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

Information

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)

Contacts

Departamento de História e de Estudos Políticos e Internacionais

Email: dh@letras.up.pt

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