Objectives and competences


General objectives of the program

Offer students theoretical, methodological and experimental tools that prepare them to carry out advanced research in artistic productions and in design.
An interdisciplinary approach is promoted between art, history, science and technology, between theoretical research and the practical experimentation.
It works mainly in research from the artistic project itself – art practice research- , but also in original research on the visual, audiovisual, media or intermediate arts, as well as design.


Program competencies

Basic skills

  • Systematic understanding of a field of study and mastery of research skills and methods related to that field.
  • Ability to conceive, design or create, put into practice and adopt a substantial process of research or creation.
  • Ability to contribute to the expansion of the frontiers of knowledge through original research.
  • Ability to carry out a critical analysis and evaluation and synthesis of new and complex ideas.
  • Ability to communicate with the academic and scientific community and with society in general about their fields of knowledge in the ways and languages commonly used in their international scientific community.
  • Ability to promote, in academic and professional contexts, scientific, technological, social, artistic or cultural advancement within a knowledge-based society.

Personal skills and competencies

  • To operate in contexts in which there is little specific information. / Find the key questions that must be answered to solve a complex problem.
  • Design, create, develop and undertake novel and innovative projects in their field of knowledge.
  • Work both as a team and independently in an international or multidisciplinary context.
  • Integrate knowledge, face complexity and make judgments with limited information. / Criticism and intellectual defense of solutions.