Postgraduate study programme

Magistrski program je oblikovan z namenom, da študentom omogoči osebni razvoj v smeri samostojnega in kritičnega umetniškega ustvarjalca pa tudi delovanje na sorodnih podro­čjih kulturnega delovanja, ki zahtevajo znanja in spretnosti, ki so jih študentje pridobili.

S tem namenom študentom omogočamo skupno pasivno in aktivno obiskovanje razstav, organiziramo tematske in druge skupinske razstave ter ogled pomembnih likovnih razstav doma in v tujini. Program je sestavljen le v nujnem delu iz obveznih sestavin, saj je na tej stopnji primerno, da si študentje sami oblikujejo svoj kurikulum.

Jedro programa predstavlja študentova lastna umetniška produkcija in z njo povezan magistrski projekt, sestavljen iz umetniškega dela in njegove teoretske obrazložitve.

Na drugi stopnji ima program tri smeri: Slikarstvo, Grafika, Video in novi mediji.

Undergraduate study programme

Program slikarstva na prvi stopnji študija je organiziran tako, da s kombiniranjem ateljejskih, teoretskih in strokovnih predmetov študentom omogoča pridobivanje splošnega in posebnega znanja in spretnosti, ki so nujne za njihov razvoj v smeri profesionalne prakse ali praks, pri katerih so potrebne estetske spretnosti in inovativen pristop. Cilj programa prve stopnje je, da ob vrsti obveznih in izbirnih predmetov, komunikaciji z umetniki in razstavami ter ne nazadnje ob skupnem delu in druženju študentje pridobijo osnovne usmeritve oziroma se usposobijo za študij na drugi stopnji.

Na prvi stopnji ima program dve smeri: Slikarstvo ter Video in novi mediji.

Postgraduate study programme

The Master’s study programme aims to help students develop as independent artists having, or mastering, not only the basic knowledge and experiences that allow the creation of independent works of art, but also the knowledge and experiences covering the areas that might be associated with their additional skills: gallery systems, presenting and exhibiting, the social and critical functions of art and the importance of art in the integration processes of society.

The programme leads to more in-depth knowledge and practices, encouraging creativity and artistic expression as well as artistic research that, under the conditions of a continual development of art, expansion of styles, tools, media and different approaches, is that element of an artistic activity that allows a creative complexity, a vision and an open attitude towards art today.

The Master’s programme is a project study combining all the processes of artistic and theoretical work from an idea, theme or reflection to the production and presentation in a gallery. In the Master’s Thesis, students present the independence and individuality of their creative work and the capacity to articulate and realise their ideas and concepts.

Undergraduate study programme

The first-cycle study programme in sculpture is an interdisciplinary artistic study. It gives students the opportunity to develop into broad and knowledgeable personalities. In the processes of learning and creating, students of sculpture research get to know, combine and bring together broad theoretical areas; they acquire and combine theoretical/conceptual and practical/technical procedures.

While learning about the past and modern sculptural languages and developing your own expressions, the course will encourage you to be curious and analytical, carrying out contextual research and identifying various themes, forms and procedures. At the same time, by employing different aspects such as theoretical, practical, formal, material and conceptual, you will learn about the complex relationships between the material, content-related, formal, ontological and imaginary layers, and about the social conditions for sculptural forms and their perception. The programme is based on individual student work, assignments and projects that encourage the student’s reflection and analysis, an experimental approach and also the development of sculptural forms and procedures outside the existing solutions and conventions.

Postgraduate study programme

With the Master’s study programme we produce professionals who are capable of independent handling and managing of demanding conservation/restoration tasks.

Undergraduate study programme

At the undergraduate level, students learn the methods of research, preventive conservation and active conservation/restoration in the areas of easel paintings, polychrome wooden plastics, wall paintings and stone plastics.

Postgraduate study programme

The Master’s study programme is organised as a highly multidisciplinary study aiming at in-depth project work addressing pressing social and user-related problems. Students acquire the capacities to understand and deal practically with the issues of industrial design and applied arts through theoretical, developmental and design projects, using structured and complex methodologies and developing individual design skills.

To a large extent, these tasks are based on real projects carried out in association with numerous partners from the private and public sectors. Through this work, you will learn to manage all the stages of design methodology and find solutions for the identified problems as well as independently managing complex projects. The Master’s study is also appropriate for the students who have previously completed social sciences, natural sciences, technical studies or economics.

Undergraduate study programme

Our mission is to facilitate the development of talented individuals and working groups qualified for research design work, focusing on creating innovative, sustainable products and services.

We are the only institution in Slovenia carrying out the study programme in industrial design and applied arts. The aim of the programme at the first-cycle level is the acquisition of the basic knowledge necessary for understanding the profession and working in the areas of industrial design and applied arts through design methodologies, and the development of individual design capacities. This multidisciplinary study stimulates you to holistically develop your design capacities. Through practical courses and with the help of the tutors who are the leading design experts in Slovenia, we help develop the student’s abilities to identify and solve problems and upgrade these with the knowledge acquired during history and theory courses. The study is based on one-to-one teaching and a personal approach to students, which is crucial for teaching the topics included in the programme. You can choose between two courses: Industrial Design and Applied Arts. Vertical, in-depth continuation of the study is possible at the second-cycle level. The Department for Industrial Design and Applied Arts has been, for the second consecutive year, ranked among the top 50 schools in the area of architecture and design in Europe, and it is proud of its long tradition.

Postgraduate study programme

The Master’s study programme guides students towards deepening their knowledge and developing personal creative abilities, technical skills and the theoretical knowledge necessary for independent creative work in different areas of visual communications: photography, graphic design, illustration and interactive design.

Through research and experimentation, this study encourages innovation and talent, a search for new approaches to the conception and visual expression of communication topics.

Undergraduate study programme

The first-cycle study programme in Visual Communication Design covers the areas of photography, graphic design, illustration and interactive design. Through seminar assignments, studio work and lectures the students acquire the basic knowledge applicable in various practical fields: printed media, websites, photography, illustration.

After the general first year the study becomes specialised in individual areas that can later be upgraded at the Master’s level. The study programme encourages you to critically evaluate the results of design work and brings you in touch, through different projects, with the working environment.

Humanities and social sciences

Department for Theoretical Sciences UL ALUO participates in the Interdisciplinary doctoral programme in the Humanities and Social Sciences, coordinated by the Faculty of Arts and the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. The doctoral programme leads to the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the subject field Fine Art Studies.

General information:

The doctoral programme in Fine Art Studies is designed as a deepening and upgrading of the second-cycle study programmes in fine arts and fine-art theory. Its aim is to educate highly qualified researchers/scholars/teaching staff, competent for internationally comparable and interchangeable research of relevant theoretical and practical problems in the wide area of fine arts and their conceptual, historiographical and heritological infrastructure.

The field of fine arts provides the possibility of a third-cycle programme in specialist epistemology, logic and methodology in the areas of fine-arts theory, art theory, history and the theory of conservation-restoration as well as the history and theory of design, with the emphasis on systematic monitoring of the specialist and methodological bases of these studies (from the historical and comparative perspectives), on the study of their current paradigms, models in discourses, related to the trends in fine-art practice and on the reflection on the research context, which, due to the complexity of the researched subject, each of the above studies encounters in the form of a more or less expressed need for an interdisciplinary epistemic and methodological synergy. The direct purpose of such training is contextualisation, which leads to the PhD student’s more comprehensive reflection on concrete research problems, hypotheses and strategies, while the secondary purpose is a permanent critical reflection on the research methods of the PhD student’s profession and his/her individual research as well as the deconstruction of the operational default premises in both areas, leading, as a rule, to innovations at the problem tackling, methodological and, last but not least, practical levels.

The study is fully harmonised with the structure and organisation of the interdisciplinary doctoral programme for Humanities and Social Sciences. A student of a given subject in the area of Fine Art Studies enrols into two core courses (2 × 10 ECTS credits), two elective doctoral seminars (2 × 10 ECTS credits) and an external elective course (10 ECTS credits). The core courses provide a doctoral student with an in-depth understanding and operational use of Interdisciplinary doctoral programme in the Humanities and Social sciences, academic year 2022/2023 Stran 61 od 63 research epistemology and methodology in the field of the selected subject and an insight into the operational interdisciplinary connections within the general matrix of the disciplines in the area of Fine Art Studies. Doctoral seminars provide the possibility of an active involvement of the core subject lecturers with students helping them identify and define relevant research challenges, prepare the outlines of their dissertations and, in particular, plan and carry out their research.

A student selects the external elective course because of the need for epistemic deepening or because of the need for a methodological expansion and contextualisation of his/her research infrastructure; he/she can select it from a range of courses included in the interdisciplinary doctoral programme for Humanities and Social Studies or outside the programme, at the other members of the University of Ljubljana, at any of the Slovenian universities or at any of the acknowledged foreign universities, thus obtaining the possibility to carry out the research work abroad and learn about different research practices. However, the largest amount of doctoral study (180 ECTS credits) is carried out in the form of individual research work, in the frame of which the student prepares, under the guidance of a mentor, a doctoral dissertation while in practice developing and verifying, via applications, general and subject-specific competences, prescribed by the programme and curricula.

The programme lasts 4 years (240 ECTS credits) and represents the third level of the Bologna cycle. The programme consists of organised classes (60 credits) and individual research work for the doctoral thesis (180 credits).

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