Master (MSc)

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6 Years
30 Jul 2018
Accreditation DGES
Initial registry R/A-Ef 3379/2011 de 18-03-2011
Update registry R/A-Ef 3379/2011/AL01 de 14-01-2015 / R/A-Ef 3379/2011/AL02 de 08-08-2019
Contacts
School of Sociology and Public Policy
Secretariat
Sedas Nunes Building (Building I), room 1E03
secretariado.espp @iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 015
9:30 - 18:00

Tuition fee EU nationals (2024/2025)

1.stYear 3000.00 €
2.rdYear 1500.00 €
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Lectured in English
Teaching Type In person

The study plan aims to offer both theoretical and practical training. It provides specific training in the domain of the art markets (structure, dynamics, tendencies, collecting, curating, validation and appraisal), as well as an introductory training in management (marketing, accounting, finance and financial investments, entrepreneurship). It also includes study visits and direct contact with relevant professionals of the sector as invited speakers. Students have also the opportunity to complete a curricular internship in an organization of this industry in Portugal or abroad.

Programme Structure for 2024/2025

1st Year
Accountability and Finance Foundation
6.0 ECTS
Management Foundations
6.0 ECTS
Financial Investments in Works of Art
6.0 ECTS
Marketing in Art Markets
6.0 ECTS
Art Market: Structure and Dynamics
6.0 ECTS
Appraisal and Evaluation of Works of Art
6.0 ECTS
Collections and Curatorship
6.0 ECTS
Cultural Entrepreneurship
6.0 ECTS
Internacional Art Markerts
6.0 ECTS
2nd Year
Art Markets Practices
6.0 ECTS
Dissertation in Art Markets
54.0 ECTS
Internship in Art Markets
54.0 ECTS

Recommended optative

The study plan allows the selection of one optional course. It is recommended that students select a course related to the area in which they intend to develop their final work. Optional courses will only be held if they achieve a minimum number of enrolments.

Objectives

The main objective of this program consists on the study of the art markets. It is intended that students comprehend the fundamental structures of these markets and how they function. At the same time, it is intended that students gain the capacity to critically analyse the art markets in their different components. It is also intended that students can improve the performance of the organizations in which they come to work.

  • To understand the basic structure of the art markets (primary market and secondary market).
  • To understand the dynamics of art markets (the interaction between all the components of the system).
  • To critically discuss this structure and these operations.
  • To identify the models (or theories) of management and their contexts: rational models, bureaucratic models (internal processes), human resources models and open system models.
  • To analyse the main concepts and theories in the framework of functions in the management process: planning and decision-making, organization, motivation and leadership, control and social responsibility.
  • To understand the concept, importance and fundamentals of arts marketing.
  • To critically discuss the function of marketing in art markets.
  • To understand the goal of financial accounting and the fundamental equation of accounting.
  • To understand the concepts of direct costs, indirect costs, relevant costs, irrelevant costs and incremental costs and income.
  • To identify and comprehend the major traditional financial investments.
  • To explain the use of artworks as alternative financial investments.
  • To understand and critically discuss the main models for the study of financial risk and return in artworks.
  • To understand and describe the main international art markets (both the established and the emerging).
  • To understand the practical and informal aspects of the operations in the art markets.
  • To understand the importance of the agents and institutions responsible for defining artistic conventions and canons.
  • To recognize the main tendencies in art collecting.
  • To critically discuss the role of the curator.
  • To recognize the mechanisms and procedures for correctly identifying, appraising and evaluating works of art.

 

These skills are developed in the curricular courses that comprise the master's study plan.

Thesis / Final work

The conferral of the Master's requires the completion of a dissertation, a project or an internship report corresponding to 54 credits under the guidance of a professor specialized in the area, as well as the appraisal and public discussion of this project before a jury determined for this purpose.

Contacts
School of Sociology and Public Policy
Secretariat
Sedas Nunes Building (Building I), room 1E03
secretariado.espp @iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 015
9:30 - 18:00
Apply
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