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EUROPEAN MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN EUROPEAN HERITAGE, DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE INFORMA

EUROPEAN MASTER’S PROGRAMME IN EUROPEAN HERITAGE, DIGITAL MEDIA AND THE INFORMATION SOCIETY STUDY GUIDE DECEMBER 2007 EuroMACHS Study Guide . 2 1. WELCOME......................................................................................................................................... 3 2. THE EUROMACHS NETWORK .................................................................................................... 4 3. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES OF THE MASTER’S DEGREE ........................................................ 5 4. OVERALL STRUCTURE OF THE STUDY PROGRAMME...................................................... 7 5. REQUIREMENTS AND ENROLMENT....................................................................................... 10 6. UNDERSTANDING YOUR OPTIONS (SECOND SEMESTER, THESIS THEME).............. 11 UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA................................................................................................................... 11 UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE .................................................................................................................. 11 UNIVERSITY OF TURKU....................................................................................................................... 12 UNIVERSITY OF LECCE........................................................................................................................ 12 7. THE ON-LINE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT ........................................................................... 13 8. STUDY AND ASSESSMENT.......................................................................................................... 14 9. INTERNSHIPS AND THESIS ........................................................................................................ 17 10. GETTING SUPPORT, CONTACTS, WEBSITES. .................................................................... 18 11. COURSES OFFERED AT EACH INSTITUTION..................................................................... 19 12. ACADEMIC STAFF ...................................................................................................................... 35 EuroMACHS Study Guide . 3 1. Welcome The Universities of Coimbra, Cologne, Turku and Salento proudly announce the launch of their innovative new Master’s programme in European Heritage, Multimedia and the Information Society, open to students from Europe and the rest of the world. The programme is called EuroMACHS, which stands for Europe, Digital Media, Arts and Cultural Heritage Studies, the concepts that lie at the heart of this endeavour. EuroMACHS addresses new needs of the labour market with an approach that is based on interdisciplinarity, diversity and convergence. Drawing upon high levels of expertise from different disciplines of the Humanities and Information Science, it provides a diverse academic environment that spans four countries, while converging in a project-oriented approach to learning. After a long planning process that started in 2003, EuroMACHS finally accepted its first intake of students in the academic year 2006/2007, with the support of the European Union through the Socrates programme. EuroMACHS innovates because it addresses a major issue that has, till now, impeded the emergence of a healthy and creative content industry – namely the separation that has traditionally existed in Higher Education between the Humanities on the one hand (which expose students to areas of rich cultural content and methods of accessing, understanding and elaborating such content), and Technology on the other (which introduces students to the new technologies and endows them with the skills that can enable them to become producers of information objects). By offering a dual specialization in these different areas, with the added focus of effective project development and management, this programme not only innovates but also provides a stimulating environment for students, training a much-needed new type of professional for the industry. All those involved in the creation of this Master’s programme share a profound belief that the Humanities and Information Technology have a exciting future, full of opportunities for creativity and high-impact achievement, much of which has yet to be realized. We are sure that this approach will appeal to highly-motivated students that enjoy challenges and are not afraid to venture across academic and cultural borders. We therefore welcome anyone that shares this vision to join us on this project. Joaquim Carvalho Coordinator EuroMACHS Study Guide . 4 2. The EuroMACHS network EuroMACHS (European Digital Media, Arts and Cultural Heritage Studies) is a university network that combines the study of the European cultural heritage with current developments in ITC and Digital Media and their commercial implications, in order to respond to some of the challenges of producing new content for the Information Society. EuroMACHS started off as a partnership between the Universities of Coimbra (Portugal), Cologne (Germany), Turku (Finland) and Lecce (Italy). Each partner has extensive experience in creating innovative links between the Humanities and Digital Media, particularly in the areas of Multimedia production, Digital Libraries, e-learning and Historical-Geographical Information Systems. EuroMACHS fosters ongoing connections with institutions related to its core interests, such as museums, libraries, government bodies in the area of cultural heritage, companies, and other stakeholders. Contacts also exist with other academic institutions that allow temporary mobility, staff exchanges and external review of procedures. This wider network (known as the “friends of EuroMACHS”) provides advice, internship opportunities, grants and general guidance to the academic activities of the partner institutions, helping to foster an environment that offers creative challenges to both students and academic staff alike. EuroMACHS Study Guide . 5 3. Aims and objectives of the Master’s degree Information Technology and Communications have an important role to play in the economic and social development of our societies. One of the central problems of today's Information Society is the gap between the rapid evolution of technology and the much slower pace of production of new content for the emerging media. The programme centres on the perceived need for a new type of professional - a "frontier actor" capable of bridging the gap between the vast repository of content provided by Humanistic knowledge (especially History and Cultural Heritage Studies) with the new possibilities opened up by the new media (Internet sites, digital repositories, computer games, historical-geographic information systems, etc). This new type of professional will not only bring a dual awareness of the Humanistic and Technological components of digital content production, but will also present honed general skills in project management, organization, complex information processing and communication. The rationale governing the programme intersects with several major European concerns: • the creation of the European Higher Education Area (by bringing together diverse and high quality academic traditions and experiences); • the focus on heritage, European history and cultural diversity (by providing an environment where new ways of harvesting and disseminating such information will be discovered); • the emphasis on the new information society (without being limited to technological aspects, it attempts to bridge the gap between this and existing contents and traditions in an original way); • an original way to bring together the humanistic tradition and the ITC area. • the valuing of Humanities degrees (by combining interdisciplinary knowledge and high-level general skills); • the emphasis on content production, one of the key factors in the success of the information and knowledge society defined in the Lisbon strategy. Main competences/learning outcomes to be provided by the Master’s programme: • An overview of Europe's history and heritage, with a focus on cultural and artistic aspects through time, and their links with world heritage. The main purpose is to encourage a sense of diversity, while developing a notion of the major European periods that structure our common heritage (e.g. artistic styles, main literary movements, etc.). Students will be able to concentrate on specific contents and relate them to the common European heritage; • An overview of local/regional/national history and heritage (similar to the previous objective, but at the local/regional/national level). Students will be able to focus on specific contexts and relate them to the European heritage as a whole; • An overview of technological possibilities as a means of expression (Web, DVD, CD-ROM, games, mobile technologies, etc). Students will learn about EuroMACHS Study Guide . 6 the potential, limitations, costs and skills required for different technological solutions; • Specific competences related to the production of content for the new media, including: writing for the digital public; structuring and organizing information in the new media; awareness of the requirements necessary for texts and other types of information, design and functionality. Students will have the opportunity to produce or manage the production content for the new media; • An awareness of the problems related to intellectual property rights within the context of management issues related to cultural heritage and the production of content. Students will acquire a very high level of general skills, particularly in project management and team work, though also including financing, budgeting and marketing. EuroMACHS Study Guide . 7 4. Overall Structure of the Study Programme EuroMACHS is a two-year programme (120 ECTS). The first year is dedicated to seminars, lectures, web-based and methodological courses. The second year is mainly dedicated to a project or thesis. The true challenge of designing a joint curriculum lies in combining the different areas in the best possible way, particularly in view of the two-year limitation. Thus, students are encouraged to concentrate on a given field, while at the same time taking advantage of the opportunities offered by the curriculum to gain exposure to areas that were not their core choice. Another important aspect of the Master’s course is the development of not only specialized transversal competences, but also high-level general skills, such as project management; the ability to work in an international context; teamwork, and communication skills. This can only be achieved by practical work and project-based learning. EuroMACHS provides an integrated approach to these objectives through four main strategies: • Students spend their first semester at a “home” university, where they attend presential seminars specific to that institution, while at the same time participating in a common online seminar. This gives them the opportunity to communicate, share knowledge and cooperate on projects and tasks with students from other institutions. • In the second semester students move to a “host” university where they attend specialized seminars in that institution’s specific area of expertise. • During the second year, students concentrate mainly on the production of a Master’s thesis, normally done at their home university. Dissertations that uploads/Litterature/ study-guide 52 .pdf