I study Licenciature in Art History at Universidad de Chile since 2017, and I'm in my last year. The curriculum principally includes art history subjects (occidental and latinoamerican art), esthetics ( a branch of philosophy), museum and collection, historography (investigation methods) and semiotic / hermeneutic notions. The career lasts 4 years, but I think it should be extend 1 year more because it's almost impossible to write a thesis in the fourth year with a proffesional internship and four/five subjects between. Most of students have to pay an extra year, even those who had gratuity. They should extend the official curriculum, so students would not lose those important benefits.
Also I think the workload it's too much, because we have a lot of subject until the end, and not all of them are necessary. We have seven signatures per semester till fourth year, and then you're supposed to write you thesis with all difficulties mentioned.
The actual building supposed to be a temporal location, but plastic arts and art history have been like fourthy years there, since the original building (that was a museum in Santiago) was burned. The installations are so precarius, specially for plastic arts career, that we had to protest so many times in the past to change machines and tools, but the school still looks in a lame state. I would like to move to another building, in a united art faculty with other careers like dance and musical interpretation, with the complete infrastructure that all our career needs. I think we deserve it.
I think it's very unfortunate that in all careers students have to pay an extra year.
ResponderBorrarbye!!
Your career is very intresting ! i would like to learn about the subjects you mentioned, though is so sad the thing about the workloads and the extra year.
ResponderBorrarOne day we will have an awesome united Art Faculty!
Take care :)