Philosophy and Arts Specialization courses

Philosophy and Arts

Specialization courses

Specialization in Cultural Administration
Specialization in Industrial Social Sciences
Specialization in Didactics
Specialization in Education of Educators
Specialization in Policies and Management of Science and Technology
Specialization in International Migration Policies
Specialization in Writing and reading processes.
Specialization in Children Education
Specialization in Argentine History
Interdisciplinary Specialization in Social Issues of Childhood and Adolescence

Master degrees

MA in Cultural Administration
MA in Discourse Analysis
MA in Social Anthropology
MA in Industrial Social Sciences
MA in Didactics
MA in Classical Studies
MA in Studies of Latin-American and Argentine Theatre and Cinema
MA in Applied Ethics
MA in Education of Educators
MA in Spanish and Latin-American Literatures
MA in Policies and Management of Science and Technology
MA in Environmental and Territorial Policies
MA in International Migration Policies
MA in Processes of Regional Integration - MERCOSUR
MA in Public Health


Doctorate

Doctorate of the University of Buenos Aires


Specialization in Cultural Administration

General information

Director: Graciela Fernández Toledo
Degree: Specialist in Cultural Administration
Approximate duration: 2 years
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puán St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext. 104, 105,166, 188, 189/ 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives

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To propose high level training in cultural administration considered from a polyvalent
perspective.
To allow for future professionals of the area of culture to bear strategic responsibilities in both
public and private cultural institutions.
To foster the development of coordination, negotiation and decision making skills.
To encourage the interchange of regional experiences and of different cultural areas so as to
foster the design and execution of cooperation and integration plans.
To train cultural administrators in order to achieve an efficient handling of economic, human and
material resources available within an organization.

Syllabus

Leveling: Introduction to accounting methods and techniques. Fundamental principles of
business administration. Legal frame. Introduction to public and private law.
Compulsory subjects: First year: Culture sociology. Culture economy. Institutional frame and
cultural policies. Administration of cultural companies I. Cultural legislation. Cultural Marketing.
Patrimonial management. Second years: Administration of cultural companies II. Cultural
legislation. Management of cultural projects and productions. Management of human resources.
Cultural patronage and sponsorship techniques.
Optional subjects: Visual arts. Cultural industries. Show business. Audiovisual production.
Means of communication.
Optional seminars: Sponsorship techniques. Institutional communication and image.
International cultural interchanges. International cooperation. New technologies. Cultural
communication and marketing. Shows and audiences. Cultural decentralization. Production of
festivals. Cultural tourism. Cultural policies. Cultural legislation.
NB: Other seminars may be incorporated concerning topics proposed by the MA Committee.

Specialization in Didactics

General information

Director: Alicia R.W. de Camilloni
Degree: Specialist in Didactics
Approximate duration: 416 hours and 192 more hours for the specialization
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puán St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext. 104, 105,166, 188, 189/ 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives

To provide high quality academic and professional training in didactics.
Graduates are expected to achieve:
Acquaintance with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches and their relations
Capacity to investigate within the specialty in different theoretical and methodological
approaches.
Capacity to work as specialists in the area with critical, creative and transformative sense.
Capacity to generate reflexive proposals for pedagogic practices from a critical perspective.

Syllabus

Seminars: Contemporary didactic trends. Theory of learning. Epistemology of didactics. Theory
of the curriculum. Analysis of teaching practices. Students must choose one seminar from:
Socio-politic problems of education and Institutional conditions of didactic interventions.

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Orientations: Students must choose one orientation for attending the three seminars.
Theory of the curriculum: History of the curriculum. University curriculum. Suggested in other
orientations: Evaluation of educational projects and programs. Specific didactics of discipline I.
Educational technology: technology, culture and knowledge. Theories of teaching and learning
in the design and analysis of didactic material. Suggested in other orientations: Evaluation of
educational projects and programs. Specific didactics of discipline I.
Evaluation: Evaluation of educational projects and programs. Learning evaluation. Suggested in
other orientations: University curriculum. Theories of teaching and learning in the design and
analysis of didactic material. Specific didactics of discipline I.
Specific didactics of discipline: Specific didactics of discipline I. Specific didactics of discipline II.
Suggested in other orientations: Evaluation of educational projects and programs. Theories of
teaching and learning in the design and analysis of didactic materials.
General didactics: three seminars chosen in three different orientations.

Specialization in Education of Educators

General information

Director: Marta Souto
Degree: Specialist in Education of Educators
Approximate duration: a minimum of 512 hours
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puán St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext. 104, 105,166, 188, 189/ 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives

To provide academic and professional training in the specialization in education of educators. It
is expected the achievement of: acquaintance with theoretical and methodological approaches
and their relations; qualifications to analyze the educational situations in its diverse dimensions;
capacity to analyze one’s own teaching trajectory and the implications of trainers and trainees
on it; specific skills for the analysis of research in the area; capacity to work as specialists in the
area; ability to generate reflexive, innovative, and critical proposals for planning, execution and
evaluation of training projects and practices.

Syllabus

The topics to be developed are grouped into three cores that answer the main problems which
educators of educators need to know about, critically reflect on, analyze and get training in.
A. Problems of education
Seminars: 1. Introductory cycle. 2. Pedagogy of education. 3. The situation of education. 4.
Policies and systems of education.
B. Teaching mechanisms and techniques.
1. Seminar-workshop: Teaching groups (two compulsory workshops per student, to be chosen
among six that will be offered in the program). Seminar. Workshop 1 and 2.
2. Seminar-workshop: Technology in teaching (Workshop 1 and 2)
3. Optional workshops: Teaching projects ( there will be workshops for each of the three areas
of teaching). Evaluation of teaching projects. Analysis of training practices. Institutional
evaluation of teaching. Internship: Level 1: Observation of teaching practices. Level 2:
Observation, execution and evaluation of practices. Reflection groups (four levels). Tutoring.
Consultations. Professional memory. Workshop. Consultation.

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Specialization in Writing and reading processes.

General information

Director: Elivira N de Arnoux
Degree: Specialist in Reading and Writing Processes.
Approximate duration: 4 terms
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puan St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext.: 104,105, 166, 188 and 189 / 4433-5925
e-mail: elvira@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives

The main aim of the course is to promote the various flexible communicative and cognitive
competences which are appropriate for the performance of different practices and new social
demands.
The course’s objectives are to provide training in the design, execution and evaluation of
pedagogic project in the area of writing and reading; to provide advice to educational institutions
of different levels; to advice on the elaboration of didactic materials; to coordinate reading and
writing workshops in the different levels of formal education and in the various instances of non-
formal education

Syllabus

A. Seminars: First term: Cognitive models of comprehension and production of written
texts. Textual models. Social practices of reading and writing. Second term: Teaching
and learning processes through oral interaction. Textual genesis and genetic criticism.
Narrating. Third term: Reading and writing processes in small children. Theory of
argumentation. Fourth term: Problematic of linguistic contact in education. Theory of
interpretation.
B. Workshops students must choose two workshops: Workshop on reading and writing in
primary school. Workshop on reading and writing in adolescents and adults. Workshop
on academic text writing. Workshop on hypertextual reading and production.


Specialization in Children Education

General information

Director: Patricia Sarle
Degree: Specialist in Children Education
Approximate duration: 432 hours
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puan St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext.: 104,105, 166, 188 and 189 / 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

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Objectives

For students to:
Understand the multiple approaches and perspectives from political, social, cultural,
psychological, pedagogic and didactic dimensions that will allow them to characterize children
education.
Recognize problematic, contradictions, contemporary breaks and continuities and their
incidence in children education.
Resignify the conceptions of childhood and family and their relations with educational and social
institutions.
Analyze critically and build problematic and proposals in which macro social and micro
institutional influences and institutional educational practices are articulated.
Acquire a theoretical background that will allow them to coordinate, sustain, supervise and
evaluate projects and practices developed in educational institutional and social organizations.

Syllabus

The course is organized in three thematic axes:

Axis 1. Sociopolitical problems in children education
Axis 2: Approaches to learning
Axis 3: orientations for pedagogic action in children education.

Compulsory seminars and common to both orientations:

Axis 1: Current tends in children education. School and communitarian organizations for
assistance to young children. Children education, policies and social problems.
Axis 2: Theories of development and learning in early years. Socialization and culture in
childhood.
Axis 3: Evaluation in children education. Educational actions in kindergarten : curricular design
and development.

a. Orientation in maternal education: compulsory seminars

Axis 1: Social context and changes in the conceptions of childhood and family.
Axis 2: One seminar to be chosen between: a. The language and development of children; b.
Games and school learning in children education.
Axis 3: Educational action in maternal kindergarten / Maternal schools: educational practices
and care.
Workshop: Teaching strategies and practices for taking care of small children.

b. Orientation in Management of Institutions for children education: compulsory seminars
Axis 1: Axis 1: Social context and changes in the conceptions of childhood and family.
Axis 2: One seminar to be chosen between: a. The language and development of children; b.
Games and school learning in children education.
Axis 3: One seminar to be chosen between: a. Educational action in maternal kindergarten /
Maternal education: educational practices and care; b. Contributions of disciplinary didactics in
children education
Workshop: Institutional analysis of institutions fro children education.


Specialization in Argentine History

General information

Director: Juan Suriano
Degree Specialist in Argentine History
Approximate duration: 4 terms
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

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Contact information

Address: 430 Puan St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext.: 104,105, 166, 188 and 189 / 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives

To provide professional qualifications specialized in Argentine history to university graduates
who work or wish to work in the area of history.
Taking this general objective into consideration, the objectives of all the areas of knowledge are:
a. For students to have access to the analysis and discussion of the new theoretical
alternatives, the new debates and most recent lines of research developed i the historic and
graphic production
b. For students to get training in the analysis of specific problems of Argentine history,
particularly, those in which research has proved more dynamic lately.
c. Promote the development of research in topics or periods of contemporary argentine history
less taken into account.

Syllabus

The areas that make the specialization course are the following:

Problems of political history. Problems of social history. Problems of economic history.
Problems of historiography. Cultural studies. Genre studies. Special histories: they include
diverse histories: (for example: Education history, Art history, Science and technique history)


MA in Cultural Administration

General information

Director: Graciela Fernández Toledo
Degree: MA of the University of Buenos Aires in Cultural Administration
Approximate duration: 2 years
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puan St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext.: 104,105, 166, 188 and 189 / 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives

To propose high level training in cultural administration considered from a polyvalent
perspective.
To allow for future professionals of the area of culture to bear strategic responsibilities in both
public and private cultural institutions; as well as to carry out research and teaching projects.
To provide a theoretical and methodological frame to design, evaluate and implement cultural
policies and projects.
To stimulate skills for the analysis and evaluation of cultural organizations, so as to propose
new forms of management and solutions to the problems faced by such activities.

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To encourage the interchange of regional experiences and of different cultural areas so as to
foster the design and execution of cooperation and integration plans.
To push the development of research aimed at delimiting the theoretical field and analyzing the
discipline critically; as well as the formulation of new approaches.
To allow for the analysis and reflection oriented to an adequate education of educators.

Syllabus

Leveling: Introduction to accounting methods and techniques. Fundamental principles of
business administration. Legal frame. Introduction to public and private law.
First year: Culture sociology. Culture economy. Institutional frame and cultural policies.
Administration of cultural companies I. Cultural legislation. Cultural Marketing. Patrimonial
management. Thesis workshop I. Seminars: Quantitative methods of study. Cultural policies.
Cultural legislation.

Second year: Administration of cultural companies II. Management of cultural projects and
productions. Management of human resources. Cultural patronage and sponsorship techniques.
Visual arts. Cultural industries. Show business. Audiovisual production. Means of
communication. Thesis workshop II. Seminars: Audience analysis. Means of communication II.

Optional seminars: Sponsorship techniques. Institutional communication and image.
International cultural interchanges. International cooperation. New technologies. Cultural
communication and marketing. Shows and audiences. Cultural decentralization. Production of
festivals. Cultural tourism. Cultural policies. Cultural legislation.
NB: Other seminars may be incorporated concerning topics proposed by the MA Committee.


MA in Discourse Analysis

General information

Director: Elvira N. de Arnoux
Degree: MA of the University of Buenos Aires in Discourse Analysis
Approximate duration: 2 years
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puan St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext.: 104,105, 166, 188 and 189 / 4433-5925
e-mail: elvira@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives

To ensure a specific training in the analysis and comprehension of the discursive dimension of
those activities, behaviors and products in which languages play a predominant role, and to
make the articulation of textual productions with social and historic factors explicit.
To provide specialized training in Discourse Analysis and train students with excellence for
research, teaching and professional development in such area, so that they will be able to work
efficiently in those fields that require experts in Discourse Analysis.
To nourish the university and scientific-technologic system with teachers and researchers
updated in the area of discourse analysis.

Syllabus

Introductory course: Introduction to Discourse Analysis
The regular seminars are organized in four areas:

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Discursive practices area: Interaction analysis (verbal and non-verbal). Reading (reading of
texts and images). Writing (writing systems, speaking-writing relation). Reformulation practices.
Discursive devices area: Argumentation. Enunciation. Description. Explanation/Exposition.
Genre and Institutions area: Political discourse. Legal discourse. Scientific discourse. Literary
discourse. Advertising discourse. Journalist discourse. Audiovisual discourses.
Discourse Theories area: Theory of the subject. Theory of ideology. Theory of interpretation.
Narrating. Poetics. Intensive seminars or internships.
Thesis seminar. MA Thesis.

MA in Social Anthropology

General information

Director: Susana Margulis / Maria Rosa Neufeld
Degree: MA of the University of Buenos Aires in Social Anthropology
Approximate duration: 2 years
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puan St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext.: 104,105, 166, 188 and 189 / 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives
To provide instruments that will allow students to carry out socio cultural diagnosis to contribute
to the design of public policies, the management of projects and the academic research.
To form professionals that have conceptual and methodological tools at their disposal for the
development of research jobs in different topics of social anthropology.
To provide tools for the insertion of graduates in different professional activities linked to the
management of the social problematic, both from the governmental and non-governmental
area.
To train human resources who consolidate their professional career in the context of the
lineaments developed by the Social Anthropology Section of the Institute of Anthological
Sciences (Faculty of Art, University of Buenos Aires)
To provide the tools for the insertion of professionals in bilateral projects with different academic
centers in the country, the region and the world, so as to strengthen the spaces of interchange
and integrate the local development of the discipline to the contemporary lines of debate and
work.

Syllabus

Area I: Theoretical problems

Theoretical problems I: Anthropology of social structures and processes.
Theoretical problems II: Theories of social conflict and inequity.
Theoretical problems III: Anthropology, ideology and representation.

Area II: Thematic Seminars
Body, health, daily life. Intercultural issues and education in contexts of inequity. Violence,
bureaucracy and demands of justice. Ethnicities and territories in redefinition. Culture and
territory. Contemporary cultural patrimonies and processes. Rural and regional problematic.
Science. Technology, contemporary world. Memory and uses of the past. Genre problems.

Area III: Thesis Workshop

Three Thesis workshops oriented to writing the MA Thesis.

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Thesis workshops I and II: determining the topic and the problem for investigation.
Reinforcement of previous theoretical and methodological training. Follow up of research tasks.
First stage in the writing of the Thesis.
Thesis workshop III: Thesis writing.

MA in Didactics

General information

Director: Alicia R. W. de Camilloni
Degree: MA of the University of Buenos Aires in Didactics
Approximate duration: a minimum of 768 hours
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puan St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext.: 104,105, 166, 188 and 189 / 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives

To provide academic and professional training

To provide high quality academic and professional training in didactics.
Graduates are expected to achieve:
Acquaintance with diverse theoretical and methodological approaches and their relations
Capacity to investigate within the specialty in different theoretical and methodological
approaches.
Capacity to work as specialists in the area with critical, creative and transformative sense.
Capacity to generate reflexive proposals for pedagogic practices from a critical perspective

Syllabus

Seminars: Contemporary didactic trends. Theory of learning. Epistemology of didactics. Theory
of the curriculum. Analysis of teaching practices. Students must choose one seminar from:
Socio-politic problems of education and Institutional conditions of didactic interventions.
Orientations: Students must choose one orientation for attending the three seminars.
Theory of the curriculum: History of the curriculum. University curriculum. Suggested in other
orientations: Evaluation of educational projects and programs. Specific didactics of discipline I.
Educational technology: technology, culture and knowledge. Theories of teaching and learning
in the design and analysis of didactic material. Suggested in other orientations: Evaluation of
educational projects and programs. Specific didactics of discipline I.
Evaluation: Evaluation of educational projects and programs. Learning evaluation. Suggested in
other orientations: University curriculum. Theories of teaching and learning in the design and
analysis of didactic material. Specific didactics of discipline I.
Specific didactics of discipline: Specific didactics of discipline I. Specific didactics of discipline II.
Suggested in other orientations: Evaluation of educational projects and programs. Theories of
teaching and learning in the design and analysis of didactic materials.
General didactics: three seminars chosen in three different orientations.
Workshop to provide support in the elaboration of the Thesis

MA in Classical Studies

General information

Director: to be appointed

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Degree: MA of the University of Buenos Aires in Classical Studies, with Orientation in Clssicla
Philology or with Orientation in Classical Culture.
Approximate duration: 2 ½ years
Enrolment periods: consult at Postgraduates Department.
Department: Faculty of Art

Contact information

Address: 430 Puan St. (C1406CQJ)
Telephone: 4432-0606 Ext.: 104,105, 166, 188 and 189 / 4433-5925
e-mail: posgrado@filo.uba.ar

Course description

Objectives
To create a confine of interdisciplinary nature for the study and research of the different
problems concerning the Greek and Roman world.
To favor the access to the Greek and Roman culture and increase the interest in it through the
study and interpretation of its most relevant manifestations
To endow students with adequate theoretical and methodological instruments that permit to
ensure a specific training in the disciplines that deal with the classical world.
To prepare students for a professional performance both in research and teaching and in the
activities connected to transference and spread of information, with the aim of nourishing the
university and scientific system of our country in the areas which the MA is concerned with.
To foster in students the acquisition of knowledge of the areas that concern their study and also
the development of the capacity to use critical thinking when approaching the specific problems
of Classical Studies.

Syllabus

The MA has a first common cycle and two orientations: a ) in classical culture; and b) in
classical philology.

First cycle:
Compulsory seminars: Mythology and religion in the antique world. Economy and society in
antiquity.
Optional seminars (two): Greek and Roman arts. Historic and geographical problems in Greece
and Rome. Theory on Contemporary Literature and classical texts. Orientations of antique
philosophy.

Orientation cycle – centered in two axes:

Orientation in Classical Culture
Theoretical-Critical Axis. Seminars: 1. Classical texts: continuities and mutations. 2.
Philosophical reading of classical texts. 3. Narrative analysis of classical texts.
Sociopolitical axis. Seminars: 1. Political conceptions in Greek texts. 2. Political conceptions in
Latin texts. 3. Social problematic in Greek texts. 4. Social problematic in Latin texts.
Anthropological-Cultural Axis. Seminars: 1. Myth and history in the classical world. 2.
Conception of men in the classical world. 3. Eschatology in the classical world. 4. Ethics and
customs in the classical world.
Linguistic- Grammatical axis. Seminar: Grammatical theories of antiquity.

Orientation in Classical Philology

Theoretical-Critical axis. Seminars. 1. Intertextuality in classical texts. 2. Ecdotics applied to
Greek and Latin texts.
Two optional seminars among the following: 1. Classical texts: continuity and mutations. 2.
Philosophical reading of classical texts. 3. Narrative analysis of classical texts. 4. Classical texts
and contemporary linguistic theories.

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