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Máster Universitario en Patrimonio Cultural Dixital

Modality
In-person
Branch of knowledge
Arts and Humanities
Ambit of knowledge
Interdisciplinar.
School(s)
Faculty of Geography and History
Praza da Universidade, 1, 15703
Santiago de Compostela
881812585 (Conserxaría)
881812592 (Decanato)
zhisdeca [at] usc.gal
Campus
Santiago de Compostela
Coordinator
Xose Manoel Sanchez Sanchez
Contact
xosemanuel.sanchez [at] usc.es

O patrimonio e a cultura, nun sentido amplo, son dous dos elementos definitorios de Galicia e da Euro-rexión Suroeste europea; de acordo co seu impacto social, o valor dos recursos patrimoniais e culturais enténdese en primeiro lugar como un factor para promover a educación e a integración social nas respectivas comunidades.

Dentro do proceso de cambio derivado da transición ecolóxica e dixital en que nos atopamos, o patrimonio e a cultura veñen actuando como eixos chave para a diferenciación e incremento de valor engadido de sectores e industrias como o turismo, as industrias culturais e mesmo os videoxogos, entre outros, cunha forte taxa de crecemento actual e expectativa futura. En todos eles o patrimonio cultural dixital supón un substrato único con capacidade de atracción de novo talento e retención do capital humano do euro-rexión, clave no desenvolvemento futuro.

Duration: 2 academic years
RUCT code: 4318541
ECTS Number: 90
Seats number: 13

Dean or center director:
ANTONIO MIGUEZ MACHO

Title coordinator:
Xose Manoel Sanchez Sanchez
xosemanuel.sanchez [at] usc.es

Use languages:
Spanish, Galician

Coordinator university:
University of Santiago de Compostela

Partaker universities:
University of Santiago de Compostela University of A Coruña

Last accreditation date:
18/07/2023

Condiciones de terminación:

Obligatorias: 30
Optativas: 30
Prácticas externas 15
Trabajo fin de máster: 15
Total: 90

No se contemplan

Plan de estudos de 90 ECTS, estruturado do seguinte modo:

  • Obrigatorios 30
  • Optativos 30
  • Prácticas Externas 15
  • Traballo Fin de Máster 15

 

Heritage: concept and historical foundation

  • P5281101
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  • Compulsory Credits
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  • First Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Legal and policy instruments for heritage protection and management

  • P5281102
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  • Compulsory Credits
  •  
  • First Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Digital asset management and digital asset management

  • P5281103
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  • Compulsory Credits
  •  
  • First Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Preservation of cultural heritage

  • P5281104
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  • Compulsory Credits
  •  
  • First Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Technologies applied to heritage

  • P5281105
  •  
  • Compulsory Credits
  •  
  • First Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Communication and cultural marketing

  • P5281106
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  • Compulsory Credits
  •  
  • First Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Digital management of documentary and bibliographic heritage

  • P5281201
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Digital management of archaeological heritage

  • P5281202
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Digital management of artistic heritage

  • P5281203
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Digital management of intangible heritage

  • P5281204
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Digital management of photographic, audiovisual and musical heritage

  • P5281205
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Digital management of agro-ecological and landscape heritage

  • P5281206
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Digital management of geographic heritage

  • P5281207
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 5 Credits

Transmedia narratives applied to historical communication

  • P5281208
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 3 Credits

Heritage enhancement: fundamentals and techniques

  • P5281209
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 3 Credits

Innovation and sustainability in digital heritage projects

  • P5281210
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 3 Credits

Virtualisation and heritage recreation

  • P5281211
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 3 Credits

Reality capture and analysis

  • P5281212
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 3 Credits

Interactive products and social media management

  • P5281213
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 3 Credits

Sig and 3D Modelling

  • P5281214
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  • Elective Credits
  •  
  • Second Semester
  •  
  • 3 Credits

Internship

  • P5281107
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  • Compulsory Credits
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  • Work Placements in Companies for Degrees and Master's Degrees
  •  
  • 15 Credits

Master's dissertation

  • P5281108
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  • Compulsory Credits
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  • End of Degree Projects and End of Master's Degree Projects
  •  
  • 15 Credits

Poderán acceder ás ensinanzas oficiais de máster:

  • As persoas que estean en posesión dun título universitario oficial español.
  • Aquelas que teñan un título expedido por unha institución de educación superior do EEES que faculta no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de máster.
  • Os titulados conforme a sistemas educativos alleos ao EEES sen necesidade de homologación dos seus títulos, previa comprobación pola Universidade de que estes títulos acreditan un nivel de formación equivalente aos correspondentes títulos universitarios españois e que facultan no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de posgrao.

Among the skills desirable in students entering the training programme of this master's degree are the following:

- Interest in Heritage in a broad sense, its preservation, valorisation, dissemination, popularisation and scientific and technological advances.
- Basic skills in the use of new technologies.
- Capacity for abstraction, analysis, synthesis and logical reasoning.
- Ability to work in a team.
- Sense of organisation, attention to detail and practicality.
- Curiosity, imagination, creativity, innovation and entrepreneurial spirit.
- Sensitivity for the social impact and the promotion of the socio-economic development of the territory from a perspective of respect, integration and sustainability in the use of different types of resources.

The following knowledge is recommended:

- Art and Art History. General knowledge in humanities and cultural management. Relational and territorial knowledge and linguistic skills, especially in modern languages.
- Natural Sciences and Technology (graphic expression, computer science, the nature and characteristics of natural and biological processes).
- Legal and Social Sciences (those specific to the field).

Condiciones de terminación:

Obligatorias: 30
Optativas: 30
Prácticas externas 15
Trabajo fin de máster: 15
Total: 90

Además de la información ofrecida a los estudiantes de último curso por la Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, la Facultad de Geografía e Historia realizar una presentación específica de los másteres que se imparten en la Facultad en la que se cuenta con la participación de las personas que ejercen la coordinación, así como con una representación en su caso de estudiantes egresados.

Por otra parte, los másteres realizan actividades de presentación específicas una vez que comienza el curso académico, que se concretan en jornadas de bienvenida, conferencias inaugurales y presentación de los docentes y materias del título que se imparte. Estas actividades se coordinan por la comisión académica del máster en conexión con la Comisión de Calidad del Centro.

Access

Poderán acceder ás ensinanzas oficiais de máster:

1. As persoas que estean en posesión dun título universitario oficial español.
2. Aquelas que teñan un título expedido por unha institucion de educación superior do EEES que faculta no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de máster.
3. Os titulados conforme a sistemas educativos alleos ao EEES sen necesidade de homologación dos seus títulos, previa comprobación pola Universidade de que os ditos títulos acreditan un nivel de formación equivalente aos correspondentes títulos universitarios españois e que facultan no país expedidor do título para o acceso a ensinanzas de posgrao.

Admission

Modality: Specific criteria

Access qualifications:

-All degrees.

SELECTION CRITERIA:

1º Adequacy of the entrance qualification to the contents of the master's degree (max 20%).
2º Academic record (max 50%)
3º Motivated letter from the student and interview with the Academic Committee (between 15% and 35%).

Updated information at each enrolment call

The objectives of the syllabus are as follows:

- The Master in Digital Cultural Heritage aims to to train qualified experts in the construction, management and dissemination of digital heritage.
- The Master's student will be able to offer
solutions for the digital treatment of heritage in all its meanings.
- The courses taught in the Master's programme combine humanistic and technological knowledge in order to meet a growing and underserved need for human resources.
The training in this Master's Degree aims to contribute to the generation of an endogenous productive fabric in the Southwest Europe.

- Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context.

- Students are able to apply their acquired knowledge and problem-solving skills in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their field of study.

- Students are able to integrate knowledge and deal with the complexity of making judgements based on incomplete or limited information, including reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities associated with the application of their knowledge and judgements.

- Students are able to communicate their conclusions and the ultimate knowledge and rationale behind them to specialist and non-specialist audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.

- Students possess the learning skills that will enable them to continue studying in a largely self-directed or autonomous way.

- Build, manage and disseminate digital heritage and the digital treatment of heritage in all its meanings.
- Apply knowledge in the implementation of heritage projects in the digital environment.
- Adequately use the technological tools necessary for the acquisition, processing, management and dissemination of digital cultural heritage.
- Integrate communication skills oriented towards cultural marketing in entrepreneurial environments.
- Work in interdisciplinary teams in business, market and institutional areas of cultural management.
- Create original content in the field of cultural heritage, combining humanistic and technological knowledge.

- Adapt the use and transfer of knowledge to new situations derived from technological change.
- Actively face the resolution of problems in the social and market environment.
- Acquire an ethical commitment to the various forms of communication in digital environments.
- Understand the values of equality, environmental sustainability and the right to equal access to technological resources in the care of digital cultural heritage.

Mobility

La movilidad de los/as estudiantes está regulada a través del “Reglamento de intercambios interuniversitarios”. A través de la Oficina de Relaciones Exteriores se gestionan programas de intercambio tanto nacionales (SICUE), como europeos (ERASMUS) y extracomunitarios (intercambios con países de América Latina o países de habla inglesa):

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Internships

Las prácticas en empresa, de 15 créditos ECTS, constituyen uno de los pilares de la arquitectura docente del máster y cuenta con el aval de los clústeres empresariales de cada uno de los ámbitos desde su propia definición.

Las prácticas deben de facilitar a los alumnos los recursos y capacidades para que puedan desarrollar las destrezas precisas orientadas a la potencial valorización de activos digitales de base patrimonial a través de productos/servicios ad hoc. Y, así, los desarrollos generados en codirección con el tutor en la PYME constituyan una parte sustantiva del Trabajo Fin de Máster (TFM), indispensable para la evaluación final positiva.

El máster contempla un Trabajo Fin de Máster de 15 créditos ECTS. Se tendrá en consideración la capacidad para poner en práctica los contenidos teórico-instrumentales en un contexto sociolaboral determinado a través de un proyecto original de construcción, gestión y difusión del patrimonio cultural digital.

The contents of this page were updated on 05.08.2025.