DASL04 – SECOND LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN GRAPHICS

 

Learning objectives

The objectives of the two-year course II level in Graphic Art and Design foresee the formation of new professional figures able to interact, in a qualified and original way, in the complex and multidisciplinary world of Graphic Art. The training of specialized operators is articulated in a path that ranges from knowledge and experimentation of every technique, material and language of the specific area, to traditional graphic production and its promotion. Didactics includes the sum of the operations related to Graphics, thus methods and processes used for the systematic processing of image and design. The analysis focuses on the phenomena relevant to the discipline, through elaborations aimed at identifying the possible graphic systems, understood as integral parts of the languages of representation, for the decoding and understanding of visual communication, from single copy to serial production.

The proposed activities also cover traditional, experimental, and multimedia technical materials and processes, from the design of the graphic product to the new materials, to the latest processes proposed by the contemporary industry and market.

The course also includes courses aimed at the elaboration and experimentation of multimedia and contemporary graphics, in harmony, indeed as a natural evolution, of the didactics implemented in the corresponding and preparatory three-year course.

The didactics will be programmed alongside workshops and theoretical lectures, seminars, exercises, training placements at companies, institutions or research institutes.


Graduates of the II level academic diploma of the School of Graphic Arts must have acquired:

  • An advanced knowledge and skills in the field of art printing, referable to all the steps of the professionalization path: conception, elaboration, printing, promotion, marketing, set-up, etc.;
  • An advanced knowledge and skills in the field of printing and publishing, including illustration of books, catalogues and anything else required by the market, including multimedia;
  • In-depth skills in communication and expression research; skills enabling effective advertising campaigns, including, of course, press campaigns, by experimenting with and developing new languages;
  • A specialist knowledge and skills in the field of the most advanced multimedia techniques and technologies, enabling highly professional use of the figures trained in the context of the multimedia design market;
  • An advanced knowledge enabling the use of IT tools and telematic communication in specific professional areas;
  • An advanced knowledge of the theory and history of art, obtained through a didactic course aimed at the in-depth analysis of the theories, materials and technological apparatus of art, but also of the museum sector, to which the didactic intends to pay appropriate attention;
  • An adequate knowledge and skills to enable the use of a language of the European Community and to make the trained figures competitive at European level.

 

Employment prospects

The graduates of the II level of the course will carry out professional activities in different fields, both in the field of art and in the field of visual arts and creative activities, in relation to the different possibilities of applying the acquired skills. The latter will also enable level II graduates to enter the labour market concerning the communication, design and implementation of the most diverse artistic values and expressions, including in the international context. To this end, the educational path includes the promotion of experiences of training internships or internships, to be carried out in companies, ateliers, highly qualified professional studios, study centres, which, concretely, introduce students into the world of work and promote their subsequent integration into the profession market. The internships take the form of training experiences to integrate the student into the world of production and allow the further development and application of the acquired skills.

The promotion of international teaching experiences, which is also one of the objectives of the course, will favour the insertion in the extra-national context.

The new legal architecture of the Academies of Fine Arts, moreover, provides for a general regulation that imposes a different didactic program and converging objectives, capable of building a shared strategic vision aimed at achieving professional skills appropriately oriented to improve the ability to work, in a global dimension, through internships and training activities aimed at facilitating artistic research and professional choices.

Employment opportunities include also education, provided that the conditions laid down by the legislation in force are met.

Access requirements

To enrol in the academic diploma of II level of the School of Graphics, it is necessary to have an academic diploma of I level of the same School, or a degree of study recognized as equivalent, or a diploma of I level, academic or university, for which the recognition of an appropriate number of Training Credits is possible.

In the case of foreign qualifications, international agreements and current legislation lay down the time limits for the definition of equivalences.

 

Type of final test

The final test consists of:

  • Presentation of papers produced during the course of the studies, selected in agreement with a lecturer of the subject disciplines, suitable to make clear the maturity and originality achieved by the student during the training course;
  • A thesis of historical-theoretical, methodological, or technical-artistic character, in the form of an essay, in one of the disciplines included in the academic curriculum or in the personal plan of studies.

DASL04 – SECOND LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN GRAPHICS