Arts and humanities

The Master's program is organized into three different tracks, each targeting different skills and levels of application of art historical methods. Taking place over two years, each of these courses will enable students either to enter the cultural profession, or to pursue doctoral studies, subject to acceptance of the thesis project by the Doctoral School.
All our courses encourage international student mobility and are supported by a vast network of local, national and international institutions (Italy, Germany, Canada, USA...).
Specialized English courses to develop foreign language skills are compulsory for all students enrolled in the Master's program.
Some courses are shared between the different tracks, to create a common core of knowledge, while others offer the acquisition of tools specific to each track.

To complete the two-year Master's program, students must write and defend a dissertation (two dissertations in the Ancient Sciences program).
This is a research dissertation for the History, Techniques and Theory of the Visual Arts course, to be defended no later than the end of the fourth semester.
For the Museums, Exhibitions, Heritage pathway, this is an applied research dissertation, linked to heritage issues, a subject concerning the history or current affairs of museums and collections, an internship experience, etc., to be defended at the end of the third semester.
For the Ancient Sciences pathway, a research dissertation related to Antiquity will be defended in M1 and another in M2.
The department's teacher-researchers support this work, from the definition of the subject to the defense, and must be consulted in advance of the application to define the dissertation project.
(See list of lecturers involved in the Master of Art History and teaching themes in the box at the bottom of the page)

What's more, the campus has many assets for art history students:

• well-stocked libraries, both general (BU, UFR) and specialized (research libraries)
• in partnership with Isère's 11 departmental museums
• archive networks keen to collaborate with the University (Archives départementales on campus, Musée de la Révolution française, Musée Champollion in Vif, Château de Sassenage, etc.).
• MACI-Maison de la Création et de l'Innovation in the heart of the campus
• in partnership with the Isère Department of Culture and Heritage

Consult the Master's in Art History fact sheet

3 routes are available