2024

Methodology of Professional Practice II

Name: Methodology of Professional Practice II
Code: VIS12772L
3 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/78 hours
Scientific Area: Arte Multimédia, Artes Plásticas

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, English
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

Overall provide students
• Information, study and experience that help them to organize themselves in a certain way - the method - aiming
at a set of knowledge, skills and competences that can be directly applied throughout the professional life,
with operational and competitive advantages.

Specific objectives
• Study the operational and financial aspects.
• Develop skills in the areas of fee calculation and budgeting.
• Study the management of human and technological resources, indispensable for the correct development of a
project.
• Study the expression of identity, its translation into image and the resources indispensable to its correct implementation.
• Develop skills in the dissemination and affirmation of the image and in the application of transversality and
multidisciplinarity of necessary knowledge.
• Develop skills in the constitution of work teams and in the coordination and application of the transversality
and multidisciplinarity of necessary knowledge.
• Study aspects that regulate and protect authorship.
• Simulation of work practices in organizations.

Contents

Design and presentation of projects
• Study of paradigmatic cases.
• Project methods:
• Identification and analysis;
• Planning, design and testing;
• Build and execute;
• Transact;
• Results analysis.
• Management and production of low and medium budgets.
• Coordination of work teams.

Communication media
• Curriculum.
• Portfolio.
• Site.

Appeal to the simulation of concrete cases
• General framework of defined issues.
• SWOT strategic diagnosis.
• Production:
• Pre-Production;
• Production;
• Post production

Oriented development of root projects with organizational support (fictitious company)
• Organizational suitability for project support:
• Individuals.
• Collective.
• Legal Aspects and Implications:
• Shareholders;
• Taxes;
• Hiring.
• Business plan.
• Implementation.

Ownership of copyright
• Personal nature.
• Patrimonial nature.
• Transmission and encumbrance.

Teaching Methods

The programme contents are introduced in theoretical-practical classes using an expository oral method, supported by visual pedagogical materials as well as relevant videos, supervised practical exercises, in-class debates, and open lectures.
Depending on the interests of the group, relevant professionals?such as artists, curators, researchers, producers, and legal experts?will be invited to deliver presentations. These sessions aim to contribute to the development of individual artistic practices, encourage professional best practices, and foster critical reflection on various methodologies.
In parallel, there will be weekly collective or tutorial guidance with a more practical focus. This guidance incorporates both critical and technological dimensions to complement the exercises and projects.
Field trips will also be organised whenever feasible.

Assessment

The assessment is continuous and conducted either individually or in small groups through exercises and a project culminating in a final assignment. The final grade is determined by the following weighted components:
- Class participation and completion of proposed exercises: 30%
- Participation in field trips and completion of related exercises: 20%
- Final assignment: 50%

The results are based on the following criteria:
- Fulfilment of proposed assignments
- Quality of work presented
- Interest, attendance, and participation
- Progress throughout the semester