Performing Arts

Cycle

Segundo ciclo

Degree

Master

Coordinator

Paulo Filipe Monteiro

Opening date

September 2016

Vacancies

15

Fees

New students - 1.100,00€

Schedule

After-work schedule (to be available at http://www.fcsh.unl.pt/ensino/mestrados)

Education objectives

Study cycle´s objectives.
a) To enhance research and academic training in an actual and prevailing interdisciplinary domain, although it is still a new domain in Portuguese universities;
b) To respond to requests from professionals of the performing arts, as well as from professionals from the media, whose work is closely related to some or even to all of the performing arts.

Competences to be developed by students.
a) analytical awareness of how all aspects of performing arts work: from writing to directing, from performance to the relation with space and audiences, from the relation with music to the growing hybridism that exists between the various arts, from creation to the presentation in different supports and to the connection to programming strategies;
b) practical experience enhancing a better understanding of concepts and theories in their full potentialities and difficulties;
c) knowledge to develop in-depth academic research, in dialogue with other fields of knowledge;
d) ability to communicate to specialists and non-specialists, in a clear and reasoned way, methodologies and conclusions, and the knowledge and reasoning underneath them, either in writing or orally;
e) acquire skills that enable them to develop autonomous lifelong learning, in constant dialogue with scientific and non-scientific knowledge.

Access conditions

1) As provided in paragraph 1, article 17 of Decree-Law No. 74/2006 and republished by Decree-Law No. 115/2013. 2) Applicants meeting the requirements of academic and curricular shall be selected taking into account the following criteria: a) degree classification; b) academic and scientific curriculum; c) Professional curriculum; d) Possible interview

Degree pre-requisites

Length: 3 semesters.
Total credits: 93 credits (60 in course units of the study programme + 33 in the non-taught component).
ypes of non-taught component: Dissertation, Project Work, Practical Work Experience with Report.
Number of credits from free-elective options: 10 credits (the student can obtain 10 credits from elective options in course units taught at post-graduate level at FCSH/UNL, or at any other national or foreign higher education institution through a protocol.)

Access to other courses

Completion of the Masters degree allows the holder to apply for the cycle of studies which leads to a Doctorate Degree. For the specific access requirements for doctoral programmes, consult the regulations governing the doctoral programmes at FCSH/NOVA.

Evaluation rules

Academic Regulation for curricular units evaluation is available at intranet. A final grade, expressed as a number between 10 and 20 on a scale of 0 to 20 as well as its equivalent on the ECTS grading scale, is awarded for the post-graduate diploma. The final grade of the post-graduate diploma is the average, by credit, of the grades obtained in the course units in which the student obtained the 60 credits from the taught part of the Masters course. A final grade, expressed as a number between 10 and 20 on a scale of 0 to 20 as well as its equivalent on the ECTS grading scale, is awarded for the Masters degree. The final grade of the Masters degree will be the average of the final grade of the taught part of the course, weighted to 40%, and the grade awarded to the dissertation, project work or practical work experience report, weighted to 60%.

Structure

Elective option 1
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
722011102	Dance in Context - 1st semester	10
722011096	Espaços Performativos (not translated) - 2nd semester	10
722011123	History of Mediatic Performance - 2nd semester	10
722011059	Performance Languages - 2nd semester	10
722011131	Literatura e Cena (not translated)	10
722011097	Performance Metamorphoses - 1st semester	10
722011130	O espectáculo músico-teatral (not translated) - 1st semester	10
722011132	Práticas Cénicas (not translated)	10
722011124	Scenic Arts Programming - 2nd semester	10
722011126	Semiotics and Performance Arts	10

Elective option 2
Code	Name	ECTS
Options
722011152	Dissertation in Performing Arts	33
722011151	Internship with Report in Performing Arts	33
722021033	Work Project in Performing Arts	33