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Study programme 2015-2016

Teaching and training



 Thinking and acting as a cultural critic, that is to say applying a reflective and critical approach to society through its past and present cultural and artistic output, is the main objective which students of the Master Degree in Archaeology and History of Art: General are called upon to achieve. In this way, at the end of their programme, s students will have an active and integrated expert understanding of a select corpus of disciplinary and multidisciplinary knowledge (awareness, terminology, issues, methods, conceptual frameworks) which is indispensable in order for them to become professionals in the different fields of archaeology and the history of art. Students will be able to study and analyse a work or an object, a corpus, a site or a particular theme and undertake personal, objective and methodical research dealing with a significant quantity of information in accordance with disciplinary methods and by using a systematic and rigorous approach. Students will demonstrate the capacity to define a research subject and pose a research question, and will show their ability to focus upon a given question on the basis of quality heuristics and by using the principles of documentary criticism. Students will learn to operate independently by managing research and an individual project, and more generally by keeping their knowledge updated. The CP ARKE thereby wishes to train actors who are receptive to the cultural and socio-professional worlds and who are capable of understanding those worlds and integrating into them easily and efficiently

On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :
1. Think and act as a cultural critic
Apply a reflective and critical approach to society through its past and present cultural and artistic output

2. Mastery of knowledge
Attain an active and integrated expert understanding of a select corpus of disciplinary and multidisciplinary knowledge (awareness, terminology, issues, methods, conceptual frameworks) which is indispensable in order to become an expert in the different fields of archaeology and the history of art.

3. Apply disciplinary methodologies.
Study and analyse a work or an object, a corpus, a site, or a complex issue by calling upon archaeological and history of art methodologies and improving their critical eye.

4. Carry out research using a scientific approach.
Successfully complete an original, individual research assignment dealing with a significant and varied quantity of data, using a rigorous and systematic approach.

5. Independently manage their work and developmental path.
Demonstrate independence in managing a research project and an individual project, and more generally by keeping their knowledge updated.

6. Be receptive to the cultural and socio-professional world.
Understand the cultural and socio-professional worlds and integrate into them easily and efficiently.