Access: Visual Arts. Artistic Practices and Research

STUDY CYCLE’S GOALS

1) The Visual Arts. Artistic Practices and Research master aims for the students to acquire the following knowledge and competences:

a) Provide students with the necessary skills to integrate them into the professional filed of art.
b) To deepen the knowledge of the Visual Arts and the relations that these establish with other territories of reflection.
c) To enable the construction of an interdisciplinary body of work in able of informing the artistic practice both from a conceptual and tecnical point of view.
d) Promote the interaction between artistic production in the field of visual arts and research practice.
e) Encourage a projectual practice in the context of exhibition design.

APPLICATION CONDITIONS

1) It can apply to the Visual Arts. Artistic Practices and Research master:

a) Candidates holding a certificate of completion of a bachelor degree obtained in a Higher Education Institution of subscribing countries of the Declaration of Bologna and others considered to be related, taking into account its curricular structure;
b) Holders of a national or foreign higher academic degree that is recognized as satisfying the objectives of the graduate degree by ESAP’s statutorily competent scientific body;
c) Holders of an academic, scientific or professional curriculum that is recognized by ESAP Scientific Council as being able to complete this cycle of studies.

 

SERIATION CRITERIA

Candidates who meet the academic and curricular conditions stated in the ‘Application Conditions’, will be selected and listed, taking into account the following criteria:

a) Academic curriculum:

I) Bachelors degree ranking;
II) Bachelors degree, preferably in the area of Visual Arts as well as others considered suitable

b) Scientific curriculum
c) Professional curriculum
d) Possible interview as complementary criterion 

DENSIFICATION OF EVALUATION CRITERIA:

1) The curricular analysis (AC) will be made taking into account the following parameters:

a) Academic curriculum (CA) – weighting the academic qualifications required, as follows:

I) with a final bachelors degree (or equivalent) grade: 10-13 points ………………..12 points (0 to 20 scale)
II) with a final bachelors degree (or equivalent) grade: 14-16 points ………………..15 points (0 to 20 scale)
III) with a final bachelors degree (or equivalent) grade: 17-20 points ………………..18 points (0 to 20 scale)

 

b) Scientific Curriculum (CC) – taking into account the applicants’ participation in congresses, seminars, research projects, number of articles published, prizes and similar elements, on a scale of 0 to 20 points, as long as these are activities in the scientific area of the study cycle, in following terms:

I) Very little relevant curriculum:10 points
II) Slightly relevant curriculum:12 points
III) Relevant curriculum:14 points
IV) Very relevant curriculum:16 points
V) Extremely relevant curriculum:18 points

 

c) Professional Curriculum (CP) – taking into account, on a scale of 0 to 20 points, the duration and nature of the professional duties exercised, as long as they are they are qualified by employment contract or on an independent basis, in the scientific area of the study cycle, as follows:

I) Very little relevant curriculum:10 points
II) Slightly relevant curriculum:12 points
III) Relevant curriculum:14 points
IV) Very relevant curriculum:16 points
V) Extremely relevant curriculum:18 points

 

2) In addition to the curricular assessment, an individual interview (EI) may be held whenever the assessment of the academic, scientific and professional curriculum is not sufficiently distinctive of the position of different applicants, taking into account the following competences and capacities:

I) Ability to express and communicate

II) Motivation for entrance in the study cycle

The classification of each member will result from the arithmetic average of the scores assigned, on a scale of 0 to 20 points, for each of the two assessment factors I) and II).

 

3) Final classification will be scored by using the following formula,  on a scale of 0 to 20 points: AC = (CA*X+CC+CP)/3.
Being:

AC = Curricular analysis
CA = Academic curriculum
CC = Scientific curriculum
CP = Professional curriculum

X’s  weighting factor assumes one of the following: 

X = 1.3 for applicants with a bachelor degree in the area of Visual Arts.
X = 1.0 for applicants with a bachelor degree in all other areas considered suitable

 

4) If it is stated the need to perform an individual assessment (EI), the final classification’s formula is adapted as follows: CF = (AC+EI)/2
Being:

CF = Final classification
AC = Curricular analysis (Academic+scientific+professional curricula)
EI = Individual assessment

 

5. Scores resulting from the calculation of averages shall be expressed to the hundredths, by rounding, in each selection method and also in the final classification, by default or by excess, according to whether the value of the thousandths is less than or equal to five. 

 

 

DEADLINES

 

1st PHASE

Application: 4 July to 12 August 2022
Documents delivery: until 26 August 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 2 September 2022
Complaints: 2 and 5 September 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 6 September 2022
Enrollment: 7 to 13 September 2022

 

2nd PHASE (if vacancies are available)

Application: 29 August to 14 September 2022
Documents delivery: until 14 September 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 15 September 2022
Complaints: 15 and 16 September 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 19 September 2022
Enrollment: 20 to 23 September 2022

 

3rd PHASE (when vacancies exist)

Application: 19 September to 14 October 2022
Documents delivery: until 14 October 2022
Affixation of the provisory seriation list: 17 October 2022
Complaints: 17 and 18 October 2022
Affixation of the final seriation list: 19 October 2022
Enrollment: 20 to 28 October 2022

 

VACANCIES

25

 

DOCUMENTS

1. Application form (ESAP’s model);
2. Certificate of academic qualifications (copy collated by ESAP’s services) and diploma supplement (if applicable);
3. Detailed curriculum;
4. ID Card.

Notice:The document mentioned in n.º 2, in case it isn’t issued in Portuguese, English, French or Spanish, must always be translated by a certified translater and authenticated by the Embassy or Portuguese Consulate of the degree’s home country or by Hague’s Convention Apostille.

 

 

Prices

ESAP’s Tuition and School Fees.

 

INFORMATION

Reading this webpage doesn’t exempt from consultation of the Normas Regulamentares do Mestrado em Artes Visuais. Práticas Artísticas e Investigação Regulation.