The Degree Course in Arts, Music and Performing Arts aims at providing basic and interdisciplinary cultural education where the theory, history, analysis of visual art, music and entertainment forms in the classical and contemporary world, integrate with computer skills and with the knowledge of the principles, methods and techniques of design and representation. The aim of the Course is to provide undergraduates with disciplinary knowledge of arts and of the specific characteristics of media for the production of artistic language and for changing the way of thinking and making art, integrated with interdisciplinary knowledge making them professional and practical. Theories and history of the arts are centered on the mechanisms of generation of narratives, images and sounds in the classical world as well as in contemporary times. The computer science, design and architecture teachings are designed to provide skills and tools to understand and apply the basic technological resources to represent, manage and develop knowledge (digitization, visualization and data base, networks and communication devices), to select and optimize the use of applications depending on the features, the meaning and cultural value of works of art, musical compositions, and drawing practice. The IT lessons will provide the principles and operational skills for the software for the design, music production, as well as for the tools for musical and theatrical performances, to facilitate the mediation between technological knowledge and the world of arts, adapting or conceiving the possible development in function of specific expressive requirements. In this sense, the teachings related to architectural design will provide an important opportunity to mediate scientific knowledge and skills, and knowledge and skills related to the art world. The educational objective of the course is to equip graduates with a theoretical and historical culture and soft skills for the analysis and solution of problems related to the application and development of core technologies for every artistic address. The Degree Course is divided into three curricula, dedicated to the arts, music and performing arts. The choice of specific teachings for each curriculum enables to provide a specialist culture as well as basic and soft skills. The workshop mode of computer and design teachings, combined with the presence of training and internships, aims to consolidate the acquisition of useful knowledge and skills both to continue the studies with the relevant 2nd cycle Degree Course and to be valued as human capital in the labour market.
Making judgments:
Graduates should possess:
The ability to collect information and to interpret the principal data in the transfer, development and mutual adaptation of the humanistic and scientific-technological knowledge they have acquired.
The ability to assess the needs of application, incremental or creative innovation in the use, design and construction of knowledge technologies;
The ability to consolidate the knowledge and skills in a cognitive grounding which might be develop the master's degree. The judgment autonomy is promoted and developed through practical activities, the preparation of reports, the frequency of seminars, mid-term tests as well as through guided reading and tests analysis, and through the comparison with relevant artistic productions; these educational tools, not only enable to achieve of the skills in question, but are also an important assessment mode, together with individual examinations.. The final exam is a further significant moment of verification of the attainment of sufficient independent judgment.
Communication skills: Graduates must have the ability to communicate ideas, information, problems solutions to various recipients: specialists and experts in the academic and professional world, specialists not involved in the impact of decisions and production of goods and services or in the debate on the solution of the problems of a territory, experts and technicians interested in the organization, communication, distribution and dissemination of cultural events. They should also possess communication skills related to the transformation of humanistic knowledge and creative languages, to the potential of information and design technologies, to the innovation of new media and to the tangible and intangible communications infrastructure. Finally, they will have the ability to communicate in areas of use or demand for cultural goods and services, both in traditional and new contexts. Communication skills are developed not only with the class attendance, but also on the occasion of tutorials, workshops, seminars, and are related to the traditional and digital media. The acquisition of communication skills is assessed by means of written papers, oral presentations, tutorials and workshops; important moments of verification are also the activities of coordination or participation in working groups, as well as the seminars organized within various educational activities. Another key moment for the assessment of adequate communication skills is obviously represented by the final examination.
Learning skills:
Graduates will develop the ability to reflect on the knowledge they have with to data and relevant information to check the correspondence between the properties of the contents, goods or services with the project requirements, the potential and constraints of media, as well as with the recipient needs.
They will also have the ability to learn how to learn, to develop the ability to manage change and innovation and to respond to the local demand for new knowledge. They should also possess the ability to translate their capacity of reflection into competence to continue in the construction of their knowledge through 2nd cycle Degree Courses or professional courses as well to the learning of relevant information from the study of texts and specialized articles in the fields of research interest. Learning ability is the subject of all the training activities provided for in the Degree Course. The assessment of the skills required by the course primarily takes place by means of the mid-term and final the of individual courses, seminars, workshops, and is also the subject of the final examination.