The Master’s degree in History and Heritage is divided in three branches of specialization:

• Local and Regional Studies – Memory Construction
• Historic Archives
• Patrimonial Mediation

Its specific goals are:

• To train professionals to be capable of handling fundamental methods and techniques to the identification, inventory, disclosure and preservation of heritage: natural, documental, iconographic, built, archaeological, rural, maritime, industrial;
• To prepare skilled agents for an intervention in cultural entertainment and local and historical tourism;
• To prepare tech

nicians for an integrated and multidisciplinary management of the local heritage, in order to allow the community to preserve it.

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Degree approved under Art. 54 of the Teaching Career Statute (Decree-Law no. 15/2007, of 19/01), regulated by Ordinance no. 334/2008, of 30/04, for the groups 200 (Portuguese and Social Studies / History) and 400 (History). (Order of His Excellency the Secretary of State of Education, July 21st 2009)

• Maximum number of students: 30
• Minimum number of students: 10
• Schedule: Fridays (13.30 to 20.30); Saturdays (9.00 to 13.00); Mondays or Tuesdays at the Faculty of Engineering (Historic Archives branch)
• Contact:
• flsa@letras.up.pt
• Department- dh@letras.up.pt