Seminar on Advanced Research in Art History

Code: HIS14613D

6 ECTS

Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours

Scientific Area: History of the Art

Teaching languages: Portuguese

Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Presentation

The seminar aims to provide students with the conceptual, theoretical and methodological skills necessary to carry out a doctoral thesis in the scientific field of Art History.

Sustainable Development Goals

Educação de qualidade - Assegurar a educação inclusiva, e equitativa e de qualidade, e promover oportunidades de aprendizagem ao longo da vida para todos.

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e inclusivas em todos os níveis.

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Learning Goals

General objective: to provide students with the conceptual, theoretical and methodological skills necessary to carry out a doctoral thesis.
Specific objectives:
- Ability to define, with rigor and clarity, the problem to be researched.
- To theoretically justify the subject of study/research and the objectives to be achieved with the doctoral thesis.
- To be able to define and justify the most appropriate methodologies for the study/research topic.
- To demonstrate the relevance of the study/research topic in the context of the respective critical and historiographical debate.
- To prepare an original, rigorous and clear research project.

1. The epistemological nature of Art History as a scientific area.
2. The problem of research in the Art History.
3. The theoretical and critical framework of the research in Art History: defining a research theme/problem.
4. The research options / strategies in Art History: from formal analysis and material study of artistic objects to the secondary documentation.
5. The patrimonial approach to the Art History.
6. The possibilities of interdisciplinarity.
7. Structures and standards of the doctoral thesis project.
8. Case studies.

Teaching Methods

Each item of the program corresponds to a lecture session by one of the teachers of the curricular unit. After each one of the lecture sessions, the students must prepare an assignment outside the contact hours, corresponding to one point of the thesis project, which should be presented orally in the following session. Thus, following the sessions corresponding to paragraphs 1 and 2 of the syllabus, students must present their doctoral themes and justify their relevance to the field of Art History. Following paragraph 3, the state of the art concerning the topic under study must be presented. At the end of the seminar, the thesis project must be completed. The lecture sessions will be interspersed with sessions for oral presentation of the assignments.
The evaluation is qualitative ("pass" or "fail") and is based on the oral presentations and on the final result of the thesis project.