Academic Year/course:
2023/24
278 - Degree in Fine Arts
25121 - Infographics
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
25121 - Infographics
Faculty / School:
301 - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
Degree:
278 - Degree in Fine Arts
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
2
Semester:
Second Four-month period
Subject type:
Optional
Module:
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1. General information
The Infography subject, an elective in the second year of the Fine Arts Degree, is the first contact of Fine Arts students with digital image computer programs. Despite the creative nature of the programmed learning activities, this subject has a marked technical profile, which provides the Fine Arts student with the necessary skills in the new visual technologies. Learning is oriented towards digital artistic production, in line with the specific objectives of the degree.
1.1 Objectives of the subject: These approaches and objectives are aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of the United Nations Agenda 2030, so that the acquisition of the learning results of the subject provides competence to contribute to their achievement: Goal 4: Education; Goal 5: Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment; Goal 16: Peace and justice.
2. Learning results
1. Clearly differentiate digital image concepts: formats, resolutions, vector - bitmap, screen or print colours. Distinguish and correctly manage the different files.
2. Understand, apply and solve virtual workspace (user interface) configuration problems.
3. Correctly select and transform: contours, colours, tones and regular or irregular figures, applying the most appropriate tools to the characteristics of the problem posed.
4. Know, understand and correctly apply painting and erasing tools. Create their own brushes.
5. Restore, edit and modify the exposure of digital photographs.
6. Handle, with fluency, the layers and apply the different styles to them. Create their own "styles".
7. Know, understand and use vector tools. Distinguish vector-raster concepts and apply them correctly in practice. Create custom text and shape and relate them to layers and their effects.
8. Understand and correctly apply auxiliary tools.
9. Distinguish, grade and apply display colours to print colours.
10. Use the digitizer tablet with ease and efficiency.
3. Syllabus
1.- INITIAL CONFIGURATION: Digital image formats, resolution and general digital image concepts.
2.- IMAGE SETTINGS: Levels, histograms, curves and colour management. Layers and blending modes
3.- TEXT AND IMAGE: text design, text-image adaptation by means of paths, filters and texts.
4.- PHOTOGRAPHIC RESTORATION: Adjustment and retouching (tools), black and white, photo colouring.
5.- DIGITAL PAINTING: Self-portraits, head and full body with different garments, digital pencil/Wacon tablet.
6.- ILLUSTRATION. Graphic (vector) and colouring techniques, digital painting.
7.- VIRTUAL SPACES: Creation of virtual spaces and projects in exhibition spaces with own works.
8.- CLONING: Reproduction of one's own figure (full body), in different positions in the same space.
10.- VIRTUAL CHARACTERS: creation of virtual characters (figures) and interaction in specific spaces.
4. Academic activities
1.- INITIAL CONFIGURATION: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (autonomous work).
2.- IMAGE SETTINGS: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (autonomous work).
3.- LAYERS IN THE DIGITAL IMAGE: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (autonomous work).
4.- TEXT AND IMAGE: e 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (independent work).
5.- PHOTOGRAPHIC RESTORATION: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (autonomous work).
6.- DIGITAL PAINTING: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (autonomous work).
7.- ILLUSTRATION: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (independent work).
8.- VIRTUAL SPACES: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (autonomous work).
9.- CLONING: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (autonomous work).
10.- VIRTUAL CHARACTERS: 6 hours (class work) 9 hours (autonomous work).
Total, credits/hours of learning activities: (6 ECTS). 60 hours (classroom work) 90 hours (independent work).
5. Assessment system
The evaluation of the subject Computer Graphics will be carried out by means of the continuous assessment procedure of the programmed learning activities.
In the subject there will be a global evaluation test, to which all students will be entitled, which will be fixed in the academic calendar. The test will consist of the completion of one of the learning activities programmed in the Teaching Guide.
- When the grade obtained by the continuous assessment system refers to the total of the subject, the student will be able to pass it with the maximum grade.
- Students who do not opt for continuous assessment, do not pass the subject according to this system or would like to improve their grade are entitled to take a global test. In any case the best of the grades obtained will prevail.
The student who has not passed the global assessment test will have the opportunity to pass the subject by means of a global test in the second official call for exams- The test will consist of the completion of one of the learning activities programmed in the Teaching Guide.
The work of each of the programmed learning activities, whether face-to-face or autonomous, will have a similar incidence in the calculation of the overall grade of the subject.
Continuous assessment activities:
- Face-to-face learning activities.
Grading and percentage: 5 (50%)
Instruments and tests:
Activity/task rubrics
Projects/tasks
Case analysis
- Autonomous learning activities.
Grading and percentage: 5 (50%)
Instruments and tests:
Projects/tasks
Case analysis
Portfolio
Total: 10 (100%)
Assessment criteria:
Continuous assessment is applied in each of the programmed Learning Activities according to the following categories of levels of demand:
- Assimilated concepts:
-Incorporation of theoretical contents in practical activities.
-Conceptual maturity and critical disposition.
-Analysis and synthesis skills.
-Consistency in the development of the work.
- Acquired skills:
-Proper management of materials.
-Technical expertise.
-Precision in the formal aspects and cleanness in the execution.
-Evolution of the learning process.
- Attitude:
-Volume of work, contribution and personal effort.
-Creativity in the resolution of the exercises.
-Engagement in the subject, active participation in practical and theoretical classes.
-Attendance and delivery of work within the established deadlines.
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GLOBAL TEST
All students will have the right to take the global test in order to pass the course or to improve the grade obtained. Students attending the exam must appear punctually on the day and at the time indicated in the exam´s notice, otherwise they will be considered as "No-shows".
SECOND CALL
The evaluation in second call, to which all students who have not passed the subject will be entitled, will be carried out by means of a global test that will take place in the period established in the academic calendar, to that effect, by the Governing Council.