Program Overview

Introduction to the Master's Program

The International Master in Audiovisual and Cinema Studies (IMACS) is a unique initiative that brings together seventeen prestigious universities to provide students with a comprehensive education in cinema and audiovisual studies. This program allows students to specialize in various fields of cinema, including aesthetic analysis, historiography, film preservation, new cinematic trends, hybridization with other arts, documentary tradition, and new audiovisual practices.

Program Objectives

The primary objectives of the IMACS program are:

• To provide students with the necessary knowledge and skills to pursue a doctoral thesis in cinema studies.
• To enable students to teach in the broad field of audiovisual studies.
• To equip students with advanced knowledge, allowing them to work in film conservation, programming, and criticism.

Competencies

The program aims to develop the following competencies in students:

Specific Competencies

• Knowledge of theories and research methods in contemporary audiovisual studies.
• Understanding of the practice of research in the context of contemporary audiovisual studies.
• Familiarity with new forms of audiovisual representation in relation to tradition.
• Ability to understand and interrelate knowledge in the field of audiovisual studies.
• Capacity to search for and utilize written documents to support ideas.
• Analytical and critical thinking skills.
• Creativity in hermeneutic reading of images.
• Ability to write and communicate ideas generated by images.
• Ability to transmit knowledge of cinema and audiovisual studies in teaching or professional practice.
• Capacity to conduct original research based on acquired knowledge and methods.
• Ability to conduct original research on cinematic works.

Transversal Competencies

• Intellectual: critical analysis of academic knowledge, capacity to generate new ideas in academic essays.
• Communicative: ability to present research, ideas, and scientific findings effectively.
• Interpersonal: ability to reflect aloud in classes and oral presentations, understand new fields of study.
• Personal management: efficient and effective organization of personal time, development of self-learning capacity.

Program Structure

The IMACS program is a fully face-to-face master's program that allows students to complete part of their training at their home university and the rest through two mobilities abroad at universities with suitable faculty, curricula, and didactic resources. This structure enables students to internationalize their research in cinema studies, preparing them for future doctoral studies or professional work in the field of cinema or audiovisual studies.