Bachelor in Cultural Studies
- Grados
- Bachelor's Degrees
- Bachelor in Cultural Studies
- Duration
- 4 years (240 credits)
- Centre
- Language
- Bilingual
- Comments
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Vice Dean for Bachelor: David Conte Imbert
Presentation
The Bachelor’s Degree Program in Cultural Studies seeks to train professionals capable of understanding the growing complexity of today’s urban and cosmopolitan societies: social movements; leisure industries and cultural consumption as the basic economic engines; access to cultural property and goods; cultural factors in group management in all ambits; and the semantic complexity of messages in the information society.
This bachelor’s program, broadly extended in Anglo-Saxon countries, endows its students with the theoretical, analytical, and methodological tools necessary for pursuing their professions as analysts, creators, managers or activist in companies and institutions related to this sector and to cultural communication, as well as cultural management.
The Cultural Studies Bachelor’s Degree, to be taught for the first time in academic year 2019-2020, can be studied in the bilingual modality and offers curricular internships in the sector’s principal businesses and institutions.
Employability and profesional internships
UC3M has agreements with over 3000 companies and institutions in which students can undertake internships and access job openings.
A total of 93.4 % of graduates from this University enter the job market the first year after finishing their studies, according to the 2019 XXIV Estudio de Inserción Profesional (Professional Placement Study).
International Excellence
Program
- Language requirement: a B2 level of English language must be accredited before finishing the studies. More information.
Year 1 - Semester 1
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Cultural Anthropology | 6 | BC | |
Cultural dimensión of art | 6 | BC | |
Humanities courses I | 6 | BC | |
Information Skills | 3 | C | |
Introduction to cultural studies | 6 | C | |
Mass Media Theory | 6 | BC |
Year 1 - Semester 2
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Cultural Geography | 6 | BC | |
Culture in its historical dimensión | 6 | BC | |
Philosophy in History and Culture | 6 | BC | |
Humanities courses II | 3 | C | |
Theory of Representation | 6 | C | |
Writing and communication skills | 3 | C |
Year 2 - Semester 1
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Analysis of literary discourse | 6 | C | |
Communication and mediation theory | 6 | BC | |
Construction, transmission and reception of culture | 6 | C | |
Ethics and Culture | 6 | BC | |
Sociology of Culture | 6 | BC |
Year 2 - Semester 2
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Analysis of audio-visual discourse | 6 | C | |
Current tendencies in literary studies | 6 | BC | |
Rhetoric, Culture, and Mass Media | 6 | C | |
Social Groups and its cultural imaginaries | 6 | C | |
World cultural regions | 6 | C |
Year 3 - Semester 1
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Analysis of performative discourse | 6 | C | |
Cultural Industry | 6 | C | |
Policies of diversity | 6 | C | |
Processes of Modernization | 6 | C | |
Science and Culture | 6 | C |
Year 3 - Semester 2
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Analysis of Subcultures in Social Sciences | 6 | C | |
Digital Culture | 6 | C | |
Feminisms | 6 | C | |
Urban Studies | 6 | C | |
Electives: Recommended 6 credits | No data | No data | No data |
Year 4 - Semester 1
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Cultural policies and institutions | 6 | C | |
Culture, work and intelectual property | 6 | E | |
Race, ethnicity and post-colonial cultures | 6 | C | |
Religion and cultural construction | 6 | C | |
Written and visual culture | 6 | C | |
Electives: Recommended 6 credits | No data | No data | No data |
Year 4 - Semester 2
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Bachelor Thesis | 6 | BT | |
Globalization | 6 | C | |
Intermediate knowledge of Spreadsheets | 3 | C | |
Management and interpretation of cultural heritage | 6 | C | |
Soft Skills | 3 | C | |
Electives: Recommended 6 credits | No data | No data | No data |
Subjects | ECTS | TYPE | Language |
---|---|---|---|
Cultural History | 6 | E | |
History of Music | 6 | E | |
Inter-disciplinary seminar on diversity and cultural studies | 6 | E | |
Inter-disciplinary seminar on the city | 6 | E | |
Language and Society | 6 | E | |
Professional Intrenships | 6 | E |
TYPES OF SUBJECTS
BC: Basic Core
C: Compulsory
E: Electives
BT: Bachelor Thesis
Mobility
- Exchange programs
Exchange programs
The Erasmus programme permits UC3M first degree and post graduate students to spend one or several terms at one of the European universities with which UC3M has special agreements or take up an Erasmus Placement, that is a work placement or internship at an EU company. These exchanges are funded with Erasmus Grants which are provided by the EU and the Spanish Ministry of Education.
The non-european mobility program enables UC3M degree students to study one or several terms in one of the international universities with which the university has special agreements. It also has funding from the Banco Santander and the UC3M.
These places are offered in a public competition and are awarded to students with the best academic record and who have passed the language threshold (English, French, German etc..) requested by the university of destination.
- European Mobility
- Non-Eropean Mobility
Non- European Mobility
Profile and career opportunities
- Entry Profile
It is recommended that students entering this Degree have studied either the Baccalaureate in Humanities or the Baccalaureate in Social Sciences (or, where appropriate, equivalent Baccalaureate courses or similar in terms of the subjects studied when the student comes from other non-Spanish educational systems).
Personal attitudes of initiative, teamwork, personal organisation of work, capacity for abstraction, critical thinking and responsibility and interest in the practical application of knowledge to solve real problems are highly valued.
Finally, the University offers the degree in a bilingual option, which means that students must complete at least 120 ECTS (half of the ECTS of the degree) in English. Therefore, students must demonstrate a good level of linguistic competence in English equivalent to level B2 in the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, given that most subjects will be taught in English and students will be working with texts, materials, exercises, etc. entirely in English. Similarly, and given that the degree is taught in Spanish and English, non-Spanish-speaking students must accredit at least the same level in Spanish when taking the Spanish option.
- Graduate Profile
Graduates of the Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Studies must have a theoretical or practical interest in the various facets of contemporary society, but to which is added a greater sensitivity to the semantics and contents of the particular cultures that articulate social institutions. This is a student who is not entirely satisfied with the tools and theories of the social sciences, but who also does not consider the teachings of the more traditional disciplines of the humanities to be sufficient.
Secondly, a student who is an analyst, a theoretician, a creator, a manager and an activist. The degree proposed here also aspires to provide knowledge and tools with which to understand and provide an adequate response to these characteristic challenges of today's societies, without prejudice to recognising that the analytical procedures and academic rigour achieved by traditional disciplines must constitute a stimulus for the use of basic knowledge and methodological tools with which to solidly construct the new frameworks of creation and interpretation.
The bilingual nature of the proposed degree provides a further attractive and differentiating factor within the panorama of university studies in the Humanities in Spain and will notably increase the international mobility of students, which will also be favoured by the fact that it is a degree that already exists and is consolidated in a good number of European countries, as well as in North America and other regions, as will be explained in the following section of this report.
General skills of the Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Studies
Basic Skills
CB1 Que los estudiantes hayan demostrado poseer y comprender conocimientos en un área de estudio que parte de la base de la educación secundaria general, y se suele encontrar a un nivel que, si bien se apoya en libros de texto avanzados, incluye también algunos aspectos que implican conocimientos procedentes de la vanguardia de su campo de estudio.
CB2 Que los estudiantes sepan aplicar sus conocimientos a su trabajo o vocación de una forma profesional y posean las competencias que suelen demostrarse por medio de la elaboración y defensa de argumentos y la resolución de problemas dentro de su área de estudio.
CB3 Que los estudiantes tengan la capacidad de reunir e interpretar datos relevantes (normalmente dentro de su área de estudio) para emitir juicios que incluyan una reflexión sobre temas destacados de índole social, científica o ética.
CB4 Que los estudiantes puedan transmitir información, ideas, problemas y soluciones a un público tanto especializado como no especializado.
CB5 Que los estudiantes hayan desarrollado aquellas habilidades de aprendizaje necesarias para emprender estudios posteriores con un alto grado de autonomía.
General Skills
CG1 Que los estudiantes demuestren conocer las diversas acepciones del concepto de cultura, así como los principales enfoques con que éste ha sido abordado por las disciplinas humanas y sociales.
CG2 Que los estudiantes dominen la técnica del análisis cultural de cualquier fenómeno socio-cultural.
CG3 Que los estudiantes conozcan los principales movimientos socioculturales contemporáneos y tengan la capacidad de analizar las diferencias culturales entre diversas identidades (clase, religión, género, etnia ...).
CG4 Que los estudiantes sean capaces de identificar los diferentes espacios y prácticas de la cultura contemporánea así como su dimensión temporal y sus trayectorias históricas.
CG5 Que los estudiantes conozcan el sistema cultural actual y su funcionamiento .
CG6 Ser capaces de especificar los rasgos fundamentales que caracterizan las instituciones culturales públicas y privadas contemporáneas y describir los modelos más importantes de gestión
CG7 Saber analizar y comprender críticamente los elementos normativos, éticos y morales de las diferentes prácticas culturales.
CG8 Ser capaz de debatir y formular razonamientos críticos empleando para ello terminología precisa y recursos especializados, sobre los fenómenos culturales, utilizando tanto los conceptos y conocimientos de las diferentes disciplinas como las metodologías de análisis, paradigmas y conceptos de las Ciencias Sociales.
Transversal Skills
CT1 Ser capaz de exponer y redactar correctamente un tema o componer un discurso siguiendo un orden lógico, suministrando la información precisa y de acuerdo con las normas gramaticales y léxicas establecidas.
CT2 Ser capaz de evaluar la fiabilidad y calidad de la información y sus fuentes utilizando dicha información de manera ética, evitando el plagio, y de acuerdo con las convenciones académicas y profesionales del área de estudio.
CT3 Adquirir conocimientos básicos humanísticos que permitan completar el perfil formativo transversal del estudiante, así como demostrar una implicación crítica con la cultura y una sensibilidad específica con el patrimonio cultural.
CT4 Conocer y ser capaz de manejar habilidades interpersonales sobre iniciativa y responsabilidad, negociación, inteligencia emocional, etc. así como herramientas de cálculo que permitan consolidar las habilidades técnicas básicas que se requieren en todo ámbito profesional.
Specific Skills
CE1 Saber diferenciar los rasgos transversales que permiten diferenciar los periodos de desarrollo de la cultura contemporánea desde el siglo XIX y situar las escuelas de pensamiento y arte que se dan en estos periodos.
CE2 Comprender las diferencias de las aproximaciones a la cultura: antropológicas, filosóficas, sociológicas, históricas o geográficas.
CE3 Comprender la influencia sobre las formas culturales que tienen los medios de difusión de la cultura, tanto en lo que se refiere a los formatos (imagen o palabra) como en lo que se refiere a su modalidad material y tecnológica, así como comprender la dialéctica mediación-representación-cultura.
CE4 Conocer las características de las formas representacionales y de sus aspectos retóricos.
CE5 Comprender las características que comparten y diferencian los discursos literarios, audio-visual y performativo.
CE6 Ser capaces de especificar los rasgos fundamentales que caracterizan las instituciones culturales públicas y privadas contemporáneas y describir los modelos más importantes de gestión
CE7 Conocer y comprender la génesis, evolución y actualidad de los grandes movimientos socio-culturales contemporáneos.
CE8 Conocer las genealogías y materializaciones de la cultura, tanto en su generalidad como a través de algunas de sus principales manifestaciones.
CE9 Conocer y comprender la diversidad cultural del planeta, así como la dialéctica que se establece entre esta diversidad y los procesos de contacto intercultural asociados a la globalización.
CE10 Saber caracterizar los procesos de modernización y globalización en lo que afectan a la cultura contemporánea
CE11 Conocer las características, dinámicas y modelos de las industrias culturales, de sus formas institucionales, y de sus formatos específicos.
CE12 Saber analizar los elementos de la política cultural de las instituciones públicas.
CE13 Saber analizar, elaborar y defender de forma individual un problema del ámbito disciplinar del Grado aplicando los conocimientos, habilidades, herramientas y estrategias adquiridas o desarrolladas en el mismo.
Learning Outcomes of the Bachelor’s Degree in Cultural Studies
RA1. Haber adquirido conocimientos avanzados y demostrado una comprensión de los aspectos teóricos y prácticos y de la metodología de trabajo en las diferentes disciplinas de estudio en el ámbito los estudios culturales con una profundidad que llegue hasta la vanguardia del conocimiento;
RA2. Aplicar los conocimientos adquiridos, la comprensión de estos y sus capacidades a la resolución de problemas complejos y/o especializados en el ámbito del análisis cultural, incluyendo el ser capaces de analizar con una perspectiva cultural diferentes fenómenos sociales.
RA3. Tener la capacidad de recopilar e interpretar datos e informaciones sobre las que fundamentar sus conclusiones incluyendo, cuando sea preciso y pertinente, la reflexión sobre asuntos de índole social, científica o ética en el ámbito de los estudios culturales
RA4. Ser capaces de desenvolverse en situaciones complejas o que requieran el desarrollo de nuevas soluciones tanto en el ámbito académico como laboral o profesional dentro de su campo de estudio;
RA5. Saber comunicar a todo tipo de audiencias (especializadas o no) de manera clara y precisa, conocimientos, metodologías, ideas, problemas y soluciones en el ámbito de su campo de estudio;
RA6. Ser capaces de identificar sus propias necesidades formativas en su campo de estudio y entorno laboral o profesional y de organizar su propio aprendizaje con un alto grado de autonomía en todo tipo de contextos (estructurados o no).
RA7 Ser capaces de reconocer las demandas y retos sociales que se plantean en el ámbito de la cultura, a fin de dar respuestas creativas e innovadoras.
- External internships
External internships
This is a selection in which students of this degree can do their internships:
- Departamento de Visitas del Palacio de la Bolsa de Madrid
- Fundación Largo Caballero
- Unidad de Funcionarios Internacionales del Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, Unión Europea y Cooperación
- Biblioteca Nacional de España
- Arrebato Libros
- Metalocus
- Career opportunities
Career opportunities
The Degree in Cultural Studies aims to train profesionals capable of understanding the growing complexity of urban and cosmopolitan societies: social movements; leisure industries and cultural consumption as basic drivers of the economy; access to cultural goods; cultural factors in the management of goups in all areas and the semantic complexity of messages in the information society
They will be able develop their work as:
- Analyst, creators, managers in companies and institution related to the industry and cultural communication, as well as cultural management
- Research and dissemination of knowledge
- Management of education and cultural institutions
- Research in arts and humanities
- Intercultural relations and cultural diversity management (Cultural mediation tasks
- Territorial development and international cooperation
Study in english
Bilingual studies
This degree courses in English and Spanish. In the courses taught in English there aren't groups in Spanish, so there isn't possibility to choose the language in which you will carry out your studies. You must take into mind that:
- In groups in English, all works (classes, drills, exercises, tests, etc.) will be conducted in English.
- Along the first year, it must be established an English B2 level, performing a test, providing one of the supported official certificates or any way determined by the university. In the first weeks of the course will inform students how they can prove their level.
- After completing the studies, in your DS will appear a mention of bilingual studies.
Schedules
Quality
Year of implementation: 2018
Places Offered:
- Getafe Campus: 30
Official Code: 2503917
Bachelor's Degree Quality indicators
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