Universidade Lusófona do Porto

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Duration / Confered Degree / ECTS

2 Years (4 Semester) / Master / ECTS

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Objectives

The Master of Audiovisual Communication and Media (MCAM) has as general objectives the training of professionals with higher qualifications within the professional areas fitted with a set of conceptual and theoretical tools essential for the analysis and investigation of audiovisual communication processes and in modern digital media, including the Internet. This master is intended to further the artistic and technical expertise of graduates in Digital Arts and Audiovisual Communication and MultiMedia and / or professionals in the field of media and multimedia production, to create and develop the cultural foundations and experience to enable a theorization of this kind of activity .
The curriculum of this course constitutes a contribution to professionals from different fields to develop national strategic sectors that include public and private institutions, the cultural and creative industries, the producers of audiovisual content and multimedia

Knowledge, abilities and skills to be acquired

A holder of Master in Multimedia and Audiovisual Communication is enabled to develop critical thinking and the
ability to design, production and realization in the field of experimental video production, television production or multimedia content.
The Master in Audiovisual Communication and Multimedia will strengthen and expand cultural, technical and creative competencies of the graduates and / or professionals in the realization and application of audiovisual media to different areas of content production and social action from educational to organizational, artistic, or entertaining. The Master allows the development of critical thinking and the ability to make the conception, production and implementation in the field of experimental video production, television production and multimedia content from the perspective of cross-disciplinary knowledge and exploitation of new media.

Research

There is in the School of Communication, Arts and Information Technology, a research unit CICANT (Center for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and new technologies), which is accredited to the FCT by the number of unit No. 722. In the latest assessment of FCT this unit had a fair rating that was the subject of protest to the extent that this unit now owns many of the projects approved by the FCT in the area.(PTDC/CCI/70893/2006) MEDIACULT Cultura participativa e uso dos media, 2007 2009; - Participative Culture and use of the media, 2007 2009. The Cicant, with 11 publications in international magazines with peer review, contributes to the stimulation of research activities over forty doctoral researchers.

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Calendário 2012
Academic Calendar:
1st Year
1º sem.: Jan. to June 2012
2º sem: Sept. 2012 to Jan. 2013

Begining of classes - 6 Jan. 2012

Scientific Areas

Áudio-visuais e produção dos media;
Artes;
Artes - programas não classificados noutra área de formação;

Study Plan

1st Year / Core Curriculum		ECTS
Visual Culture	1º Semestre	6
	1º Semestre	6
	1º Semestre	6
	1º Semestre	6
	1º Semestre	6
History and Theory of Video	2º Semestre	6
	2º Semestre	6
	2º Semestre	6
	2º Semestre	6
	2º Semestre	6
2nd Year / Core Curriculum		ECTS
Research and Investigation Methods	1º Semestre	5
	1º Semestre	20
Thematic Seminars	2º Semestre	5
	2º Semestre	30

Teaching staff

Lecturer	Academic Degrees	Dedication time
António Manuel João Preto	Doctorate	Part-time
Carla Maria Cadete Vieira Ramos Melo	Doctorate	Part-time
João Domingos Pinho Alves De Sousa	Master	Full-time
João Sousa Cardoso	Doctorate	Full-time
Paulo João Nunes Zsoldos Heitlinger	Doctorate	Full-time