Course Data
Ideal duration: 8 semesters
Has proof of specific skills
Course coordinator: Marco Francesco Buti
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About the course
The ECA Department of Plastic Arts (CAP) offers in its undergraduate course, from 2020, the Bachelor of Visual Arts and the Degree in Visual Arts, both with an ideal duration of 4 years, also allowing to obtain both titles, in at least 6 years of study.
Based on the idea that the student should not have his learning strictly directed by the course, the graduation seeks to offer a profound basis for him to improve his visual thinking capacity and become able to materialize his artistic projects in any medium.
The selection, in addition to the entrance exam common to other courses, takes place through a test of specific skills that seeks to be socially inclusive, evaluating in students their visual reasoning ability and, mainly, potentials and aptitudes that can be developed during the course.
Training
Training in Visual Arts seeks not to close the student in the course of an inflexible grid of disciplines, allowing him to seek, within the Department of Plastic Arts (CAP), knowledge that feed his most diverse areas of interest.
Mandatory and optional subjects are offered so that students can assemble their curricula more freely. This idea of permeability is also manifested in the possibility of a trainee being guided in projects by teachers who are not necessarily formally linked to their technical choices.
The Degree is also designed to develop organically in relation to other subjects; the idea is that it is not only carried out at the end of the undergraduate course, but rather that it takes place simultaneously with training in the same subjects as the Bachelor's Degree.
There is also room for the improvement of interests commonly expressed by students, which are not specifically included in the bachelor's degree, such as Theory, Criticism and Art History.
In addition to this freedom and multidisciplinarity within ECA, students can complement their training with optional and elective subjects, which they can take at any of USP's teaching units (even on other campuses, such as USP Leste and the Quadrilátero Saúde-Direito ), delving into knowledge that is of interest to you in the Human, Exact and Biological areas.
The internationalization that the course proposes is growing: regularly, undergraduate students will be part of their courses in countries like France, Mexico, Portugal and Spain, in addition to the large flow of foreign students who come to take courses at ECA.
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Subjects
Training in Visual Arts seeks not to close the student in the course of an inflexible grid of disciplines, allowing him to seek, within the Department of Plastic Arts (CAP), knowledge that feed his most diverse areas of interest.
Mandatory and optional subjects are offered so that students can assemble their curricula more freely. This idea of permeability is also manifested in the possibility of a trainee being guided in projects by teachers who are not necessarily formally linked to their technical choices.
The Degree is also designed to develop organically in relation to other subjects; the idea is that it is not only carried out at the end of the undergraduate course, but rather that it takes place simultaneously with training in the same subjects as the Bachelor's Degree.
There is also room for the improvement of interests commonly expressed by students, which are not specifically included in the bachelor's degree, such as Theory, Criticism and Art History.
In addition to this freedom and multidisciplinarity within ECA, students can complement their training with optional and elective subjects, which they can take at any of USP's teaching units (even on other campuses, such as USP Leste and the Quadrilátero Saúde-Direito ), delving into knowledge that is of interest to you in the Human, Exact and Biological areas.
The internationalization that the course proposes is growing: regularly, undergraduate students will be part of their courses in countries like France, Mexico, Portugal and Spain, in addition to the large flow of foreign students who come to take courses at ECA.
Extracurricular activities
It is common for Visual Arts students to participate in various competitions and public notices held at the university level, both as a way to showcase their work and to obtain, through prizes, funds for carrying out projects. One of the highlights is the Programa Nascente, carried out by the Pro-Rector of Culture and University Extension (PRCEU), a competition that awards artistic projects in the areas of Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Audiovisual, Design, Classical Music, Popular Music and Text and exposes its winners and honorable mentions in the Nascente Circuit, bringing them great visibility.
The student can also participate in scientific initiations, research groups or even spontaneous and unpredictable projects, although well regarded by the course, such as the development of collective workshops unrelated to ECA that meet the demands and individual interests of students, in addition to the that graduation already offers.
Practice areas and labor market
A professional trained in Visual Arts finds a vast field of performance, characterized by careers that are not necessarily exclusive: there is the possibility of developing them concurrently, whether in the field of artistic production, teaching or research.
The student can choose to be inserted in the different areas of the artistic circuit, which involve, for example, museums, galleries and artistic residencies, and participate in public notices and contests that bring him greater visibility, as well as funds to develop personal projects.
Still in the field of artistic production, the professional can work with illustration in media such as children's or adult books, manga and comics, which, in the opinion of the professor and coordinator of the course, Marco Francesco Buti, are configured as “multiplicable means of constant exposure, without a fixed place ”. The basis offered by the graduation also allows the student to develop pieces specifically for digital media, such as websites and games.
The labor market also includes internships and fixed vacancies in institutions of cultural diffusion such as SESC, MAC, MASP, MAM and Pinacoteca, where it is possible to act, for example, in the areas of research or monitoring.
Another option is to pursue a career as a teacher in public or private education, in addition to the possibility of acting in higher education, through postgraduate courses and complementary training.
Diferencial
The openness that the Visual Arts course offers the undergraduate student is essential for his development as an artist or in any other function that he wishes to perform in the professional environment. It seeks to provide fundamentals for the student to make his own decisions, without the intention of limiting him or directing his learning strictly to what his bachelor's degree presupposes.
Thus, it intends to provide the student with the necessary basis for him to follow the career he wishes, even if this is not deeply addressed by the undergraduate course (as is the case, for example, of professionals who have followed a career in restorers, based on specializations in abroad and other studies complementary to what they received in the course).
Both foreseen and unforeseen paths are well regarded and stimulated by graduation, which offers students tools to develop and express themselves with all the creative freedom that an artist should have.