By the end of this course, students will be able to communicate, understand, and integrate different medieval engraving techniques; engraving in the Renaissance; drawing of the masters of the Renaissance; the engraving and drawing workshop.

By the end of this course, students will be able to interpret the drawings of the great masters of the Renaissance through technical solutions provided by the teaching of classical drawing, thus developing proposals of artistic production in the drawings.

Upon completion of this course, students will learn the procedures, techniques, and materials for the production of New graphics, such as the mimeograph, photocopier, fax machine, and templates. They will be able to apply these techniques in graphic works.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to recognize the simple shapes into which an object can be decomposed to then create and develop more complex representations through drawings of different objects.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to describe the European influence on the discovery of America in order to explain the changes that modified science, history, the arts, and trade as a result of the encounter of the two continents. This will be done through readings, research, and discussions on different expressions of art.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyze the influence of the globalization phenomenon on local or regional cultures and review the main roots on which the western world grew and flourished.

Students will analyze the evolution of photography from its first manifestations up to the present day and its interrelation with other cultural practices.

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyze the condition of artistic production during the last 20 years of the 20th century from the point of view of the influence of political and social events of that time. They will also identify the relations between these events and the artistic production of peripheral or emerging countries.

Students will develop the ability to plan and structure research through the use of different qualitative techniques.

Students will become acquainted with some of the theoretical foundations, methodologies, and instruments of qualitative research and they will create narrative records of the studied phenomena through techniques such as observation, interviews, and focus groups.