Information for the student – Design

All design students must have curiosity to learn about and act on the artificial material environment, from objects that are used everyday to the media and cultural expressions. Applicants must be observant and appreciate how objects make up the world and influence ways of living, along with a special aptitude for creating, developing and giving form to products and for testing alternative and original solutions, adapted to users and to the times.

In general, students should have the following capacities:

• Capacity to draw at basic level.
• Receptiveness to critical observations.
• Disposition for taking decisions independently.
• Ability to work as part of a team.
• Perseverance and perfectionism in work.
• Capacity to plan personal work.
• Disposition to independently carry out work.
• Interest and curiosity about social and cultural realities.
• Interest in artistic expression.
• Ability to learn independently.
• Capacity to understand and produce spoken and written English.
• Disposition to learn and use more languages.
• IT knowledge at user level.
• Knowledge and critical view of ICT as a source of documentation and exchange of information.
• Knowledge common to all upper secondary school courses in subjects such as history, art and humanities in general, grammar and language, mathematics and natural sciences.