Study plan Bachelor's Degree in Art History

Basic skills

• Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
• Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
• Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
• Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
• Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.

Specific skills

• Recognising the evolution of the artistic imagery from the antiquity to the contemporary visual culture. Recognising the fundamental problems, vocabulary and concepts of the Theory of Art and Cinema.
• Expressing specific knowledge about the origin, evolution and various fields of study of Art History, as well as the classic and actual subjects, vocabulary and debates of the discipline.
• Applying the mastery of the basic critical and methodological tools in order to understand and narrate Art History and reflect on the profession of art historian.
• Demonstrating they know the history of the artistic ideas and the main theoretical currents that inspired the reflection about art, cinema, its creators and its audience through history.
• Critically analysing from the acquired knowledge a work of art in its many facets: formal values, iconographic significance, artistic techniques and procedures, elaboration process and reception mechanisms.
• Interpreting a work of art in the context in which it was developed and relating it with other forms of cultural expression.
• Applying the specific scientific methodologies of the discipline of Art History.
• Demonstrating they have basic knowledge of museology and museography, as well as the current problems about conservation and restoration of artistic heritage.
• Designing, producing and spreading management projects of artistic heritage.
• Organising the curator of exhibitions of permanent and temporal nature.
• Organising educational projects in various levels of the learning of Art History, applying the instrumental knowledge related to the discipline.
• Understanding the biological, cognitive, and cultural foundations of human language and the main contemporary grammatical structures.
• Analysing the lexical, phonetic, phonological, syntactic, semantic and pragmatic properties of natural languages.
• Applying the various analytical tools to different types of linguistic data.