Cursos / 1º Ciclo / / Undergraduate Degree in DESIGN
Presentation
Designers are professionals who understand the language spoken by things. Their activities include, among others, laying the R&D groundwork for wide-ranging projects, implementing the same projects, identifying the opportunity for intervention through design, exercising concept design, product design, services design – independently and in teams – and teaching design theory, history and criticism. There are, therefore, many professional opportunities in a vast range of fields. The course is comprised of three years of study in basic principles and advanced topics. The success of our students in national and international competition, and the feedback from our graduates in the workplace, give ample testimony to the value of the program and its achievements.
Career Opportunities
The program is designed to address the overall demand for designers, and as a result, is generalist in scope and broad in its targets. A designer can be an entrepreneur beginning her/his own enterprise, a free-lancer, or a full-time technician within a business unit of a service firm or institution. As a researcher, a designer can fill the role of teacher, presenting his/her work at conferences, through publications, in specialist magazines (Management, Architecture, Economics, Engineering, etc.). “The twenty-first century will be the century of Design,” (John Kao).
Regulation
Study Plan
1st ANO | Work Time (hours) |
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Code | Course | Type | Total | Contact | ECTS |
L0009 | ART HISTORY | 2nd Sem | 50 | 30(T) | 2 |
L0001 | DESIGN I | Annual | 860 | 360(TP) | 32 |
L0007 | DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES | 2nd Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
L0003 | DRAWING FROM LIFE | 2nd Sem | 160 | 60(TP) | 6 |
L0008 | ERGONOMICS | 1st Sem | 50 | 30(T) | 2 |
L0004 | GEOMETRY | 1st Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
L0006 | INTRODUCTION TO DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES | 1st Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
L0002 | INTRODUCTION TO DRAWING FROM LIFE | 1st Sem | 160 | 60(TP) | 6 |
L0005 | PROJECTION GEOMETRY | 2nd Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
2nd ANO | Work Time (hours) |
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Code | Course | Type | Total | Contact | ECTS |
L0015 | 2-D DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES | 1st Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
L0016 | 3-D DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES | 2nd Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
L0014 | APPLIED TECHNOLOGIES | 2nd Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
L0012 | COMMUNICATIVE DESIGN | 2nd Sem | 160 | 60(TP) | 6 |
L0010 | DESIGN II | Annual | 860 | 360(TP) | 32 |
L0017 | DESIGN THEORY | 1st Sem | 50 | 30(T) | 2 |
L0011 | FUNDAMENTALS OF COMMUNICATIVE DESIGN | 1st Sem | 160 | 60(TP) | 6 |
L0018 | HISTORY OF DESIGN | 2nd Sem | 50 | 30(T) | 2 |
L0013 | MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGIES | 1st Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
3rd ANO | Work Time (hours) |
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Code | Course | Type | Total | Contact | ECTS |
L0024 | COMMUNICATION THEORY | 1st Sem | 80 | 30(T) | 3 |
L0019 | DESIGN III | Annual | 910 | 360(TP) | 34 |
L0023 | DIGITAL DESIGN | 1st Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
L0025 | ETHICS, DEONTOLOGY AND LEGISLATION | 2nd Sem | 80 | 30(T) | 3 |
L0021 | FABRICATION PROCESSES | 1st Sem | 160 | 60(TP) | 6 |
L0022 | INTRODUCTION TO MULTIMEDIA | 2nd Sem | 80 | 30(TP) | 3 |
L0020 | PATTERNING | 2nd Sem | 160 | 60(TP) | 6 |
L0026 | PORTUGUESE CULTURE FOR THE DESIGNER | 2nd Sem | 50 | 30(T) | 2 |