Professional Practice in Management of Artistic Heritage
Code: 100552 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Art History | OT | 3 |
| Art History | OT | 4 |
Contact
- Name:
- Ana Belen Villalonga Gordaliza
- Email:
- annabel.villalonga@uab.cat
Teachers
- Simona Perna
Teaching groups languages
You can view this information at the end of this document.
Prerequisites
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For the Pràctiques Professionals course, students must preregister according to a calendar that is published annually. The calendar can be consulted at the following link:
https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/grados/oferta-de-grados/informacion-1345722453729.htmlFailure to preregister will result in the inability to enroll in the Pràctiques Professionals course. A student will only be assigned an internship placement if they have preregistered within the established deadline. The preregistration process allows students to prioritize up to five internship options. Placement is determined based on the student's academic transcript average.
It is recommended that students have taken and passed the core subjects, museography, and all museology-related courses offered in the degree program. Priority will be given to students following the Art and Management track.
This course is intended to be taken during the final semester of the fourth year of the Art History degree, once the student has completed and passed the maximum number of credits. The internship takes place in cultural centers and institutions with which the UAB has signed internship agreements. Placements are assigned based on students' preferences, tutor recommendations, and the proximity of the institutions to the student’s place of residence.
Internships generally take place in the mornings from Monday to Friday, occasionally in the afternoons or on weekends. Students should check with the assigned center to ensure there are no scheduling conflicts later on.
Objectives and Contextualisation
- To know the professional reality in the field of museology and cultural heritage management: museums, art galleries, cultural enterprises, research groups.
- Apply the knowledge and procedures learned in the curricula of the degree.
- To develop a specific field work, according to the needs of the center.
- To analyze from a critical perspective the practices carried out in order to improve the insertion and development of future professionals.
Competences
- Art History
- Demonstrating they have basic knowledge of museology and museography, as well as the current problems about conservation and restoration of artistic heritage.
- Designing, producing and spreading management projects of artistic heritage.
- Organising educational projects in various levels of the learning of Art History, applying the instrumental knowledge related to the discipline.
- Organising the curator of exhibitions of permanent and temporal nature.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
Learning Outcomes
- Adapting themselves to the professional market.
- Analysing basic concepts of museology and museography.
- Analysing ideas about an artistic phenomenon in a given cultural context.
- Analysing the creators of an artistic phenomenon in a specific cultural context.
- Analysing the current or past debates about management, conservation, restoration and documentation systems of the artistic heritage.
- Analysing the recipients of an artistic phenomenon in a specific cultural context.
- Applying the arrangements and international, state and autonomic principles related to the management of the artistic heritage.
- Applying the iconographic knowledge to the reading of artistic imagery.
- Contrasting the various legal frameworks that can be applied to a practical case of management, documentation and conservation of the artistic heritage.
- Designing a museographic programme.
- Designing and applying education programmes in the different fields of Art History.
- Designing programmes of temporal and permanent expositions, including the programming of activities of educational nature for school and family audiences.
- Drawing up reports of artistic specialisation.
- Drawing up restoration reports of the architectonic and artistic heritage.
- Engaging in debates about historical facts respecting the other participants' opinions.
- Organizing their own time and work resources: designing plans with priorities of objectives, schedules and action commitments.
- Planning and applying museographic projects and programmes, using the acquired knowledge about museology.
- Producing a project of management and conservation of the artistic imagery.
- Producing catalogue sheets and inventory of the architectonic or artistic heritage.
- Reflecting on their own work and the immediate environment's in order to continuously improve it.
- Using the acquired knowledge in the elaboration of files, reports and rulings related to the conservation, documentation, and dissemination of the artistic heritage (cataloguing, inventory, restoration reports, artistic specialisation.
Content
Internships can be carried out in 4 types of institutions: museums, cultural companies, art galleries and research groups.
You can consult the Internship Protocol at the following link:
https://www.uab.cat/web/estudiar/graus/graus/informacio-1345722449027.html
Activities and Methodology
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| Internships | 135 | 5.4 | 2, 4, 5, 6, 3, 8, 7, 9, 11, 12, 10, 19, 16, 15, 17, 18, 13, 14, 20, 1, 21 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| In-person compulsory tutorials and report | 15 | 0.6 | 4, 6, 3, 8, 7, 9, 11, 12, 16, 15, 18, 13, 14 |
Students must attend a minimum of two tutoring sessions (either in person or online) during the internship period. The tutor will record these sessions in an official report.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Assessment
Continous Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Internship coordinator's report | 10% | 0 | 0 | 11, 10, 19, 13, 14, 20, 21 |
| Report by the students | 20% | 0 | 0 | 2, 5, 10, 19, 16, 17, 18, 13, 14, 20, 21 |
| Report issued by the tutor of the center on the internships carried out. | 70% | 0 | 0 | 2, 4, 5, 6, 3, 8, 7, 9, 11, 12, 19, 16, 15, 17, 13, 14, 20, 1, 21 |
Students who do not attend their internship or who fail the report issued by the host institution’s tutor will receive a failing grade and will not be eligible for reassessment or re-enrolment.
As part of the training activities specified in the assessment of the Pràctiques Externes, students must meet the following two requirements:
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Attend at least two group career guidance sessions organized by the UAB Employability Service and provide proof by attaching the attendance certificate to the Internship Report.
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Complete the Professional Skills Test (Test de Competències Professionals) offered by the UAB Employability Service. The test results must be downloaded and attached to the Internship Report.
Definition of "Not Assessable" and other important clarifications:
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Not Assessable: When the student has completed less than 10% of the total on-site hours agreed upon in the internship agreement.
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Fail: When the student has completed more than 10% of the required hours but fails to complete the full internship or receives a negative evaluation.
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Distinction (Matrícula d’Honor): This grade is not awarded due to its discretionary nature and the heterogeneous characteristics of this course across the various degree programs within the Faculty.
This course does not offer the single assessment option.
Bibliography
All materials used throughout the degree program and those recommended by the internship tutor.
Software
Specific software is not required.
Groups and Languages
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.