• Mode: research and professional
• Duration (in credits): between 60 and 120
• Qualification awarded: Master's Degree in Urban Anthropology
• Places available: 20
• Cost per credit
• Admission to doctoral programmes
• Contact

• Participating institutions
• Presentation
• Admission requirements
• Contents
• Modes
• Pre-registration

Participating institutions

Rovira i Virgili University

Compulsory student mobility: no

Presentation

The aim of this master's degree is for students to acquire sufficient knowledge to understand the main problems that affect the processes of urban transformation. It hopes to provide the ability and the knowledge for them to understand particular citizens' conflicts and to design research projects. The causes of urban problems are investigated and the main solutions of social mediation and conflict resolution are discussed.

Admission requirements

The Master's Degree courses are open to anybody with an official university qualification, even Spanish or foreign (this foreign degree must enable you to be admitted to postgraduate studies in the country where you obtained it). 

In addition, universities in charge of the organization of a Master can establish those procedures and requirements considered necessary to be finally admitted to the Master. Therefore, as well as having a previous official degree, you should get informed about additional conditions and selection criteria which may have been addittionally established by each Master.

Contents

Course taught in: Catalan and Spanish

The course is structured in four semesters that are taught over two years.

Subjects

First semester (common subjects)
- Introduction to Urban Anthropology
- Social Theory 1: the Classics of Social Thought
- Multiculturalism and Citizenship in Contemporary Societies
- Social Theory 2: History of the City and Urbanism
- Fundamentals of the Scientific Method
- Ethnographic Methodology

Second semester (common subjects)
- Symbolic Constructions in Contemporary Society
- Introduction to Social Movements
- Social Theory 3: Phenomenology and Social Interactionism
- Workshop on Demography
- Social Theory 4: Contemporary Debates on Metropolis and Transnationalism
- Quantitative Techniques
- Qualitative Techniques

Third semester (formative modes)
- Urban Ethnography Workshop 1 (common subject)

Gender and Cultural Diversity
- Sex, Gender and Love
- Kinship, Family and Gender Relations in Urban Societies
- Gender and Consumption
- Interculturality and Religion
- Social Movements and Citizenship

Urbanism and Organizations
- Metropolis and Social Conflict
- Urban Ethnography Workshop 2
- The cities of Latin America
- Anthropology Applied to the Analysis of Organizational and Business Cultures
- Work and Society in Postindustrialism
- City, Urban Landscapes and Heritage
- Globalization, Economy, Politics and Development

- Agrarian Society and Processes of Urbanization

Transversal subjects
- Public Policies and Social Welfare 1: Social Exclusion

- Public Policies and Social Welfare 2: Welfare Mechanisms

- City and Urban Planning
- Cuisine, Identities and Multiculturalism

- Philanthropy, Welfare State and Public Policies

Fourth semester
Practicum (professional profile)
Seminar (professional profile)
Research work (research profile)
Research seminar (research profile)

Modes

- Professional (to be activated in 2007-08)
- Research

Official Master's degrees offer specific Modes which will be effectively initiated -or not- depending on the number of students finally admitted.

Pre-registration

The preregistration period (1st phase) will begin on 1st March and end on 30th April.

If all the places available are not taken within this period, a new preregistration period will be opened (2nd phase) between 1st and 30th June.
The preregistration must be carried out on the Internet. The online form will become operative on the first day of the preregistration period. preregistration application.
For academic questions, please get in touch with the coordinator of the Masters. For administrative information, contact the secretariat of the faculty/school that teaches the Master's Degree; if you have been offered a place in the program on the strength of a foreign qualification, the Postgraduate and Doctoral School will inform you of the documents you will need. 

Pre-registration on-line

Academic contact (coordinator)
Dr. Jaume Vallverdú Vallverdú  Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work (Faculty of Arts)  977 558 863 jaime.vallverdu(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Administrative contact (secretary)
Secretariat of the Faculty of Arts  977 559 513 capsfll(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat

Postgraduate and Doctoral School
Edifici del Rectorat - Escala C, 1st floor - c/ Escorxador, s/n (Tarragona)   Tel: 977 558 478. Fax: 977 558 847   mastersoficials(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat  Office hours  Mornings: Mondays to Fridays from 8.30 to 14.30 Afternoons: Wednesdays and Thursdays from 15.30 to 18.00  July and August: Mondays to Fridays from 8.00 to 15.00

Further information

• Schedule for procedures involving students
• Admission regulations
• Programme

- Professional

  - Research

• Educational Guide
• Faculty/school for registration
• Administrative procedure
• Pre-registration on-line
• Documentation required for preregistration 
• Requirements for foreign documents 
• Frequently-asked questions
• Payment of fees from abroad