Duration
1 academic year full time, 2 academic years part time (60 ECTS credits)
Calendar
From September to June
Timetable
Afternoon schedule
Fee
UE students: 1,800 € | Non EU Students: 5,749.8 €
Places
55
Course type
Research and Academic
Language
Catalan or Spanish (depending on the subject)
UPF PhD to which it grants access

Phd in Humanities

Organisation and contact

Department of Humanities and University Institute of Culture

    Presentation

    The master's degree in Comparative Studies in Literature, Art and Thought has a multidisciplinary orientation that emphasises the relationships between the arts and between different cultural discourses, both from a contemporary and historical perspective. It welcomes students who seek cross-disciplinary training and often have interests and goals that do not fit into traditional divisions of knowledge or specialised postgraduate programmes. It allows the course of studies to be adapted to each individual profile thanks to the wide range of electives and the flexibility in defining the Final Master's Project. Some students want to delve deeper into the field in which they studied the degree, combining it with contributions from other disciplines, and others want to explore a different field from their previous studies.


    The programme provides tools for reflection, analysis and interpretation typical of advanced training in humanistic disciplines, focused on understanding the complexity of the cultural phenomena of our time. It offers the option of approaching the master's degree as an initiation to research leading to a doctorate or as final studies that provide a wide range of theoretical and practical knowledge that, in addition to complementing the academic preparation, suggest possible professional applications in the world of cultural management and production.
     

    Candidates should be intellectually curious, academically rigorous and able to establish relationships between various fields of knowledge. From an intellectually open-minded vantage point, they must be willing and eager to apply their independent learning skills and educational backgrounds to any of the fields covered by the programme with a view to studying in depth the interrelationships and processes responsible for the fertile complexity of contemporary culture.

    MANDATORY DOCUMENTS
     
    • Official university bachelor's or master's degree from the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) or equivalent foreign degree allowing access to a postgraduate degree in the country that issued the degree. Should the applicant have not finished yet their studies at the time of application, they will be asked to sign a statement certifying that they will have completed them before the start of the master degree program.

      Qualifications can be in the following academic areas: Humanities, History of Art, Philosophy, Languages and Literature, History, Theory of Literature and Comparative Literature, Journalism, Audiovisual Communication, Translation and Interpretation, Political Sciences, Psychology, Sociology, Anthropology, Education Sciences, Fine Arts, Architecture or Geography.
    • Academic transcript of the accredited official training with the average grade at the university of origin.
    • Curriculum Vitae in Spanish or Catalan.
    • A research proposal in Spanish or Catalan (600 to 800 words).
    • Identity Card or Passport.


    OPTIONAL DOCUMENTS

    • A letter of recommendation.
    • Professional experience in any of the fields related to the master's programme.
    • Research experience.
    • Teaching experience.
    • Additional academic training in areas related to the master's programme.
    • Additional professional experience .

    In addition, the Departments' selection committee may decide to interview the candidate. 

    The undergraduate degree/diploma and the academic transcript 

    If you have finished your Bachelor degree when you formalise your application, you will need to send us the following documents:

    • A photocopy of your undergraduate degree/diploma or Certification/proof of degree completion.
    • A photocopy of your official final undergraduate transcript.

    However, if you have not yet completed your undergraduate studies when formalising application, you will need to provide us with the following documents:

    • A signed declaration of obtaining your degree before the commencement of the master's programme.
    • A photocopy of the provisional undergraduate transcript. 
    If the diploma or the academic transcript are not written in Catalan, Spanish, English, French, Portuguese or Italian, you will also have to include the respective sworn translations into Catalan or Spanish.

    Research, teaching, cultural management, content documentation, publishing, literary consultancy, proofreading and copy-editing, literary criticism, art criticism, cultural journalism, exhibition coordination, cultural tourism, etc..

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