Thinking and acting as a cultural critic, that is to say applying a reflective and critical approach to society through its past and present sound, musical and cultural output, is the main objective which students of the Master Degree in Archaeology and History of Art: Musicology are called upon to achieve. In this way, at the end of their programme, the students will have an active and integrated expert understanding of a corpus of disciplinary and multidisciplinary knowledge (awareness, terminology, issues, methods, conceptual frameworks) which is indispensable in order to become expert in the different fields of musicology. The students can study and analyse a work, a corpus, or a complex issue by calling upon musicological methodologies and improving their critical eye. Students can conduct original and individual research dealing with a significant and varied volume of data in accordance with a systematic and rigorous approach, demonstrating independence in managing a research project and an individual project, and more generally by keeping their knowledge updated. In this way, the CP ARKE/MUSI thereby wishes to train intellectuals in the field of humanities who are actors open to the musical, cultural and socio-professional worlds who are capable of understanding those worlds, providing others the keys to that understanding and integrating into them easily and efficiently.