Master's Degree in Medieval European Studies: Images, Texts and Contexts

The study plan of this Master is made up of three modules within which the different subjects that make up it are grouped and which add up to a total of 60 credits.

• Mandatory: 30
• Electives: 18
• Master's final project: 12
• Total: 60

Teaching activities take place throughout the academic year in the afternoon (between 4:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m.).

To obtain the degree, it is necessary to pass a total of 60 ECTS, distributed over two semesters.

In the 1st semester, the compulsory subjects will be taken (30 ECTS) and in the 2nd, students will be able to choose 3 optional subjects (18 ECTS) among the 7 offered and the optional external internships.

The teaching languages are Spanish and Galician.

• Offer a plural and integrative vision of medieval European culture in its various manifestations.
• Train students to establish reciprocal relationships between the main axes that make up the Master: historical, artistic and literary linguistics.
• Train students to acquire exhaustive knowledge of the lines of research and the most relevant critical proposals in the field of medieval studies.
• Provide students with the methodological and critical foundations that allow them to access the exercise of research activity with versatile and interdisciplinary training.
• Train students in the management of new information and communication technologies applied to the field of medieval studies, as well as indicate their usefulness in research practice and in the dissemination of cultural heritage.
• Provide students with the fundamental skills to take advantage of and apply the knowledge acquired to the correct interpretation and dissemination of the medieval cultural legacy.
• Train students to open new avenues of research in the field of medieval studies.
• Make it possible for students, with their research work, to contribute to European cultural development through the critical interpretation and correct transmission of medieval cultural heritage in its various manifestations.
• Contribute to the cultural development of Galicia through the correct valorization, interpretation and contextualization of the medieval legacy it has.

The Master's Degree is primarily aimed at graduates from History, Art History and Philology degrees, interested in delving into the Middle Ages in an interdisciplinary way. In any case, its structure facilitates access for any graduate of other degrees, especially in the field of Humanities or Social Sciences, who wish to complete their training in the field of medieval studies.

The master's degree provides students with the possibility of continuing their line of research in the Middle Ages in a specific doctoral program (PD in Medieval Studies RD 199/2011). This is completed with the linking of the master's degree to the interdisciplinary Medieval Studies Network, financed by the Xunta de Galicia in different competitive calls, and which includes consolidated research groups that have among their priority lines the study of the Middle Ages in its various facets. .

Furthermore, although the master's degree has a fundamentally research orientation, the training it provides enables the development of professions of very diverse types that require knowledge in the field of the Middle Ages. It is worth highlighting the important success rate achieved by graduates of the degree in the qualification tests for tourist guides, and in access to any job in museums, archives, libraries, heritage-related organizations, etc.