Arab and Hebrew Cultures: Al-Andalus and the Contemporary World

The University of Granada is already allowing registration for this Master’s degree program.

The University of Granada Graduate School has created the Master’s degree program in “Arab and Hebrew Cultures: Al-Andalus and the Contemporary Arab World,” the contents of which are related with the historical, material and intellectual heritage of the Arab and Jewish legacy within the context of Al-Andalus, as well as the cultures and social and political dynamics of the contemporary Arab world, including those processes related with the so-called “Arab Springs.”

Both the curriculum and the faculty are clearly multidisciplinary, and this is due to the need to offer specialized training on the Arab and Hebrew cultures to students of different disciplines, from both the humanities and social sciences, with educational objectives that are clearly interdisciplinary.

The Master’s program was designed in such a way that it can include the option of allowing for different curriculum configurations based on specific thematic fields. In this sense, the modules and subjects in the Master’s program were created in response to an innovative spirit of renewal, by dividing the credits into two large sections (Al-Andalus and the Contemporary Arab World). In turn, each of these is arranged into modules made up of subjects from various disciplines (cultural studies, political science, sociology, anthropology, literature, etc.). Moreover, a required methodological module is given, as well as a module on the classical Islamic and Jewish legacy, of an optional nature, with a wide-ranging offering of workshops and seminars, a specific number of which must be selected on a required basis. The courses are broken down in this way in order to get a focus of each of the major fields of specialization through different approaches.

The Master’s program also offers external internships as an elective course (6 credits), which the students may complete at any entities outside of the UGR.

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