Class Cultural Policies and Museology

This Curricular Unit is part of the set of curricular units of the Doctorate in Sociomuseology, which correspond to specialized knowledge covering, as a whole, the main areas of knowledge considered fundamental for the construction of the desired profile at the Doctorates's level, with a workload of 20 contact hours.

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The Public Cultural Policy (PPC) models in the national and international context; The Place of museology and Heritage in PPCs; The notions of Memory and Identity in the context of Museology inserted in the PPCs; The notions of Culture as a vector of integrated development; Different development models and their implications for museology; What development potential do museums promote, especially in their new formats and geographic areas (national museum, local museum, networks of museums)? How can museums assume and play a developmental role? International documents produced by UNESCO (ICOM/ICOMOS/MINOM); Transformation of the guiding principles in the scientific field of Museology and Cultural Heritage.

Classes in seminar format allow a comprehensive reflection of the problems under discussion. More important than the transmission of knowledge is, in this sense, the attribution of competences based on the reflection and criticism of the themes presented through the debate, oriented around the subjects treated. Experts are invited in the different fields of the treated themes, mostly international, allowing a reflection and criticism of the themes presented through the debate oriented around the treated subjects; promoting a comprehensive reflection on the subjects taught. An international study visit is carried out annually, allowing contact with different realities and forms of action, enabling new perspectives and the sharing of knowledge with different realities. The evaluation is carried out through a work, transversal to all the curricular units, where the subjects are related. The evaluation work, the Research Project to be developed with commented bibliography.  

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