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Higher-Level Vocational Training Program

These studies provide the skills to develop decoration project works, assess their plastic, artistic, technical, and economic aspects, and research the forms, materials, techniques, and artistic processes related to decoration.

Degree Title

  • Higher Technician in Plastic Arts and Design in Decoration Project Planning and Management

Curriculum Content Description

Subjects - Duration

  • Computer Media 132 h
  • Labor and Career Guidance 99 h
  • History of Architecture and Its Environmental Context 50 h
  • History of Interior Design50 h
  • Projects 200 h
  • Projects: Project Planning and Management 231 h
  • Final Project 99 h
  • Professional Project Management 165 h
  • Artistic Drawing 99 h
  • Technical Drawing 132 h
  • Volumetric Expression 100 h
  • Technology and Construction Systems 100 h
  • Technology and Construction Systems: Project Planning and Management 266 h
  • Work Placement in Companies, Studios, or Workshops 227 h

professional OPPORTUNITIES

Completion of this training cycle allows access to the labor market as:

  • Any official university degree program (preference is given to higher vocational training in the same branches of knowledge), higher university-level artistic education in Design, higher university-level artistic education in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, and the labor market.

acadEMIC OPPORTUNITIES

With these studies, students obtain the title of higher technician, which allows access to:

  • Any official university degree program (preference is given to higher vocational training in the same branches of knowledge), higher university-level artistic education in Design, higher university-level artistic education in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, and the labor market.

Duration of Studies

  • 1.950 hours, distributed over two academic years
  • 1.723 hours at the educational center
  • 227 hours at the workplace (internship)
  • This cycle is delivered in morning sessions from 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Teacher/Student Ratio

  • 1/15 in workshops and 1/30 in the rest of the modules

Admission Requirements

Direct Access

People who hold one of the following titles or certifications may access directly:

  • Bachillerato in the Arts modality or Experimental Arts.
  • Bachillerato in other modalities if three subjects from the plastic arts track of the Arts modality have been completed.
  • Technician in Plastic Arts and Design.
  • Higher Technician in Plastic Arts and Design.
  • Higher vocational training qualification in a family equivalent to Plastic Arts and Design for the purposes of the entrance exam.
  • Degree in Design, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage, Fine Arts, Architecture, or Engineering.
  • Technician in Industrial Design.
  • Higher degree (diploma) in Plastic Arts, Design, or Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage.
  • Graduate in Applied Arts and Artistic Trades in any of the specialties from the curricula established in 1963, 1984, or 1986.
  • Exemption resolution recognized by the Directorate General of Vocational Training.

Access via Specific Entrance Exam

People who must take the specific part of the entrance exam are those who:

  • Hold a Bachillerato.
  • Hold a vocational training technician title.
  • Have passed the entrance exam for higher vocational training.

People Without Academic Requirements

People without any of the above qualifications may access higher-level plastic arts and design cycles if they pass both the common and specific parts of the higher-level entrance exam; they must be at least 19 years old or turn 19 in the same year as the exam.

Important Information About Entrance Exams

Before pre-enrollment and registration at the center, students without direct access must register for the entrance exam (common and/or specific). These exams have a schedule independent of the center’s pre-enrollment and registration calendar.

Registration and passing the exam do not imply pre-enrollment or registration at the center.

 

Administrative Procedures

To attend the cycle, the admission application must be formalized and submitted to the center for the requested program in first place.

When the number of applications at a center exceeds the available spots, they are ranked according to the following criteria:

  • entrance exam grade,

  • average academic transcript grade (which grants exemption from the entrance exam) and

  • specific part of the exam grade.

Applications that still have the same score after applying these criteria are ranked according to a tiebreaker number obtained by lottery.

Registration and passing the exam do not imply pre-enrollment or registration at the center.

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