DAPL03 – FIRST LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN DECORATION

 

Learning objectives

The courses of study for the attainment of the diploma of first level of the School of Decoration have the objective to ensure an adequate mastery of the artistic methods and techniques, and the acquisition of specific professional disciplinary skills in order to provide methodological knowledge of design and expression in the use of tools and artistic practices, with regard to traditional tools and new technologies. The courses of the School aim to achieve general and technical knowledge for the realization of projects, interventions on the territory, environmental works, as well as develop the deepening and research on artistic languages – visual.


Graduates of the School’s diploma courses must:

  • Have adequate technical and operational training in methods and contents related to the fields of research in the fields of arts, techniques, and technologies of visual and plastic arts with reference to decoration;
  • Possess methodological and critical tools adapted to the acquisition of skills in expressive languages, techniques and the most advanced related technologies;
  • Be able to use effectively at least one language of the European Union, in addition to the mother tongue, in the primary area of competence and for the exchange of general information;
  • Have adequate skills and tools for communication and information management, in particular IT tools.

 

Employment prospects

The graduates of the School will carry out professional activities in various fields, both in the liberal arts profession, in the field of visual arts and creative activities, as well as collaborating, in relation to the different fields of application, in the planning, design and implementation of specific interventions of decoration, both in the field of instruments linked to tradition, as well as in the field of new technologies and new linguistic expressions found in national and international events. The Academies will organise, in agreement with public and private bodies, the most appropriate internships and internships to contribute to the achievement of specific professional skills and will further define, for each course of study, specific training models.

Access requirements

Admission requires the possession of:

  • Diploma of upper secondary school or other qualification obtained abroad recognized as suitable by the Academy in compliance with international agreements;
  • An adequate initial preparation of the student, concerning the basic knowledge necessary for the School of Decoration, verified through the entrance exams.If the examination is not positive, the Academy may indicate specific additional training obligations to be met within the first Year of the course.

 

Type of access test

The entrance exams shall include:

  • Multiple-answer tests with 50% general and 50% specific questions of the School’s area of competence;
  • Proof of design from the real, with or without use of living models or any other entity, as chosen by the examination Commission;
  • Free theme graphic test consisting of one or more elaborations made using the techniques most appropriate to the candidate. The tests will take place on the following days and will end with an aptitude interview. Proof of drawing from life, with use, or not, of living models or of any other subject, depending on the choice of the Commission.

 

Type of final test

The final test consists of:

  • An artistic-project thesis consisting in the production of essays on a subject specifically assigned by the teacher of the course of the discipline to which the student is enrolled;
  • A thesis of historical character – theoretical or methodological or technical – artistic, in the form of a short essay, in one of the disciplines included in the curriculum or in the personal study plan. Any subject of artistic production attached to the thesis will be functional to the specific character of the thesis.

 

DAPL03 – FIRST LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN DECORATION