Academic Year/course:
2023/24
278 - Degree in Fine Arts
25153 - Art psychology
Syllabus Information
Academic year:
2023/24
Subject:
25153 - Art psychology
Faculty / School:
301 - Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Humanas
Degree:
278 - Degree in Fine Arts
ECTS:
6.0
Year:
2
Semester:
First Four-month period
Subject type:
Optional
Module:
---
1. General information
Art Psychology invites the student to know the basic psychological mechanisms (perception, memory, motivation, emotion, reasoning, creativity) giving rise to awareness and a way of transforming and expressing such mechanisms dialectically: the students themselves and their artistic projects. It is aligned with the following Sustainable Development Goals: 3: Health and well-being; 4: Quality education; 5. Gender equality; 10. Reduction of inequalities; 16. Peace, justice, and solid institutions, and 17. Alliances to achieve the objectives Context and sense of the subject in the degree. The participation and development of didactic activities, face-to-face, and non-face-to-face, as well as a continued interest in the subject, is essential for achieving the proposed objectives.
2. Learning results
Upon passing the course, students will have acquired the following general skills: CG14. Interpersonal skills, awareness of capacities, and own resources for developing artistic work. GC15. Capacity for an ethical commitment and the promotion of equality between the sexes, the protection of the environment, the principles of universal accessibility, and democratic values. And in the same way, the following specific competencies: CE03. Critical understanding of the responsibility of developing one's own artistic field. The social commitment of the artist. CE13. Basic knowledge of the research methodology of sources, analysis, interpretation, and synthesis. Analyze, interpret, and synthesize the sources. CE20. Ability to creatively and imaginatively interpret artistic problems. Develop creative processes associated with solving artistic problems. CE24. Ability to collaborate with other disciplines. Development of ways of relationship and exchange with other fields of knowledge.
To pass this subject, students must identify and understand the problems of art through different basic psychological processes. Reach a critical understanding of the responsibility of developing one's own artistic field through the psychological analysis of one's own or that of others' artistic work. Also, the ability to carry out, organize and manage innovative artistic projects linked to concepts of psychology. All of the above goes through the development of personal and interpersonal skills, becoming aware of their own capacities and psychological resources for developing artistic projects.
3. Syllabus
UNIT 0: Introduction to Multimedia Learning.
UNIT 1: Sensation, perception, attention, and memory
UNIT 2: Emotion and Human Motivation
UNIT 3: Psychology of learning: association and conditioning
UNIT 4: Optimum experience, intelligence, creativity
UNIT 5: Psychopathology and artistic creation
UNIT 6: Critical vision and scientific foundation of the Art-therapies.
4. Academic activities
The primary teaching methodology will be Project Based Learning. The work plan will be presented in detail, organizing the action plan. The teaching methodologies and their training activities for the theoretical and practical classes may include (1) Seminars: Follow-up of the exhibitions with specific interventions of an explanatory, explanatory, synthetic, dialectical nature, etc. (2) a Bibliographic search of sources and resources to facilitate the student's theoretical synthesis. (3) Readings: Tutorial advice on the students' search processes and documentary preparation. (4) Directed practical projects and work. Supervising the preparation of the work and its presentation.
5. Assessment system
A continuous evaluation system is adopted, based on the weekly presentation of brief practices, linked to the theoretical contents, and three basic projects in audiovisual format (with a delivery schedule). The student's work will be monitored individually, attendance being essential (minimum 80%). This system exempts the student from taking the global test and follows three evaluation criteria:
• Assimilated concepts (40%): use the psychological concepts learned correctly, with a technically and academically appropriate language for the disciplines of Fine Arts and psychology.
• Acquired skills (30%): Application of different elements of visual language, materials, tools, and processes. Clarity, conciseness, and coherence of the message transmitted in relation to the proposed topic. Autonomy and maturity in solving problems. critical capacity.
• Attitude (30%): Compliance with the established presentation criteria (duration, file format, size, and correct identification of the same) and punctual delivery of the works. Involvement with the subject: Active participation in practical and expository classes.
Comprehensive test. First and second call
Students will have the right to take the global test, prevailing the best of the grades obtained. The global test has two parts: a theoretical-practical one of a graphic nature and another theoretical of an oral nature. With the independent overcoming of both parts, students will be able to opt for the highest grade.
_______
GLOBAL TEST
All students will have the right, even if they do not carry out the continuous evaluation. Students who do not opt for continuous evaluation, who do not pass the course by this procedure or who would like to improve their grade, will have the right to take the global test. Students who attend the exam must be punctually at the presentation, otherwise they will be considered as not presented.
SECOND CALL
The evaluation in second call, to which all students who have not passed the course will be entitled, will be carried out by means of a global test to be taken in the period established for this purpose by the Governing Council in the academic calendar.