Objectives and competences

Welcome to the information portal for students of the degree Audiovisual Communication

The degree in Audiovisual Communication forms audiovisual professionals in the fields of Direction, script, production, realization, production design and visual and sound postproduction, research, corporate communication and community management (community manager).

The degree in Audiovisual Communication  offers comprehensive training in the competencies of the audiovisual professional. Prepare to use the technical instruments needed in content creation, and train in the ideation and realization of innovative audiovisual projects, in various formats and supports (audiovisual, radiophonic, sound, written and digital).

Throughout teaching, entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity are promoted through project-based learning. It also encourages participation in contests and festivals ofdocumentary film and de fiction, and new formats, and promotes initiatives with social impact. At the same time, the training of professionals with critical and analytical capacity, capable of studying and understanding the means ofcommunication and audiovisual products within the social, economic, political and cultural structure in which they are integrated is promoted.

 

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Course curriculum

Course Plans

Itineraries, mentions and electivity

Itineraries

The University of Barcelona recognizes in its permanence regulations two types of academic itineraries:

  • Full-time itinerary
    In this itinerary the student enrolls in the first year 60 credits and from the second year between 46 and 60 credits. Exceptionally, and under the authorization of the head of studies, you can enrol a maximum of 74 credits/course. For full-time itineraries with fewer or more course credits it is advised to contact the tutor of theTutorial Action Plan.
  • Part-time itinerary
    In this itinerary the student enrolls in the first year 30 credits and from the second year between 18 and 45 credits. If you want to follow personalized itineraries, it is recommended that students consult their tutor of theTutorial Action Plan  in order to agree on a continuation of the studies adapted to their needs.

Mentions

The Degree in Audiovisual Communication offers no mentions
 

Option

Optional subjects are organised around four areas of the profession, although no mentions are obtained in the degree course

AUDIOVISUAL ANALYSIS AND CRITICISM 
Analysis and film criticism
Design of audiovisual research projects
History of cinema and television
History and styles of documentary
Media, Public Opinion and Democracy
Expert writing techniques
AUDIOVISUAL DIRECTION AND CREATION
Soundtrack
Audiovisual communication of science
Direction of actors and dramaturgy
Art direction
Documentary direction
Dialog writing
Experimental narrative
INTERACTIVE COMMUNICATION
Animation
Creation 3D
Interaction design
Video game design and development
Animated Graphics
Transmedia Narrative
AUDIOVISUAL INDUSTRY 
Media Economy
New audiovisual formats
Executive production

Organization and methodology

Teaching is organized by semesters and in face-to-face mode, as specified in thecurriculum. The classes are taught in the morning and usually gather all the students in the theoretical classes and segment the class group in the practical classes. Given the professional nature of teaching, it has an eminently practical nature with the use of specific resources of the profession: cameras and other audiovisual equipment, set, sound room or Mac computer classrooms.

Each subject has its own methodology, which can be consulted in the teaching plan of each subject (see sectionStudy plan.)

Evaluation

According to the regulations governing the evaluation and qualification of learning and with the specifications and clarifications which has been agreed by the Academic Committee of our Faculty, delegate of the Board, students enrol by default in the continuous assessment modality, which usually consists of a set of evaluable activities carried out throughout the school period.

The UB framework regulations, already mentioned, also allow students who wish to take a single (non-continuous) assessment in any subject, to submit to the Faculty Secretariat a formal application.The request must be submitted during the first 20 days of class of each semester (or during the first 20 calendar days from the date on which the student has made the enrollment extension effective, if this is after the beginning of the semester).

Once the deadline has expired, the Secretary's Office will transfer to each teacher the list of students from each group who have taken part in this system.

Before making any decision regarding this topic, it is necessary to carefully consult the teaching plan of each subject and listen to the specifications that each teacher will make in the first days of class.

Calendar

Academic calendar 2024-2025

 

First semester

  • Teaching

    From 16 September 2024 to 20 December 2024, except for curricular internships, which end on 17 January 2025
    (Children welcome: September 16, 2024)

  • Single assessment and closure of continuous assessment

    From 8 January to 22 January 2025, except TFG, which closes the evaluation on 24 January and curricular internships, which close the evaluation on 31 January.

  • Reassessment

    From 3 February to 7 February 2025

  • Repeat Practicum and Practices

    From 25 June to 2 July 2025

 

Second semester

  • Teaching

    From 10 February to 30 May 2025

  • Single assessment and closure of continuous assessment

    From June 3 to June 17, 2025, except for curricular internships and TFG, which close the evaluation on July 11

  • Reassessment

    From 1 July to 7 July 2025, except for the curricular internship course.

  • Reassessment Curricular internships

    From 1 to 5 September 2025

 

Calendar of holidays and holidays 2024-2025

  • Christmas

    From 23 December 2024 to 7 January 2025

  • Easter

    From 14 April to 21 April 2025

  • Holidays

    24 September 2024
    October 12, 2024
    1 November 2024
    December 6, 2024
    8 December 2024
    1 May 2025
    9 June 2025
    24 June 2025

  • Institutional festivals and non-teaching days

    5 December 2024
    23 April 2025
    2 May 2025

 

Calendar of administrative procedures

Check the administrative procedures calendar at : Academic procedures calendar - Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media - University of Barcelona - University of Barcelona (ub.edu)

Schedule

Subjects by type

Time grid

Final work

Final Degree Project

The bachelor's thesis (TFG) is the culmination of the student's learning process, so it is recommended that it be taken in the final phase of the studies. It is regulated in accordance with the Faculty regulations and the UB regulations.

 

The TFG has an assignment of 12 credits and consists of the realization of an individual or group work, autonomous, tutored by a teacher, and its defense before a court in public session. The student must choose a type of work within the following areas:

 

  • Script
  • Audiovisual production and production
  • Audiovisual company management
  • Interactive communication
  • Audiovisual research
  • Other formats with audiovisual/sound/visual piece 

Credits: 12 ECTS

Consult TFGs scored as excellent or honours enrolment

TFG Regulations
 

  • Procedure
The student must prepare a pre-project to present a proposal of work topic among the possible types. The pre-project is uploaded to the Virtual Campus of the subject. Until this procedure is completed, the student will not be able to have an assigned tutor.
 
The tutor is assigned by the coordinator according to the objectives, methodology and subject matter, among the available teaching staff.
The delivery of the report, dossier and audiovisual production is done through the Virtual Campus, without detriment that the tutor or coordinator can request a printed or digital copy within the period set by the established calendar.
 
Once the number of students who have passed the previous stage is known, the coordinator appoints the defense courts among the available teachers and/or professionals and academics of recognized prestige within the defended topics.
 
The evaluation of the TFG is carried out through some rubrics or evaluation criteria available on the Virtual Campus. The Virtual Campus also contains documentation and guidelines related to the operation of the subject. The student is responsible for the delivery of the TFG in its phases, and in the deadlines established in this Guide.
 
  • Defence Courts
The coordinator will appoint the members of the court, which will be made up of two professors and/or professionals from the audiovisual world.
 
  • Formal Features
The formal characteristics of the report and work are specified in the Virtual Campus of the subject, and may vary for each type of TFG.

Mobility

The students of the Faculty have a series of opportunities to complement their training in other universities, both in the rest of Spain and abroad. Some programs are designed to complete the studies, while others promote the acquisition of practical experience in a real work environment.

 

 

Mobility programmes of the Faculty of Information and Audiovisual Media

Tutorial action plan

The Faculty has of a Plan of Act Tutorial that fixes the acts that the centre and the educations have to realise along the surveys with the aim to facilitate the adaptation of the students at his incorporation at the university, to facilitate his aprofitament academic and personnel and to favour the transition at the world of the work and the permanent training.

Tracking the guidelines fixed at this document frame, the faculty elaborates annually at the field of degree a Plan of act tutorial that has for aim that the students get the information and the necessary orientation to facilitate his integration at the field of the Audiovisual Communication.

At enrolling , or before if they solicit it, at the students of new income will assign him a tutor that will lean him and orientation customised along the surveys. This support will carry out by means of tutories of band and individual

Coordinator: Maddalena Fedele, dispatch 219

Each student of new income has a tutor assigned of random form since the moment of the registration. If somebody did not have , can pose with contact with Maria José Masanet for such to resolve the problem.

Acts of support and of orientation

The Plan of Act Tutorial of the Faculty of Information and Mitjans Audiovisuals defines most of the acts of orientation and support at the learning of individual form and grupal at the students at the distinct phases of his survey.

The acts of support and orientation that realise at the Faculty of Information and Mitjans Audiovisuals are:

Information and previous acts at the tuition

  • Presence at the Saló of the Education, organised of conjoint form with the SAE (Kick of attention at the student)
  • Day of Open Doors, realised at the Faculty for the Deanship and for the managers of the degree.
  • Visits at institutes and centres deprived of secondary education to announce our educations.  
  • Realisation of tutories prematrícula at charge of the Plan of Act Tutorial
  • Briefing on registration for part of the Office of the Faculty.

Acts of orientation and received specific of the degree for the students of new income

  • Realisation of the Day of Received for the pupils of new income, the first day of class, with the collaboration of the SAE and of the members of the Plan of Act Tutorial.
  • Realisation of tutories grupals and individual along the first academic course for such to aid the pupils at the transition at the university system. At charge of the Plan of Act Tutorial
  • Diffusion of activities of interest for the students by means of the Virtual Campus of the Plan of Act Tutorial.

Acts of support and orientation for the students of the degree

  • Briefings on the programs of mobility.
  • Briefings on the practical curriculars and no curriculars.
  • Tutoria individual at demand, at charge of the members of the Plan of Act Tutorial
  • Briefings on màsters and postgraduates
  • Sessions on professional starts and enquiry of work
  • Realisation of activities of support and orientation with the support of the SAE
  • Diffusion of activities of interest for the students by means of the Virtual Campus of the Plan of Act Tutorial.

Scholarships and grants

It suits to consult the scholarships and the aids for students of rank to inform on the requisites, formalities and terms to solicit a scholarship or an aid.

There are scholarships and aids at any university stage and of every type: to make enquiry, to take part in programs of exchange, to access at courses of summer, to magnify surveys or research abroad, to work of reader, to make labour practices at other countries, etc.

All this information is accessible since the seeker of scholarships of the Portal of Students.

Specific scholarships of the FIMA

Our faculty has of specific scholarships for the students, that can consult at the section of novelties and news of the web and at the counter of ads of our faculty and that can vary of course at course.