Audiovisual Communcation Degree (3rd Ed.)

• Admission profile

  Although no specific prior training is required, admission to the Degree in Audiovisual Communication will be determined by the weighting of the specific optional subjects of the university entrance test, predominating those in the Arts modality and the Humanities and Social Sciences modality, without restricting access from other high school modalities.
  Desirable qualities of the future student of the Audiovisual Communication degree:
  • Interest in audiovisual products and the mechanisms necessary for their production and dissemination.
  • Interest in the visual arts and the creation of audiovisual artistic works.
  • Interest in the media and knowledge of current events.
  • Ability to observe the environment.

• Minimum number of ECTS enrollment credits per student and school period

  Although no specific prior training is required, admission to the Degree in Audiovisual Communication will be determined by the weighting of the specific optional subjects of the university entrance test, predominating those in the Arts modality and the Humanities and Social Sciences modality, without restricting access from other high school modalities.
  Desirable qualities of the future student of the Audiovisual Communication degree:
  • Interest in audiovisual products and the mechanisms necessary for their production and dissemination.
  • Interest in the visual arts and the creation of audiovisual artistic works.
  • Interest in the media and knowledge of current events.
  • Ability to observe the environment.

• Tutorial action and reception

  At the Faculty of Communication Sciences, the following lines of action are developed to support the reception and orientation of new students as they join the university and the degree:
  1. Centre website.
  https://www.usc.gal/es/centro/facultad-ciencias-comunicacion
  2. Welcome ceremony.
  During the first week of each academic year, a welcome day is organised to orient new students. Those responsible for the dean's team, degree and course coordinators and the student tutors participate in this session. The event ends with a guided tour of the centre. Details about the operation of the Faculty (computer classrooms, library loans, study rooms) and general guidelines on the study plan are explained: permanence rules, exams, advice on enrolment, calls, etc. To this session a representative of the chancellor’s team attends and informs the new students about the functioning of the University in general and, above all, about their rights and duties, as well as the activities that are organised in the university environment.
  3. Support from student tutors.
  In the second semester of each course, a group of second- or third-year students are prepared to be student tutors in the following year. The training of tutors, given by qualified personnel, brings them up to date on everything related to the USC and how to guide new students. As stated above, tutoring begins on the first day of the incoming course and continues throughout the academic year. With this system, already experienced since the 2006-2007 academic year, the aim is for the student to have a fluid relationship within the Faculty in everything related to information and orientation. Finally, the participation of administration and service personnel in the system of support and guidance for students must also be indicated, especially those who have responsibilities in the management of internship and student mobility programs, library and teaching support.
  4. Diversity attention plan.
  The Faculty of Communication Sciences is governed by the Protocol for care of people with disabilities of the University of Santiago de Compostela, prepared by the University Participation and Integration Service (SEPIU) and available at this link:
  https://www.usc.gal/es/servicios/area/inclusion-participacion-social
  This plan includes integration protocols for students with visual disabilities, hearing disabilities, physical disabilities, and people with mental illnesses.
  5. Faculty social networks (@facom_usc).

• Title suspension rules

  When a degree suspension occurs, the USC guarantees the adequate development of teachings that were initiated by their students until its suspension. For that, the Government Council approves the criteria related with the admission of new degree entry registration and the gradual suspension of teaching impartation, among others.
  If the suspended degree is substituted for a similar one —modifying the nature of the degree—, the new degree regulations will set the conditions to facilitate students the continuity of the new degree’s studies. These regulations will also set subject equivalences in both programs.

• Access and admission rules

  The entrance tests to the three Galician universities (Baccalaureate Evaluation for access to the University (ABAU) and for people over 25 and 45 years old) are organized by the Interuniversity Commission of Galicia (CIUG). To apply for a place, students must meet one of the following access requirements established in article 3 of RD 412/2014:
  • Have a high school diploma or equivalent and pass the university entrance test.
  • Meet the requirements for access to university in the educational systems of Member States of the European Union or other States with which Spain has signed international agreements on this matter.
  • Have passed the university entrance test for those over 25 years of age, for those over 40 years of age with work or professional experience or the test for those over 45 years of age.
  • Possess a degree in higher vocational training, teaching of plastic arts and design or higher sports technician, or equivalent qualifications.
  • Have an official university degree, master's degree or a title corresponding to the previous organization of university education (university diploma, technical architect, technical engineer, graduate, architect, engineer) or equivalent titles.
  • Have completed partial foreign or Spanish university studies, or who, upon completing foreign university studies, have not obtained their homologation in Spain and wish to continue studies at a Spanish university. In this case, it will be an essential requirement that the corresponding university recognize at least 30 ECTS credits.
  • Be able to access the university according to educational regulations prior to Organic Law 8/2013, not included in the previous sections.

  In general, there are the following access routes to the University:
  - University access test (ABAU) Once you have finished high school, in order to access a university degree, you must pass the Baccalaureate Evaluation for access to the University.
  https://ciug.gal/gal/abau
  - Access from Vocational Training If you have an official title of higher vocational training technician, higher plastic arts and design technician or higher sports technician, or titles, diplomas or studies declared equivalent or approved in the Spanish educational system, you can access to study a degree at the university. Applications will be ordered according
  to the average grade of the higher technical degree completed out of a maximum of 10. If you wish to improve your admission grade for degree studies, you can take the voluntary part of the ABAU test.
  https://www.usc.es/export9/sites/webinstitucional/gl/servizos/oiu/desca…
  - Access test for people over 25 years of age This test can be taken by people who are over 25 years of age in the year in which the test is held and who do not have any academic qualifications that give access to the university through another means.
  - People over 45 years of age Those over 45 years of age can study official degree qualifications after passing an adapted entrance test.
  - Access over 40 through validation of work experience.
  Access for those over 40 years of age to the Degree in Audiovisual Communication through validation of the professional experience that has been designed will be carried out taking into account the suitable professional profiles and the personal interview.
  For the selection of candidates, a Qualifying Court will be established according to the Centre’s proposal. The level of professional qualification required of the applicant will be that corresponding to the professional qualifications of the professional families and levels of the National Catalogue of Professional Qualifications (CNCP), prepared by the National Institute of Qualifications (INCUAL), from which it has been established the following list of professional families and levels with access to the Degree in Audiovisual Communication:
  List of professional families and levels with access to the degree
  • Graphic arts: Level 2 and 3
  • Commerce and Marketing: Level 2 and 3
  • Image and sound: Level 2 and 3
  • IT and communications: Level 2 and 3

This degree enables the students to the immediate incorporation to the
The main training objectives of the degree in Audiovisual Communication aims at a broad and exhaustive preparation in the different professional routines related to the pre-production, production, post-production and distribution of the audiovisual work, encouraging the creative and strategic potential of students. As well as a training in the study, criticism and analysis of the audiovisual product, thus generating specialised profiles that can be interwoven at any level or stage of the value and analysis chain of the audiovisual work.
Training objectives of the mentions
Mention in Audiovisual Strategy, Analysis and Management:
The training objectives of this mention aim at a specialisation on audiovisual the theory, criticism and analysis, as well as those aspects of the audiovisual representation linked to communication, authorship or gender perspective policies, influencing the more strategic aspects of the promotion and management of audiovisual events.
Mention in Ideation and Creation of Audiovisual Content:
The training objectives of this mention aim at a specialisation on the ideation and creation of sound and audiovisual content within the area of animation, creation of
videogames and other multimedia, documentary or non-fictional formats, influencing its most creative, expressive, technological, productive and management and staging aspects.

• Competencies

  COM.1 - Design and implement effective audiovisual communication strategies to different media, supports and contexts.
  COM.2 - Design and implement techniques and technologies for visual and sound treatment and expression applied to audiovisual works.
  COM.3 - Identify, practise and contextualise production, realisation, direction, edition and post-production audiovisual routines.
  COM.4 - Apply different methodologies to the analysis, criticism and historiography of any audiovisual or multimedia work.
  COM.5 - Choose and employ the most creative, innovative and appropriate technologies and techniques to every communicative challenge.
  COM.6 - Practise the coordination and management of professional teams in the cocreation of audiovisual products.
  COM.7 - Apply the knowledge and abilities acquired in a professional and ethical manner in the Communication field, having as a reference the democratic principles and values and the Sustainable Development Goals.

• Abilities and skills

  A/S01 - Ideally transmit audiovisual content intended for specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  A/S02 - Manage the audiovisual documentation and writing techniques.
  A/S03 - Master the instruments, techniques and professional routines of the audiovisual creation and production chain.
  A/S04 - Manage the legal, economic and political fundamentals and the audiovisual routines and techniques applied to fiction and non-fiction works.
  A/S05 - Analyse, using various methodologies, any radio, film, television or multimedia product.
  A/S06 - Manage the fundamentals techniques, technologies and routines of animation, gamification and virtual reality.

• Knowledge

  K01 - Analyse the interweaving of audiovisual communication in the field of the cultural industries.
  K02 - Know the political, normative and economic frame in which the audiovisual industry is developed.
  K03 - Know the historic transformation and evolution of audiovisual languages and media.
  K04 - Know the European audiovisual policies and their influence on the audiovisual value chain.
  K05 - Know the documentation, ideation and creation techniques and technologies characteristic of the audiovisual language.
  K06 - Know the production, distribution and display professional skills of audiovisual work.
  K07 - Know the different analysis methodologies of any radio, cinematographic, television or multimedia product.

Mobility

Student mobility is regulated through the “Regulation of inter-university exchange.” Exchange programmes are managed through the International Relations Office, such as national exchange programmes (SICUE) as well as Europeans (ERASMUS) and from outside the European Union (exchanges with Latin American countries or English-speaking countries):
https://www.usc.gal/gl/servizos/area/internacional

Internships

The Faculty annually organizes two public calls for internships in companies for undergraduate students, distributed throughout the academic year in two periods: from November to March and from April to August.
The Faculty's internship program offers only paid internships, both curricular and extracurricular.
The list of agreements in force at the Faculty can be consulted in the Practices area of the website:
https://www.usc.gal/es/centro/facultad-ciencias-comunicacion/practicas
Once the selection process is completed, the list of selected students is sent to the Academic Management Unit, indicating the deadline established for registration of the internship.
Each student is assigned an academic tutor, and with an external tutor in the collaborating entity where the internship is carried out.
They will have a duration of 300 hours or more and will appear as extracurricular credits in the European Supplement to the Degree, according to the following equivalence: 1 credit = 25 hours (maximum 30 credits).
The credits obtained in this way do not count towards obtaining the official academic title. For the rest, the management of these practices is carried out in an identical manner to the management of curricular practices. Thus, the two annual calls for internships held by the centre are carried out jointly for both types of internships.

• Graduates profile

  Audiovisual direction, script, creation, production and management. Audiovisual record and post-production. Audiovisual research, teaching and criticism.

• Professional outlets

  · Direction, screenwriting, creation and edition: specialised professionals in these tasks in the different audiovisual media (cinematographic, television, videographic, advertisement, radio, infographic and multimedia), with technical and creative abilities.
  · Audiovisual production and management: professionals that design, plan and organise human, technical and budget resources oriented to the production of audiovisual works in multiple formats, with legal and political competence.
  · Visual and sound production and post-production design: experienced professionals for the design of every aspect linked to the recording of sound and image, as well as graphism, in the different stages of the audiovisual process, with skills in interactive-digital environments, and specifically, productions intended for internet distribution.
  · Audiovisual analysis and criticism: academic and professional profiles specialised in the textual and contextual study of the audiovisual work, on a socio-cultural, normative, political, historic, economic and creative level.

The faculty organises and manages the Final Dissertations (12ECTS) of the studentship ensuring their quality, academic recognition, and good use.
The TFG also have a tutor who assists the students in carrying out the work and who is part of the PDI of the areas that teach in the degree. The assignment of tutors to students, the thematic line of the work and the evaluation will be done in accordance with what is established in the regulations of the USC TFG. The public defence of the work requires the prior and mandatory report of the tutor, and the students will deposit the TFG in the Centre, in accordance with the general regulations and the teaching guide of the subject. The grade is public and is transferred, once it is final, to the student's file.