UMH - Bachelor's in Audiovisual Communication

Bachelor's in Audiovisual Communication

Degree

Years:

Campus: Elche

Faculty of Social and Legal Sciences of Elche

Field: Social and Legal Sciences

Instruction: Classroom

Places available: 60.

Tuition (€) per ECTS credit:

The monetary amounts correspond to each exam call

1st: 14.96

2nd: 28.35

3rd: 60.12

4th: 80.16

Program website: http://cau.edu.umh.es/

Description

The required courses in the undergraduate Audiovisual Communication program seek certain balance between general systematic knowledge and specialized training geared toward professional practice. Producing audiovisual and multimedia content today requires university professionals possessing a comprehensive view of the entire productive process and, at the same time, requires further specialization in each work area. The set of electives offered seeks to examine each area of audiovisual and multimedia production and realization in depth, integrating different technical, narrative, creative, and organizational aspects through the creation of new audiovisual and multimedia products.

Career opportunities

Regulated profession: No

Television and film direction and production, scriptwriting.
Television and radio programming, equipment operation, production design.
Artistic direction, casting direction, photography, cinematography.
Film editing, camera operation, sound, wardrobe, styling.
Special effects in film and television, story board preparation and design.
Education and research in audiovisual and social communication.
Press departments.
Direction at production and media companies.

Program Coordinator

IVARS NICOLAS, BEGOÑA
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Program delegates

MORENO GARCIA-MASCARAQUE, MIGUEL
PROGRAM DELEGATE
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GARCIA ARRUFAT, PAULA
DEGREE SUBDELEGATE
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BERENGUER CARRION, CARLOS
FIRST YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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PIQUERAS GARCIA, ADRIAN
FIRST YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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GARCIA ARRUFAT, PAULA
SECOND YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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BARRETO GARCIA, SERGIO
SECOND YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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ORTEGA SÁEZ, FRANCISCO
THIRD YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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SANCHEZ MORALES, DANIEL
THIRD YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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MORENO GARCIA-MASCARAQUE, MIGUEL
FOURTH YEAR GROUP DELEGATE
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FERNANDEZ RIVERA, MARIA DEL CARMEN
FOURTH YEAR GROUP SUBDELEGATE
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Curriculum

ECTS credits: 240

Core	Required	Elective	External internships	Final Degree Project
60	150	24	0	6

Courses

Module	Subject matter	Course	ECTS credits	Type	Year/Semester
					1		2		3		4
					F	S	F	S	F	S	F	S
Cultural Industries and Contemporary Aesthetic Movements
	Anthropology
		CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY
			CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY	6	Core	■
	History
		CONTEMPORARY WORLD HISTORY
			CONTEMPORARY WORLD HISTORY	6	Core	■
Audiovisual and Multimedia Organization and Production
	Business
		BUSINESS ORGANIZATION
			BUSINESS ORGANIZATION	6	Core	■
		MEDIA MANAGEMENT
			MEDIA MANAGEMENT	6	Core		■
Oral and Written Expression. Adaptation to Audiovisual Communication Media
	Language
		LANGUAGE: ORAL AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION
			LANGUAGE: ORAL AND WRITTEN EXPRESSION	6	Core	■
		TEXT ANALYSIS AND NEWS WRITING
			TEXT ANALYSIS AND NEWS WRITING	6	Core		■
	Foreign Language
		ENGLISH FOR AUDIOVISUAL PROFESSIONS
			ENGLISH FOR AUDIOVISUAL PROFESSIONS	6	Required					■
Analysis of Audiovisual Discourse and its Social Impact
	Psychology
		BASIC PSYCHOLOGY
			BASIC PSYCHOLOGY	6	Core		■
	Statistics
		INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
			INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS	6	Core		■
	Audiovisual Advertising
		AUDIOVISUAL ADVERTISING
			AUDIOVISUAL ADVERTISING	6	Required						■
Theory and History of the Audiovisual and Multimedia
	Communication
		COMMUNICATION THEORY
			COMMUNICATION THEORY	6	Core	■
		NEWS RESEARCH
			NEWS RESEARCH	6	Core		■
	History of Art and Audiovisual Media
		CULTURAL MEDIATION IN THE ARTS
			CULTURAL MEDIATION IN THE ARTS	6	Required							■
		HISTORY OF AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA I
			HISTORY OF AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA I	6	Required			■
		HISTORY OF AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA II
			HISTORY OF AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA II	6	Required				■
Audiovisual Conception and Narrative Processes
	Audiovisual Conception and Narrative
		CINEMATOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE
			CINEMATOGRAPHIC NARRATIVE	6	Required					■
		GRAPHIC EXPRESSION
			GRAPHIC EXPRESSION	6	Required			■
		SCRIPTWRITING I: LITERARY
			SCRIPTWRITING I: LITERARY	6	Required			■
		SCRIPTWRITING I: TECHNICAL
			SCRIPTWRITING I: TECHNICAL	6	Required				■
Techniques and Creative Processes of Production, Realization and Postproduction
	Editing and Montage
		THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EDITING AND MONTAGE
			THEORY AND PRACTICE OF EDITING AND MONTAGE	6	Required			■
	Realization
		AUDIOVISUAL DIRECTION AND REALIZATION
			AUDIOVISUAL DIRECTION AND REALIZATION	6	Required					■
		AUDIOVISUAL SOUND PRODUCTION
			AUDIOVISUAL SOUND PRODUCTION	6	Required				■
		CINEMATOGRAPHY
			CINEMATOGRAPHY	6	Required				■
		PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPRESSION
			PHOTOGRAPHIC EXPRESSION	6	Required						■
	Production
		PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT
			PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT	6	Required					■
	Postproduction
		DIGITAL POSTPRODUCTION
			DIGITAL POSTPRODUCTION	6	Required						■
Audiovisual and Multimedia Technology
	Audiovisual Technology
		AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY I
			AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY I	6	Required			■
		AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY II
			AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA TECHNOLOGY II	6	Required				■
		AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM STRUCTURE
			AUDIOVISUAL SYSTEM STRUCTURE	6	Required							■
	Digital and Multimedia Technology
		ANIMATION I
			ANIMATION I	6	Required					■
		ANIMATION II
			ANIMATION II	6	Required						■
		MULTIMEDIA CREATION TOOLS I
			MULTIMEDIA CREATION TOOLS I	6	Required							■
		MULTIMEDIA CREATION TOOLS II
			MULTIMEDIA CREATION TOOLS II	6	Required								■
		SPECIAL EFFECTS
			SPECIAL EFFECTS	6	Required								■
Audiovisual Communication Structure and Policy
	Communication Law
		COMMUNICATION LAW
			COMMUNICATION LAW	6	Required						■
Transversal and Professional Competencies
	Program Electives
		AUDIO TECHNOLOGY
			AUDIO TECHNOLOGY	6	Elective								■
		AUDIOVISUAL AESTHETICS
			AUDIOVISUAL AESTHETICS	6	Elective							■
		FILM AND TELEVISION CRITIQUE WRITING
			FILM AND TELEVISION CRITIQUE WRITING	6	Elective							■
		MULTICAMERA REALIZATION
			MULTICAMERA REALIZATION	6	Elective								■
		TELEVISION PROGRAMMING
			TELEVISION PROGRAMMING	6	Elective								■
		VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS
			VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS	6	Elective							■
Final Degree Project
	Final Degree Project
		FINAL DEGREE PROJECT
			FINAL DEGREE PROJECT	6	Final Degree Project								■

Competencies

General competencies

Creativity and innovation.
Adaptation to organizational objectives.
Knowledge of the economic, technological, psychosocial, historical, cultural, and legal environment.
Ability to understand and interpret the environment and adapt to change.
Basic knowledge of communication.
Leadership and teamwork abilities.
Capacity and ability for critical analysis, synthesis, expression, and judgment.
Ability to act freely with social responsibility and professional ethics.
Ability for economic and budgetary management in one's environment of activity.
Capability to establish relationships, understand and satisfy the needs of clients and other agents within one's environment of activity.
Decision making and assumption of risk.
Organizational and planning skills.
Ability to search for and analyze information from various sources.
Entrepreneurial initiative and spirit.
Autonomous learning.

Specific competencies

Knowledge of the history and evolution of photography, film, television, video, and comics through their aesthetic and industrial proposals, as well as their social and cultural relevance over time.
Ability to apply audiovisual techniques and technological tools in order to develop a product in accordance with professional technical and artistic quality requirements.
Capacity to communicate and develop professionally within the international sphere of the practice in other languages, especially English.
Capacity and ability to present reasoned ideas and messages from the point of view of communication media, applying skills and expertise from different media.
Theoretical and practical knowledge of organizational structures in the field of audiovisual communication, as well as the nature and interrelationships between active agents within it: authors, institutions, companies, media, formats, and audiences.
Ability to fluidly write texts, news content, play lists, and scripts within the fields of film, television, video, and multimedia fiction.
Capacity to critically perceive the current panorama of audiovisual production, especially considering its products from the interest of future cultural and technological orientation with an impact on the professions of the audiovisual field.
Ability to incorporate into and adapt to a professional audiovisual team to assume different roles, including project leadership, managing them efficiently, looking after the project's interests and ensuring social responsibility.
Knowledge of professional ethics and codes of conduct as well as legal regulations of information affecting both professional practice and the tasks of a communicator.
Capability of analyzing audiovisual stories, attending to the basic parameters of film analysis, as well as carrying out an analysis of the structures, content, and styles of television programming.
Ability to read and analyze texts from each kind of communication media including digital.
Capacity to analyze techniques, processes, and technical resources necessary for the production and distribution of audiovisual and multimedia products in their various phases from a theoretical and practical perspective.
Possess knowledge of audiovisual communication theories and methods in their languages that serve as support for their activity, depending upon the requirements set, such as disciplinary knowledge and professional competencies.
Ability for technical management of sound and visual material according to an idea using the necessary narrative and technological techniques for the development, composition, finishing, and mastering of different audiovisual and multimedia products.
Ability to appropriately create, direct, manage, and apply technological techniques and tools for the production and distribution of audiovisual and multimedia products in their various phases from a theoretical and practical perspective.
Capacity to plan and manage the necessary technical resources for the production and distribution of audiovisual and multimedia products in their various phases from a theoretical and practical perspective.
Ability to propose and develop formats and/or topics of research or innovative personal creation that may contribute to the knowledge or development of audiovisual languages or their interpretation.
Knowledge and analysis capacity of the relationships between images and sounds from the aesthetic and narrative point of view, based on approaches of the theories of perception and significance.
Knowledge and proper use of one's own languages. Practical application of written and oral expression within multimedia communication means and digital media using techniques and resources of presentation and audiovisual expression.
Ability to apply audiovisual techniques and expertise in the use of technological tools in order to develop a product in accordance with professional requirements of technical and artistic quality.

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