P101 - ECTS — Analyze the image beyond its representation;
— Investigate and validate the image as a contemporary unit of literacy;
— Recognize the importance of the image at an academic, cultural and professional level;
— Understand the relevance of visual narratives around contemporary projects;
— Understand the importance of preserving documents capable of providing us with a view of the world from an individual, local, regional and global standard;
— Knowing how to recognize a transmissible visual heritage of individual and collective memory;
— Working the image as a structuring entity of communication design and multiple branches of knowledge;
— Develop design projects supported by the use of image, crossing increasingly complex scientific areas.
— Produce prototypes, models and projects in the field of extended communication design, applied to the market and the respective needs of its audiences.

MDICD - ECTS This course unit intends to map the technocultural context and how computational and digital systems have been transforming it. Starting from historical, technological and philosophical approaches to computational technologies and their impacts on art, design, culture, and society, this course unit will offer mechanisms for their analysis and critique.

MDIDV - ECTS

The main objective of the Subject of Visual Devices is to provide students with theoretical and practical knowledge in which the image, fixed and in movement, assumes a decisive role for the development of research projects.

The discipline is divided between the exploration of technological support, inseparable from the capture of images, and research methods allied to the construction of a critical spirit through the analysis, understanding and discussion of examples in the context of the area of experimentation and reflection around specific projects. This approach is associated with an informed and integrative perspective on the relationship between visual devices and research and project practice.

HTI104 - ECTS This UC intends to analyze and recover relevant historical principles around the History of Image, making this formation converge with the practice of image production in the contemporary context, namely for:

1. Analyze the space of representation and the meaning of essential projects in the history of images;

2. Understand the recontextualization and appropriation of images, in the field of visual arts and design, and analyze the way they enhance new readings;

3. Encourage knowledge and the recovery of visual practices that face their disappearance;

4. Interpret and relate images as a legitimate trace of a historical-social construction.

MDII - ECTS

This course is dedicated to the study of user centred design in the computational systems and the respective design of the interaction.

DIMIII - ECTS

• Acquisition of structural knowledge of research.
• Acquisition of structuring skills for developing research projects.
• Acquisition of formal and informal competencies in scientific contexts.
• Consolidation and expansion of concepts and objectives inherent to the research being developed by students.
• Identification, testing, and configuration of methods that benefit the students' projects.
• Identification, testing, and configuration of types and functions of the image in the students' projects.
• Identification of potential methodological models for use in future contexts.
• Creation and consolidation of research networks in design, visual culture, and multidisciplinary fields.

NI105 - ECTS

Introduction to (audio) visual narratives theory and history.
Motivate different methods of analysis. Accentuate a critical and contextualized reading. Statement of an individual and creative discourse.

MDIPDE - ECTS

DIMIIII - ECTS

The main objective of this course is to assist students in the development of their research, dissertation and project, particularly in regards to methological application and adequacy.