Thinking and acting as a cultural critic, 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 theirprogramme, 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 be expert 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 complex problem using archaeological and history of art methodologies, while at the same time improving their critical eye.
On successful completion of this programme, each student is able to :
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 thereby wishes to train actors who are receptive to the cultural and socio-professional worlds 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.
7. If the teaching elective is chosen: call upon the competencies necessary to begin teaching effectively in upper secondary education, in the history of art and archaeology, and be able to progress there.
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9. If the “Study of Visual Cultures and their Iconography” professional focus course is chosen: At the end of this professional focus course, which aims to place the history of art in the wider field of the history of images and their media, students will have acquired the historical knowledge relevant to how these images from the period between the Middle Ages and the twenty-first century were created and received. Students will also be capable of mastering the anthropological, sociological and philosophical methodologies relating to the relationships between the images and the art and the societies which created and used them. Finally, students will be aware of the relationships between the different media in order to better understand the challenges of non-aesthetic means of communication (political, religious...).
10. If the National Archaeology professional focus course is chosen: At the end of this professional focus course dealing with national archaeology, students will have acquired highly precise theoretical, practical and technical knowledge in the field of national archaeology, in particular during a general national archaeology seminar and different, specific courses in the field (courses relating to specific archaeological questions in different domains: prehistory, proto-history, Roman Gaul, Early Middle Ages. etc.).
11. If the Greco-Roman archaeology elective is chosen: at the end of this elective dealing with Greco-Roman archaeology, students will have acquired highly precise theoretical, practical and technical knowledge in the field of Greco-Roman archaeology, in particular during a general Mediterranean archaeology seminar and different, specific courses in the field (courses relating to specific archaeological questions in different domains: Aegean, Etruscan, pre-Roman, Italian, Roman province civilizations, etc.).
Finalité spécialisée en arts du moyen âge et des temps modernes
12. If the medieval and modern art elective is chosen: at the end of this elective dealing with medieval and modern art, students will have acquired highly precise theoretical, practical and technical knowledge in the field of art from the 15th to the 18th century, in particular during a general history of art seminar and different, specific courses for the period concerned (courses relating to specific questions of painting, sculpture, relief, architecture, military and fortification art, laboratory methodology, technology, iconology, etc.).
13. If the modern and contemporary art elective is chosen: At the end of this elective dealing with modern and contemporary art, students will have acquired highly precise theoretical, practical and technical knowledge in the field of art from the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, in particular during a general history of art seminar and different, specific courses for the period concerned (courses relating to specific questions of modern art, contemporary art, art history and criticism, new media, photography, etc.).
Finalité spécialisée en arts moderne et contemporain