Active since September 2009, the MA in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture (UAM-UCM) has been updated according to the transformations occured in the fields of Art History, contemporary artistic practices and the emergence of new research scenarios and work areas.

The new plan will be implemented in the academic year 2023-2024. This opens a new phase for an MA degree that has trained more than 500 students since 2009, many of whom are currently top professionals standing out both nationwide and internationally, in the fields of academic and artistic research, cultural management, exhibitions, art criticism or publishing.

The new plan presents a similar structure, consisting of 60 ECTS. The main change is the inclusion of a third internship track (curatorial practices), thus strengthening the profesionalizing character of the MA degree, together with its consolidated theoretical training. The table below shows all the updated courses and the three available internship tracks.

 

Module	Area	Courses
Introduction to Research		Research Methodology in Contemporary Art History and Visual Culture
History of Art, Architecture and Design of the 20th and 21st centuries	Art History of the 20th and 21st centuries	Histories and Theories of Avant-garde Movements
		Between the Histories of Feminist Art and Gender Theory
		Critical Debates on Coloniality and Globalization
	Contemporary Art Practices and Proceses	Live Arts and Performance
		Contemporary Art Practices and Debates in Spain
		Art and Technologies
	Architecture, Space and Design	Constructing and Deconstructing. Contemporary Architectures
		Art, Design and other Materialities
		Spaces of Dwelling: Territories and Sustainability
Theories of Contemporary Art and Visual Culture	Contemporary Theoretical Frameworks	Theoretical-Critical Debates in Contemporary Art and Visual Culture
		Contemporary Esthetics
		Art Criticism
	Contemporary Visual Culture	Contemporary Photography
		Comic and Transmedia Practices
		Contemporary Cinema
Internships		Internships in Museum Management
		Internships in Curatorial Practices
		Internships in Research Project
Final MA Dissertation		Final MA Dissertation

 

 

Legal framework: Resolución de 2 de septiembre de 2022, de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, por la que se publica la modificación del plan de estudios de Máster Universitario en Historia del Arte Contemporáneo y Cultura Visual (Máster conjunto de las universidades Autónoma de Madrid y Complutense de Madrid, BOE Nº 226, 20 de septiembre de 2022).