Introduction

The bachelor's degree in Fine Arts provides training in artistic practice and thought, taking into account both the specificity of the different disciplines and the transdisciplinary reality of contemporary art. The degree offers quality face-to-face teaching and has an excellent reputation in research.

The bachelor's degree in Fine Arts aims to train art professionals in the fields of the creation, production, dissemination and research of both art and the creative process. Students have access to workshops and technological labs that are fully equipped to meet their creative and experimental needs. It provides the skills for artistic creation across audio-visual art, drawing and painting, sculpture, photography and engraving and in any other emerging multidisciplinary or interdisciplinary creative process. It also prepares students to pursue careers in museum and cultural management of art; advice and consultancy on visual art and culture; art teaching in relation to official education, educational and research departments of museums and any other art-related training.

Basic information

TypeBachelor's degrees
Faculty or schoolFaculty of Fine Arts
Branch of knowledge
  • Arts and Humanities
Mode of delivery

face-to-face

Credits240
Number of places available

300

Length of course4 academic years
Language(s) of instructionCatalan 76,2%, Spanish 23,5%, English 0,3%
Admission grade

8,759  (July 2023, start of process, via official entrance examinations/vocational training)

 

Approximate price per credit18,46 €
Compulsory placementsNo
CoordinatorMARTA NEGRE BUSO
E-mailce.belles.arts@ub.edu
Course detailsIndicators

Objectives and competences

Objectives

Competences

BASIC COMPETENCES

  • Capacity to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in a field of study that builds upon general secondary education, and is typically at a level that, whilst supported by advanced textbooks, includes some aspects that will be informed by knowledge of the forefront of the field of study.
  • Capacity to apply knowledge in professional practice and to develop specific competences for formulating and defending arguments and for solving problems related to the area of study.
  • Capacity to gather and interpret relevant data (normally within the area of study) to make judgements based on reflection on relevant social, scientific or ethical issues.
  • Capacity to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.
  • Learning skills required for further study with a high degree of independence.

 

GENERAL COMPETENCES

  • Commitment to ethical practice (critical and self-critical capabilities, and capacity to demonstrate attitudes consistent with accepted notions of ethical practice).
  • Ability to work in a team (capacity to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project, and capacity to work in cross-disciplinary and multicultural teams).
  • Creative and entrepreneurial skills (capacity to conceive, design and manage projects, and capacity to research and integrate new knowledge and approaches).
  • Concern for sustainability (capacity to assess the social and environmental impact of actions taken in a particular setting/capacity to adopt integrated and systemic approaches).
  • Critical reasoning and commitment to the plurality and diversity of realities of society.

 

SPECIFIC COMPETENCES

  • Capacity to apply the vocabulary and codes of the visual arts in professional practice.
  • Ability to distinguish and use materials, instruments and processes of art production and creation.
  • Ability to use methods of production, techniques and technologies applied to art.
  • Capacity to understand and value artistic discourses based on an analysis of artistic works and texts.
  • Knowledge and critical understanding of trends, concepts and artistic discourses.
  • Ability to create art products.
  • Ability to select and design the presentation and exhibition of an artistic work or its project.
  • Capacity to understand and relate art production with cultural, social, political and economic factors.
  • Ability to act in a specific social and cultural context.
  • Knowledge of the basic functioning of cultural management associated with art.
  • Capacity to understand and apply the basic principles of research methods associated with academic work and artistic creation.
  • Capacity to efficiently resolve problems derived from the process of art experimentation, using suitable technical and conceptual strategies.

 

Access and admission

Applicant profile and access requirements

Recommended applicant profile

The recommended applicant profile for the bachelor's degree in Fine Arts is upper-secondary school students specialising in art, science or technology and students of advanced vocational qualifications in plastic arts and design. Students who enter the bachelor's degree in Fine Arts must have a degree of personal maturity, including an open, positive attitude, high self-esteem, and a tenacious, empathetic nature. Students must also have sufficient communication skills: oral and written command of Spanish, Catalan and English; and sufficient command of communication techniques to transmit opinions, feelings and intentions. Finally, students must have intuitive sensitivity and ability in creation and art. Students must have an enterprising nature in activities with social, cultural and artistic reach and the desire to promote themselves personally when faced with critical and artistic thinking.

Access requirements and conditions

Admission for students with studies completed outside Spain.

Applicants holding higher educational qualifications from a university outside Spain should consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications to find out about specific admission requirements.
 

Pre-enrolment

Students that have studied abroad and who wish to study at the University of Barcelona may be admitted to EHEA bachelor's degree courses. Procedures for gaining admission will depend on the qualifications held by each applicant.

For further information about admission, consult the page Admission with foreign qualifications.
 

Enrolment

As a general rule, at the UB you will be required to enrol online via the Món UB portal. To find out the date and time you have been assigned, check the specific information for your course. Remember that you can lose your place if you do not enrol on the day you have been assigned.

Academic information

Welcome

Support and guidance

Pre-enrolment information and events

Course curriculum

Subjects and course plans

Distribution of credits

Type ECTS
Basic training 60
Compulsory 120
Optional 48
Compulsory placements 0
Compulsory final project 12
TOTAL 240

List of subjects

Subject Language Type Credits
Drawing Annual Basic training 12
Painting 1 Annual Basic training 12
Sculpture 1 Annual Basic training 12
Concept of Modern Art 1st semester
2nd semester
Basic training 6
Photography 1st semester Compulsory 6
Audiovisual 2nd semester Compulsory 6
Digital Applications 1st semester
2nd semester
Compulsory 6
Subject Language Type Credits
Contemporary Visualities 1st semester Compulsory 6
Creation Workshop 2 1st semester Compulsory 12
Concepts of Contemporary Art 2nd semester Compulsory 6
Creation Workshop 3 2nd semester Compulsory 12
Subject Language Type Credits
3D Modelling 1st semester Optional 6
Analogue Laboratory in Black and White. The Negative and the Copy 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Aprenentatge Servei, Compromís i Transformació Social 1st semester Optional 6
Art and Fabric 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Art and Social Intervention 2nd semester Optional 6
Art from and Placement 2nd semester Optional 6
Art, Technology and Printing 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Artisan Processes and Contemporary Art 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Artistic Anatomy 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Arts in Transit Nomadic Visions 1st semester Optional 6
Arts-Based Research 1st semester Optional 6
Casting and Sculptural Creation 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Contemporary Drawing, Graphic Documentation and Archiving Practices 1st semester Optional 6
Contemporary Painting and Illustration Intersections 1st semester Optional 6
Creative Illustration 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Documentary Processes 1st semester Optional 6
Drawing and Animation 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Drawing of Movement 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Expansions of Painting 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Extensive Image 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Feminisms, Cooperation and Co-creation 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Graphic Interventions in Staging and Performance 2nd semester Optional 6
Iconology 1st semester Optional 6
Interdisciplinary Attitudes Space, Place and Nature 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Intersection in Personal Pathways. Spaces for Creation and for Dissemination 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Introduction to Creative Therapy 2nd semester Optional 6
Landscape Painting 2nd semester Optional 6
Light and Lighting Design 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Llum, Escenografia i Performance 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Models, Mock-Ups and Prototypes 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Narratives and Technologies of Pictorial Figuration 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Reproducibility: Ideas and Processes 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Sculpture and Earth Materials 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Sound Art 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Sound Sculpture 2nd semester Optional 6
Systems of Representation 1st semester Optional 6
Traditional and Experimental Pictorial Techniques 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Transformation in Landscape: Memory and Public Space 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Video Art and Experimental Cinema 1st semester
2nd semester
Optional 6
Writings of the Artist 2nd semester Optional 6

Pathways and specializations

Fine Arts
Check the planning of the different pathways of the degree

Previous years

Placements

Pre-enrolment information and events

 

Career opportunities

What can you work on ?

  •  Plastic or visual art creation in all the subject areas covered by the degree course.
  • Creation in areas of economic activity related to cultural industries.
  • Activities of curatorship or conservation, cultural and museum management of art.
  • Advice and consultancy on visual art and culture.
  • Art teaching in relation to official education, educational and research departments of museums and any other art-related training.

Access to the labour market

Data from the university system in Catalonia

Contact us

Faculty of Fine Arts

Pau Gargallo, 4 - 08028 Barcelona

Secretary: 934 034 051
sec.ba@ub.edu

 

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