Master’s Program: TMS - Transcultural and Memory Studies
Faculté des Langues, des Arts et des Sciences Humaines – Ait Melloul
كلية اللغات والفنون والعلوم الإنسانية – أيت ملول
Master’s Program: TMS – Transcultural and Memory Studies
الدراسات عبرـ الثقافية والذاكرة
Études Transculturelles et Mémoire
TMSObjectifs de la formation
Considering the currently remarkable value of heritage as an integral part of the identity and memory of any country, the program in question should contribute to the training of future museum curators with multilingual skills, ambassadors and cultural consultants, administrative and management staff of NGOs, employees of communication services within ministries and delegations of culture and heritage. Therefore, the master's program should improve students' academic linguistic and cultural skills and knowledge to meet declared employment potentials.
The modules designed in the program are meant to deepen students' knowledge of the cultural components of Moroccan identities and memories from an academic and scientific perspective. This master's program, “Transcultural and Memory Studies,” is an unprecedented program for Moroccan universities.
Specific Objectives
- Developing students’ knowledge in the disciplines of cultural studies and memory studies.
- Equipping students with theoretical and conceptual frameworks in cultural and memory studies.
- Familiarizing students with different cultural concepts: race, ethnicity, class, identity, etc.
- Enabling students to link theory, analysis, and practice in research.
- Meeting some of the strategic goals of the kingdom/ministry/university with regard to the job market.
- Qualifying students for research into Morocco’s (and beyond) cultural tangible and intangible heritage.
- Providing students with skills and competencies to deal with (cross)cultural problems in research.
- Enabling students of critical, analytical, and constructive modes of thinking when dealing with multicultural contexts.
- Encouraging students to discuss/tackle/debate comparative/competitive identities and memories.
- Assisting students into communication modes with different stakeholders involved in cultural sustenance of patrimony and memory.
- Re-thinking the links between different identities and memories (Blacks, Jews, Muslims, Amazigh, etc.) across Morocco’s multicultural spectrum.
- Incorporating Morocco's cultural heritage/memory in world literature.
Liste des Modules
| Code | Intitulé du Module |
|---|---|
| M111 | Theories of Cultural Studies |
| M112 | Memory Studies: Methods and Approaches |
| M113 | Critical Theories on Heritage |
| M114 | Advanced Academic Writing |
| M115 | Cultural Memory and Anthropology |
| M116 | Digital Culture and AI |
| M117 | Foreign Languages |
| M121 | Cultural Memory and Indigeneity |
| M122 | Memory and Trauma Transformation |
| M123 | Diversity and Transcultural Dialogue |
| M124 | Diaspora, Migration, and Cultural Memory |
| M125 | Documenting National Memory |
| M126 | Cultural Entrepreneurship and Communication |
| M127 | Methodology of Scientific Research |
| M231 | Commemorative Practices and Moroccan Public Sphere |
| M232 | Cultural Memory in Texts and Contexts |
| M233 | Research Methods and Methodology |
| M234 | Gender and Women’s Memories |
| M235 | Memory and Multimedia |
| M236 | Translation Issues in Cultural Memory |
| M237 | Archives and Archiving |
| PFE | Projet de fin d’études (Equivalent à 7 modules disciplinaires) |
Débouchés de la formation
Le programme offre un large éventail de possibilités d'emploi dans :
- ONG (Culture, Mémoire, immigration, réfugiés, éducation, conflits ethniques et religieux, etc.)
- Municipalités et ministères (Culture et Mémoire)
- Organismes de conservation de mémoire
- Maison de mémoire / Bayt Al-dhakira
- Musées (Conservateur des musées)
- Institutions de recherche et programmes d'enseignement supérieur
- Tâches de communication et de diffusion dans des contextes multilingues et multiculturels
- Poursuite en Doctorat
Employability Profile Outputs
- Cultural ambassadors / Delegates
- Museum and Gallery Curators
- Cultural Public policy actors
- Archivists
- Researchers in Cultural and Heritage Organisms
- Freelance Cultural consultants
- Cultural projects managers
- Heritage foundation Actors
- Cultural Tourism Actors
- Academic researchers
- Memory sites curators
- Government Institutions of Culture, Heritage, and Memory
Conditions et modalités d’accès
Diplômes requis
Licence
Prérequis pédagogiques spécifiques
Applicants for this Master's program must meet specific pedagogical prerequisites. Candidates are expected to possess foundational knowledge from an English Bachelor’s degree, including literature, cultural studies, linguistics, or applied linguistics. Only students from these specific backgrounds are eligible to apply.
Procédures de sélection
- Étude du dossier (Notes de S1 à S6, Session d’obtention, Nombre d’années d’obtention de la licence)
- Test écrit
- Entretien