2011_12
Educational guide 
Faculty or Arts
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Study programmes

Bachelor
Graduate in English Studies
Graduate in History
Graduate in the History of Art
Graduate in Audiovisual Communication
Graduate in Catalan Language and Literature
Graduate in Hispanic Language and Literature
Graduate in Journalism (2009)
Graduate in Publicity and Public Relations (2009)

Master
Medical Anthropology and Internacional Health (2006)
Medical Anthropology and Internacional Health (2010)
Urban Anthropology (2006)
Urban Anthropology (2010)
Classical Archaeology (2006)
Classical Archaeology (2010)
Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (2006)
Quaternary Archaeology and Human Evolution (2010)
Social Sciences of Development:Cultures and Development in Africa (2010)
Politi., Institu. and Corporat. Comm. in environ. of crisis and risk (2010)
Foreign Language Teaching (2007)
Foreign Language Teaching (2010)
Cultural Studies in English Language. Texts and Contexts (2009)
Women, gender and cityzenship (2007)
Advanced Studies of Catalan Language, Literature and culture (2007)
Advanced Studies of Catalan Language, Literature and culture (2010)
Youth and Society (2007)
Migrations and Social Mediation (2007)
Migrations and Social Mediation (2010)
Music as an Interdisciplinary Art (2010)
Euro-Mediterranean Relations (2011)
Historic Societies and Political Forms in Europe (2009)
Translation and Intercultural Studies (2010)

1st & 2nd Cycle
English Studies (2001)
Catalan Studies (01)
Hispanic Studies (2001)
Geography (2001)
History (2001)
History of Art (2001)
Publicity and Public Relations (2001)

2nd Cycle
Social and Cultural Antropology (2001)
Journalism (2004)



Welcome

The Arts have been studied in Tarragona since the 16th century when Cardinal Gaspar Cervantes de Gaeta founded a university that provided courses in grammar, arts and theology. After the War of Succession, the School of Literature, which depended on the new University of Cervera , continued to teach courses until the middle of the 19th century. Subsequently, from the end of the 19th century to the 30s, the Ecclesiastical University of Tarragona taught higher education qualifications in Philosophy, Theology and Canon Law.

This long tradition was taken up again in 1971-72, when the University of Barcelona started to teach in our city. The process culminated in 1983 when the Spanish government decreed that the nucleus of what we know as the Rovira i Virgili University, the faculties of Arts and Chemical Sciences, should be created. This was carried into effect by the Catalan government in December 1992.

The Faculty of Arts is diverse and dynamic, and in the academic year 2011-12 will be taught 7 studies of 1st and 2nd cycle, 2 studies of 2nd cycle, 8 degrees and 16 official master's degrees.

The dynamism of the Faculty of Arts, our desire and vocation to be an active part of the society that surrounds us, means that the faculty itself, the departments and the students organize a wide variety of activities (congresses, seminars, symposiums, extra-mural activities), thus ensuring that cultural life is promoted and spread throughout the southern regions of Catalonia. Likewise, we are constantly in contact with the local institutions and organizations. The Faculty is also open to the world, as can be seen from the Erasmus agreements, the agreements with American universities and the agreements with the University of Dalian, Nanjing and Sichuan (the People's Republic of China), which this year has led to the organization of a course in Hispanic Language and Culture specifically for the students from that university.

The Faculty of Arts is fully committed to the process of teaching renewal that society requires, (Premi a la Qualitat Docent 2007 del Consell Social) and this fact can be seen in projects of teaching innovation and the process of adaptation to the European Higher Education Area.

Finally, the Faculty of Arts is now, as it was and always will be, fully committed to its surrounding area and we reiterate our commitment to preparing university students to the best of our ability, to revitalizing the culture of the area, and to shaping a fairer, more plural and more tolerant society.