The Screen Studies programme is a bilingual pathway . The globalisation of content and audiences, as well as the proliferation of multinational communication companies, has led to a high demand for graduates capable of addressing international and multicultural audiences. For this reason, School Communication offers the possibility of studying the Degree in Audiovisual Communication + Screen Studies in order to prepare communication professionals with an international profile .

The Degree in Audiovisual Communication can be fill in with its own degree scroll : the Performing Arts Production Program, a program that prepares for leadership and management in the performing arts. It is also compatible with the Screen Studies Program.

What will you learn?

In your first year with the subject Introduction to the performing arts you will have a first contact with the different performing categories from the most relevant artists and professionals in the sector.

In the 2nd year you will Stage Management to acquire both theoretical and practical knowledge of how a stage production is structured, planned and carried out or how a stage space is managed.

During the third year, the subject design stage approaches you to scenic elements such as costumes, construction, props, lighting and visual projections.

In the 4th year, the subject Sale and promotion of the performing artswhich explores in greater depth the business side of the performing arts, the various business models and the possibilities of commercial exploitation.

You will be able to work as...

• Producer and distributor of performing arts.

• consultant and cultural arts manager.

• coordinator professional cultural events.

• Administrator and manager of performing arts venues.

• Performing arts critic.

• Director stage manager.

• Scenic designer or set designer (traditional scenography, virtual scenography, audiovisual scenography).

• Playwright and adaptive screenwriter.

During the degree, students do practical work on series and programmes on a television set, shoot a documentary and a fiction short film, do introductory work on animation and transmedia narrative for the internet and write scripts for television and film.

In addition, as an end-of-yearproject Degree they produce a short fiction or documentary film, or an entertainment pilot, which is their first full project before making the leap to professional life. The Kino Awards were created in 1996 to celebrate these final year works. With these awards, the teachers and students of Degree in Audiovisual Communication celebrate this arrival at goal, which is a new starting point.

Every year, many professionals come to the classrooms to talk and help students with these tasks.

In order to offer a quality teaching in this Degree, the School of Communication provides its students with facilities and physical resources that guarantee this quality. These include 17 classrooms for teaching, 9 rooms for development and analysis, 5 radio programs of study and 3 editing rooms, 6 audiovisual editing rooms and conference room for production control, 2 television sets, laboratory multimedia, 2 computer rooms, and seminar for economic information. In addition, the School has Media Room for the use of students (with 10 viewing equipment and a film collection of more than 2,500 titles) and a sound library.