DASL02 – SECOND LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN SCULPTURE

 

Learning objectives

The objectives of the two-year course II level in Sculpture are to train professionals who are able to work in the fields of Sculpture and related disciplines.

The educational offer includes disciplines designed to enhance the various expressions of contemporary art, as well as disciplines designed to enhance and enhance knowledge related to the phenomenology of contemporary art and art criticism, as well as to the latest and modern technologies and performing techniques of the visual arts. It also provides for the acquisition of skills related to new digital and three-dimensional modelling techniques.

The course includes classes that are a natural evolution of the teaching implemented in the corresponding and preparatory three-year course.

The educational activities in the strict sense will include, in addition to workshops and theoretical lectures, seminars, exercises, training placements at artists, art galleries, museums, institutions or research institutes.

Graduates of the School’s diploma courses must have:

  • Advanced knowledge and skills in autonomous expressive research related to contemporary artistic production, with particular attention to experimentation;
  • An advanced knowledge of traditional and experimental techniques used in contemporary visual arts;
  • An advanced knowledge of the history, aesthetics, criticism and phenomenology of contemporary arts;
  • A considerable ability to think, imagine and design new means of expression, both technical and conceptual;
  • Appropriate skills and tools for communication and information management, with reference also to the ethical and social aspects of artistic experimentation;
  • Methodological tools for understanding and adopting the most advanced expressive languages, techniques and technologies.

 

Employment prospects

The graduates of the II level of the School of Sculpture will be able to carry out independent professional activities, in the various fields of the visual arts, ranging from artistic production to consulting for the preparation and realization of exhibitions in the field of contemporary art.

To this end, the educational path includes the promotion of training internships or internships, to be carried out in companies, ateliers, highly qualified professional studios or study centres, which, in concrete terms, introduce students into the world of work and promote their subsequent integration into the profession market. The internships take the form of educational experiences of integrating the student into the world of artistic 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.

Employment opportunities include 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 Sculpture, 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.

 

DASL02 – SECOND LEVEL ACADEMIC DEGREE IN SCULPTURE