Master's degree in history

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Area

Humanities

Sub-Discipline

History and Archeology

Universidad de Tarapacá

University of Tarapacá

  • City: Arica,
  • Commune: Arica,
  • Region: Arica and Parinacota Region
goals

The program's objective is to train graduates capable of facing advanced research activities in the field of Anthropology in an original and creative way, with theoretical and methodological skills that allow their participation in the design and execution of original and critical research on anthropological problems, encouraging the generation of knowledge and fostering academic debate on northern Chile, the Andean subregion and the country.

Applicant Profile

Anyone holding a professional degree or a university academic degree completed in at least eight academic semesters may be admitted to the Master's Program in History. The professional degree or academic degree must be at least equivalent to a Bachelor's degree in History, a degree in History Teaching, or a degree in the Humanities and/or Social Sciences. For international students, documents must be duly apostilled.

Graduate profile

The graduate of the program must be able to develop skills that allow the student to initiate a research process that identifies problems of a historical nature, approachable from the disciplinary method of the specialty, of an original character and that contributes to the regional, national and transnational historiographical debate.
Throughout the program, students will acquire theoretical skills (knowledge), reflected in:
– To develop knowledge and skills to work in the field of research, contributing to disciplinary, as well as inter- or multidisciplinary work teams; from a theoretical and practical perspective.
– To master historiographical debates and trends, with an emphasis on the lines of research defined by the program.
– To develop analyses that contribute to the knowledge and discussion of historical problems.

They will also acquire methodological skills that will translate into appropriate competencies for their behavior in their work:
– To contribute to the knowledge and debate of ideas through the development of scientific research proposals.
– To contribute to the knowledge and debate of ideas through historical research, consulting and analyzing documentary and diverse sources.
– To manage research methods and techniques specific to the discipline, subject to the lines of research developed by the program.

Lines of investigation

The program has a clear definition of the research or creative areas on which it is based. These areas, having an emphasis on research developed by the academic body, which is directly involved in teaching and in the direction of theses associated with research projects led or co-led by those related to the program, are defined by:
1.- Andean Ethnohistory.
2.- Regional and Cross-Border History.
3.- State and Society in Latin America.