DAPL02 – FIRST LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN SCULPTURE

 

Learning objectives

The study courses for the achievement of the First Level Academic Diploma of the School of Sculpture have the objective of forming artistic skills and qualified professionals who, taking into account the pluralism of languages and the innovations in the techniques that characterize the contemporaneity, are able to develop their own individual research in the field of sculpture linked to the techniques of tradition and its elaboration in the context of the experimentation of new expressive languages.

 

Graduates in the School’s diploma courses must:

 

  • Have an adequate technical and operational mastery of methods and contents related to the fields of research in the specific fields of the arts, techniques and technologies of sculpture;
  • 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 with IT tools.

 

Employment prospects

The graduates of the School will carry out professional activities in various fields, both in the liberal arts profession and 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 in sculpture, both in the field of tools linked to tradition, both in the field of architecture and urban planning, in the field of restoration and new technologies and new linguistic expressions found in national and international events. The Academy 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 Sculpture, 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 drawing from life, with use, or not, of living models or of any other subject, depending on the choice of the 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.

 

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.

DAPL02 – FIRST LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN SCULPTURE