The program is structured into three parts:

• Elective courses (20 credits): Modules 1 and 2.
• Compulsory course (4 credits): Module 3.
• Research or professional practice placement (12 credits)
• Master’s Thesis (24 credits)

With regard to elective courses (Modules 1 and 2), each campus will offer some of the courses listed in the modules; therefore, please check the elective courses offered at each campus for the corresponding academic year.

Module 1: Foundations of Visual Arts Teaching and Education

• Visual arts education, visual culture and social constructionism
• From a topic of interest to a research project: a constructionist perspective
• Methodologies for the analysis of the visual
• Masculinities, gender studies and contemporary art
• Cultures of the visual in educational environments
• Theories and practices on the art education curriculum from a constructionist perspective
• Artistic research methodologies in education, visual arts and art education
• New perspectives in artistic research: narrative artistic research
• Social cartography in the arts and new perspectives in comparative education
• Art education and multicultural studies
• Constructionist analysis of the structure of the artistic event
• Ethical values and perspectives in visual arts education
• Power and subjectivity in research on the art education curriculum
• Critical histories of art and visual culture
• Global image, critical pedagogy and visual culture
• Creativity in art teaching and artistic research
• Plastic and visual creativity: interlocutions and contemporary pedagogical perspectives on learning processes from and with contemporary visual arts

Module 2: Teaching projects

• Photography as an arts-based educational research strategy in visual arts
• Art education, critical perspectives and educational practice
• Museums, narratives and social constructionism
• Visual arts and social intervention
• Art education and social intervention
• Art education and feminist theories
• Study and analysis of the educational function of the museum, public attitudes and educational programs: methods and research topics in this field
• Drawing and heritage: learning to value heritage through drawing
• Iconographic constructions in childhood and their value as key elements in visual arts research: a semiotic perspective
• Private photography in the service of art pedagogy
• Artistic studies: didactic analysis and learning processes
• Research in art education: multicultural, ecosocial and ethical perspectives
• Images and words: visual arts and negotiation of meaning in the classroom
• Teaching in museums: professional training and teaching strategies
• Art education and interculturality
• Arts-based educational research
• Childhoods, gender and sexuality
• Cultural mediation in museums within the European context
• Methodologies for the analysis of the visual

Module 3: Methodologies

• Constructionist methodologies in learning and teaching visual arts

Module 4: Research and professional practice placements

• Teaching guide for research and professional practice placements
• List of partner institutions
• External placement institutions at the different master’s campuses
• Study plan

Module 5: Master’s Thesis

• Guidelines for the development and preparation of the Master’s Thesis (TFM)
• Teaching guide for the Master’s Thesis (TFM)
• Master’s Thesis supervisors
• Criteria for assigning supervisors and Master’s Thesis topics
• Guidelines for the management of Master’s Final Projects
• Template for the minutes of the constitution of the Master’s Thesis evaluation committee

Elective courses offered in the academic year and course guides

University of Granada

University of Barcelona

University of Girona

Placement institutions

Each student (or group of students, in the case of several students undertaking their placement at the same institution) is assigned a tutor, with whom they must meet every two weeks to monitor the work carried out during the placement and the corresponding report. The aim is to distinguish between different methodological perspectives for conducting a research project on cultural practices linked to the arts and to design educational and training materials (in digital and analog formats) related to visual arts.

Monthly group sessions are held to share research methodologies on practices and discursive experiences related to visual arts and education, and to manage training projects related to visual arts and education in different institutional and community settings.

Partner institutions for placements