-how in the fields related to visual cultures, established especially during internships, both in academic or non-academic contexts.
  • Uplatnění absolventa

    - Cultural management and monument care

    - Art consulting

    - Tourism

    - Journalism (press and publishing, radio, television, online services)

    - Pedagogy (high schools, teaching to adults, university) and mediation of art

    - Cultural Mediation

  • Pravidla a podmínky pro vytváření studijních plánů

    Bakalářské a magisterské studium probíhá podle celouniverzitního kreditního systému, který je v souladu s pravidly European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Povinně volitelné předměty jsou ve studijním plánu organizovány do jedné čí více skupin; student volí povinně volitelné předměty na základě stanoveného minimálního počtu kreditů v každé skupině.

    Na Masarykově univerzitě došlo k celouniverzitnímu konsensu na pravidlech pro tvorbu studijních programů, které zpřesňují pravidla vymezená v metodice Národního akreditačního úřadu Doporučené postupy pro přípravu studijních programů. Pravidla pro tvorbu studijních programů byla schválena ve stejnojmenné směrnici MU (Směrnice MU č. 11/2017: Pravidla pro tvorbu studijních programů) a vymezují šest typů studijních plánů a jejich použití a kombinace v jednotlivých typech studijních programů. Jedná se o 

    1. jednooborový studijní plán,
    2. studijní plán se specializací,
    3. hlavní studijní plán (maior),
    4. vedlejší studijní plán (minor),
    5. studium podle dvou hlavních studijních plánů,
    6. plán na dostudování (určen pouze studentům z obdobného studijního oboru, kterému zaniká akreditace).

    Premisou pravidel je, že studijní plány umožňují naplnění cílů studia a dosažení profilu absolventa studijního programu. Výjimkou je pouze vedlejší studijní plán, který slouží jako komplementární doplněk hlavního studijního plánu jiného studijního programu. Student nemůže studovat pouze podle vedlejšího studijního plánu.

  • Praxe

    Special focus on practical know-how, both academic and non-academic, will be an integrative part of the master’s programme. As part of their curriculum, students will be doing a – a semester long – mandatory traineeship in a cultural or scholarly institution. These can be ranging from outstanding museal poles (with all possible jobs related), international research institutes, cultural foundations, or editing houses. As such, the practical training will be related deeply to the type of institution chosen for the internship, proposing a broad range of possibilities. Furthermore, during the collective work on a research project, part of the curriculum, students will be introduced to the practical aspects of scholarly work, going through all the steps of the intellectual elaboration throughout the publication of an original scientific project.

  • Cíle kvalifikačních prací

    The master thesis is the occasion for students to be confronted with a very specific topic within his/her field, and to put to practice his/her acquired skills in heuristic research, in independent scholarly writing, in communication with a network of institutions and/or individual scholars, as well as to contextualise, within the historiography of the subject an within an up-to-date panorama of scholarly perspectives, his/her object of study. The thesis should fulfil all the criteria of a publishable scholarly achievement and can in ideal cases lead to an actual scholarly publication.

  • Návaznost na další studijní programy

    Students trained within the master’s programme will present a highly competitive profile for applying to a Ph.D. programme at a Czech university, abroad, or in co-tutoring between a Czech and foreign university. The training in intellectual independency, know-how of visual cultures, but also their practical knowledge and the multidisciplinary approach promoted by the programme will allow the conception of an enticing Ph.D. project, already suited for international competitive contexts. The preparation, as part of the programme, of a publishable scholarly article as well as the first connexions established with a professional international network will enhance the possibilities of future Ph.D. candidates. Students trained in this master’s programme are also ideal candidates for further studies in the adjacent fields of the milieus related to visual studies, media, art history, and mediation of culture.

Základní údaje

Zkratka
N-DUA_
Typ
magisterský navazující
Profil
akademický
Titul
Mgr.
Doba studia
2 roky
Vyučovací jazyk
angličtina angličtina
Roční poplatek za studium
1250 €

18
počet aktivních studentů
6
počet závěrečných prací

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