Information for the student – Conservation-Restoration of Cultural Heritage

The main objective of the bachelor’s degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage is to produce competent, qualified professionals who can carry out actions required to conserve works of cultural heritage so they can be passed on to future generations. The bachelor's degree offers balanced training in theory, practice, and technical and scientific content. It provides the skills and capabilities required to carry out professional activities in this field. In this way, graduates shall be able to take on responsibilities associated with the preservation of cultural goods, given the interdisciplinary nature of conservation and restoration, as described in the international professional guidelines (ECCO). This is based on the knowledge, examination and diagnosis of cultural goods, their preventive and curative conservation and restoration, and documentation of the processes and treatments that are applied.

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 study area) 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.
• 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.
• Communication skills: capacity to understand and produce spoken and written Catalan, Spanish and a third language, including the comprehension and use of specialized terminology, and capacity to research and integrate information in these languages.
• Ability to work as part of 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.
• Sustainability: capacity to assess the social and environmental impact of actions taken in a particular setting, and capacity to adopt integrated and systemic approaches.
• Critical reasoning and commitment to the plurality and diversity of realities of society.

 

Specific competences

• A command of the vocabulary and the legal and regulatory material that governs the profession of conservation and restoration and the institutions and organizations that are involved in art, culture and heritage.
• Capacity to analyse, identify and recognise the material and technological variety of cultural goods.
• Ability to recognise, analyse and identify the agents and mechanisms of alteration and deterioration of cultural assets.
• Capacity to identify, recognise and document the nature and state of conservation of cultural goods and activities of conservation and restoration.
• Capacity to make an assessment and plan a proposal for the conservation and restoration treatment of cultural assets.
• Capacity to apply the proposed conservation and restoration treatments and to assess the effects of the treatment regularly.
• Capacity to apply the conditions of preventive conservation, maintenance, manipulation, exhibition and transport of cultural goods.
• Capacity to identify, understand and assess the thinking of artists based on their works and texts.
• Manual ability, sensitivity and skills to carry out conservation and restoration treatments.
• Capacity to assess and know how to use the resources required to enter the job market.