Bachelor's Degree in Visual Arts - Virtual Modality
Bachelor in Visual Arts
Approval Resolution No. 548 of 02/26/2021.
Professional Profile
As a graduate of the Visual Arts program, you will become a well-rounded professional, with disciplinary mastery, an expert in artistic and educational practices, with extensive knowledge in the development of teaching-related competencies. You will be able to epistemologically ground and understand that the field of knowledge is dynamic and changing, current, and requires broad creativity and the ability to recognize the implications that human diversity has on social phenomena.
Likewise, you will understand your profession as a space for creation and reflection, where you can continuously generate and modify knowledge, in addition to addressing it scientifically through innovative and educational research projects.
General Information
Applicant Profile
- Academic or pedagogical high school graduates.
- Normalista Superiores (graduates of teacher training colleges).
- Technical professionals with an emphasis in education.
- Technologists in education.
- Transfer students from other education careers.
- All those who are interested and motivated by pedagogical work and strive for the well-being and education of children.
Occupational Profile
As a graduate of the Visual Arts program, you will become:
- An expert in artistic and educational practices.
- Proficient in the development of teaching-related competencies.
- Epistemologically trained.
- Able to continuously generate and modify knowledge and address it scientifically through innovative and educational research projects.
Why study with us?
- We have been pioneers in inclusion work in Colombia for 40 years.
- Our program responds to national requirements, which are at the forefront of early childhood education training.
- The study of educational processes in childhood is approached through rigorous scientific analysis in recognized institutions with a great impact on society.
- In our classes, we work by approximating real educational situations, considering them as experiences conducive to factors and general conditions of education.
- We train professional educators capable of leading educational processes within the framework of inclusion and diversity.
- Through various exercises, we seek for our students to construct their knowledge based on the relationship between theory, practice, and research as fundamental axes of their training and professional development process.
Program Objective
Our objective is to train you with the best artistic creation skills, in a context where you have the ability to lead artistic production and training processes, through constant work on growth, as a vocation, of diversity and humanism. This is achieved through reflective exercises that generate in you an open, flexible mind and a commitment to the broadest levels of observation and problematization of teaching in your professional and conceptual growth.
In this way, we offer spaces for the production and reconstruction of knowledge, that is, the construction of theoretical-practical and attitudinal knowledge that allows you to make conceptual and practical changes towards your professional and personal growth process.
Curriculum
Semester 1
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Chair I. Diversity and Inclusion | 2 |
| Communicative Competencies | 2 |
| Mathematical Thinking | 3 |
| Digital Competencies | 3 |
| Fundamentals of Pedagogy | 3 |
| History of Art | 3 |
| Reality and Representation | 2 |
Semester 2
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Chair II. Life Plan | 2 |
| Argumentation and Text Production | 2 |
| English I | 3 |
| History of Latin American Art | 3 |
| Drawing Language | 3 |
| Theory of Image and Visual Language | 2 |
| Fundamentals of Didactics | 3 |
Semester 3
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Contemporary History of Visual Arts | 3 |
| English II | 3 |
| Educational Research | 3 |
| Photographic and Cinematographic Language | 3 |
| Didactics for the Representation of Reality | 3 |
| Curriculum | 3 |
Semester 4
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Aesthetic Definition of Visual Art Objects | 2 |
| English III | 3 |
| Digital Management and Innovation | 3 |
| Language of Printmaking, Engravings, and Intaglios | 3 |
| Didactics for the Construction of Discourse in Visual Arts | 3 |
| Practice I: Reality and Representations of Visual Art | 5 |
Semester 5
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| English IV | 3 |
| Sculptural Language | 3 |
| Didactics for the Production of Visual Artistic Objects | 3 |
| Evaluation | 3 |
| Practice II: Materialization of Discourse and Visual Language | 6 |
Semester 6
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Elective Specialization Course | 2 |
| English V | 3 |
| Visual Culture: Visual Studies | 2 |
| Didactics for Teaching Visual Arts | 3 |
| Practice III: Production of Visual Artistic Objects | 8 |
Semester 7
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Elective Specialization Course | 2 |
| English VI | 3 |
| Research Processes | 3 |
| Practice IV: Projecting the Teaching of Visual Arts | 10 |
Semester 8
| Subject | Credits |
|---|---|
| Elective Specialization Course | 2 |
| Political and Economic Thought | 2 |
| Instrumental Workshop | 3 |
| Practice V: Innovation and Teaching Practice | 11 |

