Conservation and Restoration
Cycle
Segundo ciclo
Degree
Mestre
Paths
Coordinator
Joana Lia Antunes Ferreira
Opening date
September
Fees
1063,47 Euros/year or 7000,00 Euros/year (for foreign students).
Schedule
Daytime.
Education objectives
The Master in Conservation and Restoration will have the autonomy to apply the basics of preventive conservation, and to carry on the Work curative intervention, ie to restore.
The competence to carry out an intervention Restoration implies a critical attitude and a thorough assessment that will not only characterize the state of change and pathologies of the Work and propose intervention measures, both preventive and curative, the more correct. Of particular importance in the formation of these criticisms, history and art production techniques and methods of examination and analysis in Art and Archaeology.
In the final stage, year-round, students will construct their area of expertise. On stage, students are prepared for the open problems that are ambiguous and daily life in their future professional life as well as the stress of everyday work in a market economy, highly competitive.
The trained professional will know how to innovate, to continuously upgrade and compete internationally.
Access conditions
Admission:
1. Holders of a degree and having a minimum of 80 credits in the areas of Conservation (CONS) and Conservation Sciences (CCONS) (CONS + CCONS = 80 ECTS) and training in Art History (20 ECTS).
2. Holders of a foreign academic degree that is recognized as meeting the objectives of a degree in Conservation, the Council of the Department of Conservation and Restoration and the Scientific Council of FCT / UNL.
3. Holders of an academic, scientific or professional that is recognized as attesting the capacity for carrying out this cycle of studies by the Board of the Department of Conservation and Restoration and the Scientific Council of FCT / UNL.
Criteria for ranking of candidates:
1. In regra.os students will be serialized by academic classification obtained in the first cycle;
2. in case of a tie, carried out a second ranking, taking into account the number of years that the student took to complete the first cycle;
3. Finally, if still necessary to tie, it is considered the age of the candidate.
Degree pre-requisites
Duration: 2 years
Credits: 120 ECTS
Mandatory scientific areas:
Conservation and Restoration
| Scientific Area | Acronym | ECTS | |
| Mandatory | Optional | ||
| Human and Social Sciences | CHS | 6 | - |
| Conservation Sciences | CCONS | 33 | - |
| Restoration and Conservation | CONS | 75 | - |
| Conservation and Restoration / Conservation Sciences | CONS / CCONS | - | 6 |
| TOTAL | 114 | 6 | |
Conservation Sciences
| Scientific Area | Acronym | ECTS | |
| Mandatory | Optional | ||
| Human and Social Sciences | CHS | 6 | - |
| Conservation Sciences | CCONS | 96 | 6 |
| Restoration and Conservation | CONS | 12 | - |
| TOTAL | 114 | 6 | |
Access to other courses
Access to a 3rd cycle
Evaluation rules
The following modes of evaluation are used with regard to academic qualifications:
- Evaluation based solely on an examination or completion of a final project.
- Evaluation based on work done throughout the semester excluding examination or final project. In these courses students can expect to carry out, for example, laboratory activities, mini-tests, tests, individual or group projects, seminar-related activities, any combination of which will be used to determine the final grade.
- Evaluation based obligatorily on an examination or a final project. In these courses there extists a form of evaluation similar to one of the aformentioned activities in paragraph 2 as well as a form of evaluation based on a final exam.
- Evaluation based on work done throughout the semester with the possibility of foregoing an examination or a final project.
The final Dissertation (or Project) involves a public discussion with a Jury.