InfoMàster: Music as an Interdisciplinary Art

The master's degree is developed mainly through classroom activity in daily sessions from Monday to Friday, distributed among the different subjects, as it appears in the official schedule. In many of the subjects, teaching responsibility is shared between several teachers, coordinated by one of them, which appears in the schedules and other documents. Of all the teachers of each subject, the virtual campus (intranet) provides a means to contact them.

In addition to the theoretical teaching activity, teachers may propose practical activities linked to the content of the various subjects, as well as other activities related to the learning of the students themselves, which must not be necessarily developed either in the classroom, or in person and which, exceptionally, could be outside class time, given the nature of the master's degree, linked to the poster of musical shows in the country.

Catalan is the University of Barcelona’s own official language, and as such it has institutional and administrative uses. In university teaching, Catalan and Spanish are used as official languages of Catalonia. The subjects of the master's degree, by virtue of what is contemplated in its Verification Report, can be taught in Catalan and / or Spanish, indistinctly, according to the indication of each of the teachers, who have the freedom to choose any of the two languages to teach. However, during the first semester, most of the teaching is taught in Spanish, in order to facilitate the gradual adaptation of foreign students.

, of the 90 credits offered, 16 are taught in Catalan. In this sense, it is highly recommended to follow a course, such as those offered to UB Language Services or, before being a student, by different means (see the guide “Catalan Learning”)

The works of each subject or the final master's projects can be written in Catalan, or Spanish. Any other language, as it is not included in the Master's Verification Report, cannot be admitted.

The organization of the External Internships corresponds to the coordinator of the same that will ensure that the enrolled students contact those companies and / or institutions with which the master's degree maintains links. The admission of students by these companies and/or institutions is not the responsibility of the master's degree, which will always seek an alternative when necessary.

Master's degree students must carry out a research work equivalent to 10 ECTS credits and submit it for reading and defense before an evaluation committee between the last week of June and the first two of July (optionally, also in September). To perform the work, the following indications must be taken into account:

2. According to the assigned director, they will have to define and outline this proposed topic, which must meet the conditions of being totally unpublished and sufficient entity to be treated from the point of view of the investigation.

3. They must adjust the research procedures, bibliographic consultation, development and presentation of the work according to the field of research in which the subject is framed. The works can follow multidisciplinary paths because this is the basic orientation of the master. Whether it be history, sociology, anthropology, aesthetics, documentation or any of the branches of musicology, it must be in tune with the ordinary uses in these disciplines.

4. Once it has been drafted and submitted for reading, it will be done in the period mentioned. Therefore, it will be necessary from the beginning to have a very tight schedule to meet the deadlines.

5. If the research dedication forecasts do not predict that in the months of June-July the work will not be in a position to present, it is advisable not to enrol and leave it for the following course.

6. Given the nature of the master's degree, the possibility of completing Master's Final Projects of a performative nature is contemplated, without prejudice to the research part that bases it, and in the understanding that the master's degree does not have sufficient means to guarantee the performativity of the result.

For more information, see the Regulations of the Faculty's Master's Degree Final Projects.