Master's Degree in Human and Cultural Sciences 24 months Postgraduate Programme By Universidad de Guadalajara (UDG) |TopUniversities

Programme overview

Main Subject

Ethnicity, Gender and Diversity

Degree

Other

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Guidelines on: 
  • Cultural history and gender studies.
  • Culture and cognition. 
  • Cultural heritage and international connections from the local level. 

 
Lines of research and social impact
  • Cultural history: studies of secularization and women. 
  • Gender studies.
  • Culture and Cognition Studies.
  • Local processes and actors for the projection and linking of heritage and culture.
 
General objective.  The Master's and Doctoral program in Human Sciences and Culture aims to train professionals with a strong sense of responsibility towards understanding and solving social problems from a humanistic, interdisciplinary, and collaborative perspective, with a solid theoretical and methodological foundation that allows them to propose and develop relevant, pertinent, and original research projects, as well as participate in the social appropriation of knowledge.
 
Specific objectives for the Master's phase are:
  • To train professionals with a solid theoretical and methodological background in the humanities, capable of addressing sociocultural phenomena in a critical manner.
  • To train professionals capable of collaborating with social actors representing other ways of generating knowledge and researchers from diverse disciplines.
  • To train professionals with a solid theoretical and methodological background in the humanities, capable of collaborating in professional cultural projects for the rescue, conservation and projection of tangible and intangible heritage, as well as in processes and strategies of international projection and linkage from the local level. 
  • To train professionals with the ability to communicate research results in the academic and scientific field.
  • To train professionals with the ability to adapt to the changes inherent in the humanities, including new technological resources for research.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Ethnicity, Gender and Diversity

Degree

Other

Study Level

Masters

Study Mode

On Campus

Guidelines on: 
  • Cultural history and gender studies.
  • Culture and cognition. 
  • Cultural heritage and international connections from the local level. 

 
Lines of research and social impact
  • Cultural history: studies of secularization and women. 
  • Gender studies.
  • Culture and Cognition Studies.
  • Local processes and actors for the projection and linking of heritage and culture.
 
General objective.  The Master's and Doctoral program in Human Sciences and Culture aims to train professionals with a strong sense of responsibility towards understanding and solving social problems from a humanistic, interdisciplinary, and collaborative perspective, with a solid theoretical and methodological foundation that allows them to propose and develop relevant, pertinent, and original research projects, as well as participate in the social appropriation of knowledge.
 
Specific objectives for the Master's phase are:
  • To train professionals with a solid theoretical and methodological background in the humanities, capable of addressing sociocultural phenomena in a critical manner.
  • To train professionals capable of collaborating with social actors representing other ways of generating knowledge and researchers from diverse disciplines.
  • To train professionals with a solid theoretical and methodological background in the humanities, capable of collaborating in professional cultural projects for the rescue, conservation and projection of tangible and intangible heritage, as well as in processes and strategies of international projection and linkage from the local level. 
  • To train professionals with the ability to communicate research results in the academic and scientific field.
  • To train professionals with the ability to adapt to the changes inherent in the humanities, including new technological resources for research.

Admission Requirements

At the Master's level, in addition to those established in university regulations, the following are required:
  • Simple copy of the Bachelor's degree or graduation certificate in areas related to Social Sciences and Humanities.
  • Applicants must demonstrate a minimum grade point average of 80 with an original certificate or equivalent document from their previous studies, as applicable. Foreign applicants, in addition to meeting the aforementioned academic and institutional requirements, must have immigration authorization and demonstrate financial solvency.
  • Original birth certificate.
  • Have a Unique Population Registry Code (CURP). In the case of foreigners, it must be valid.
  • Present and pass a reading comprehension exam in at least one foreign language, preferably English or French (minimum B1 of CEFR or intermediate TOEFL 337-459 through a certificate issued by a recognized institution).
  • Pass the admission exam (EXANI III minimum score of 700).
  • Submit the letter of acceptance issued by a professor recognized by the Academic Board, in which he agrees to be your Thesis Director.
  • Letter of intent explaining your reasons for taking the program, mentioning the time commitment, preferably full-time.
  • Curriculum evaluation and interview with members of the academic core of professors.
  • Submit a research project proposal.
  • Register with SIIAU and pay the corresponding fees.
  • Approve the other requirements published in the respective call for applications.
 
Applicants who are graduates and/or have received a degree from the University of Guadalajara are exempt from submitting a simple copy or original of the requirements established in sections a), b) and c) of this resolution, since the school archive already contains the electronic information of the same.
 
For students with previous studies completed abroad, in addition to the above, the following is required:

The degree, certificates and birth certificate must be apostilled or the applicable procedure for countries not members of the Hague Convention and if they are in a language other than Spanish, accompany a translation by an accredited expert.

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