Information for the student – Fine Arts

BASIC COMPETENCES

• Capacity to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in a field of study that builds upon general secondary education, and is typically at a level that, whilst supported by advanced textbooks, includes some aspects that will be informed by knowledge of the forefront of the field of study.
• Capacity to apply knowledge in professional practice and to develop specific competences for formulating and defending arguments and for solving problems related to the area of study.
• Capacity to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within the area of study) to make judgements based on reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
• Capacity to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
• Learning skills required for further study with a high degree of independence.

GENERAL COMPETENCES

• Commitment to ethical practice (critical and self-critical capabilities, and capacity to demonstrate attitudes consistent with accepted notions of ethical practice).
• Ability to work in a team (capacity to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project, and capacity to work in cross-disciplinary and multicultural teams).
• Creative and entrepreneurial skills (capacity to conceive, design and manage projects, and capacity to research and integrate new knowledge and approaches).
• Concern for sustainability (capacity to assess the social and environmental impact of actions taken in a particular setting/capacity to adopt integrated and systemic approaches).
• Critical reasoning and commitment to the plurality and diversity of realities of society.

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES

• Capacity to apply the vocabulary and codes of the visual arts in professional practice.
• Ability to distinguish and use materials, instruments and processes of art production and creation.
• Ability to use methods of production, techniques and technologies applied to art.
• Capacity to understand and value artistic discourses based on an analysis of artistic works and texts.
• Knowledge and critical understanding of trends, concepts and artistic discourses.
• Ability to create art products.
• Ability to select and design the presentation and exhibition of an artistic work or its project.
• Capacity to understand and relate art production with cultural, social, political and economic factors.
• Ability to act in a specific social and cultural context.
• Knowledge of the basic functioning of cultural management associated with art.
• Capacity to understand and apply the basic principles of research methods associated with academic work and artistic creation.
• Capacity to efficiently resolve problems derived from the process of art experimentation, using suitable technical and conceptual strategies.