Fine Arts Academies constitute the highest level of artistic education in Italy.
The Rome University of Fine Arts is the only Academy of Fine Arts legally recognized by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (M.U.R.) - High Artistic and Musical Education (A.F.A.M.).

ACADEMIC DIPLOMA (1st Level Degree)

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The Academic Diploma Course of 1st level offered at RUFA last three years and concern the following subjects:

• Painting
• Stage and Set Design
• Sculpture
• Design
• Graphic Design
• Cinema and Television Arts

The Fine Arts Academy Diploma obtained is equivalent to the Diploma of HIGHER EDUCATION in all European countries, corresponding to the BACHELOR OF ARTS HONOURS. Graduates are entitled to enroll in 2nd Level Academic Degree Courses, for a full Degree (five years) in several Arts Universities across Europe and in those countries outside Europe which have a bilateral agreement with Italy regarding recognition of academic qualifications. The Fine Arts Academy Diploma grants accessto public competitions for teachers of artistic disciplines in public and private institutions

Characterizing Educational Objectives
The Academic Diploma Course of 1st level has the objective to assure an adequate mastery of methods and artistic techniques, as well as the acquisition of specific disciplinary and professional competences.
It is the RUFA’s mission to prepare qualified artists and professionals who, taking account of the pluralism of expressive languages and the innovations in the techniques that characterize the contemporary age, are in a position to develop their own avenues of individual seeking as much within the arts tied to the techniques of tradition as in the elaboration and the experimentation of new expressive languages.

The graduates in the diploma course for each sector must:
- possess an adequate basic practical and technical preparation relative to the fields of study to be taken up in the various areas of the Arts, techniques and technologies;
- possess the appropriate methodological and critical tools to use for the acquisition of competences in the expressive languages, as well as of the most advanced techniques technologies within the contexts of the manifestations tied to the specific sector;
- be in a position to effectively use at least one language of the European Union, beyond the mother tongue, acquiring a sufficient communicative competence for the exchange of general information and the discussion of topics pertaining to the realm of the Arts;
- possess adequate competences and tools for information management and communication, in particular as regarding computer systems and technology.
The graduates will carry out professional activities in various settings:
- free-lance artistic professions and research in the field of the visual arts;
- collaboration in creative activities and in the planning, design and implementation of specific tasks.
The Academy organizes, in cooperation with private and public agencies, internships and other appropriate training opportunities in order to assist the student in attaining specific professional skills and requirements.

Admission to the Academy
Minimum prerequisite is a Secondary School Diploma.

Duration
The Academic Diploma of 1st Level is achieved after having obtained at least 180 credits.

ACADEMIC DIPLOMA (2nd Level Degree)

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in ARTI VISIVE E DISCIPLINE DELLO SPETTACOLO

The 2nd level Academic Diploma Course offered at RUFA last two years and concern the following subjects:

• Painting
• Stage and Set Design
• Sculpture
• Design
• Graphic Design

Instructional objectives and professional characteristics
The Academic Diploma course of 2nd level has the objective to furnish the student with an artistic preparation at an advanced level for the full mastery of artistic methods and techniques and for the acquisition of high professional competences.
RUFA aims to endow the students with an adequate professional preparation to useful for entering the job market, offering specific courses in the curriculum of the two years of the Second Level Degree, closely correlated to the actual productive reality presents on the regional and national territory.
Practical activities, seminars and internships at workshops chosen for the purpose, will offer to the students the opportunity to be guided during the development of their own research, through an innovative methodology of experimentation.
The result to be achieved is therefore that of preparing a professional figure of a high artistic, creative and design profile:
- a freelance capable of exercising the profession on his/her own through the creation and management of artistic and professional workshops and studios and also capable of placing on the market products with innovative characteristics such as to re-qualify the lines of the artistic production
- an expert in the field that with his/her technical-artistic preparation can be of great support to industries often lacking in creativity

Admission to the degree course
Applications are welcome from graduates with degrees from the Fine Arts Academies as well as University Degrees in disciplines similar to Fine Arts (i.e.: Architecture).

Instructional approach
In the two-year course of study, instruction will include both the practical workshop format (Painting, Sculpture, Stage Design, Art Design, Graphics and Computer Studies) and theoretical-critical classroom study, in order to deepen the historical and theoretical foundations of art, the theatre, the cinema, television, giving attention to the fields of economy, sociology, anthropology, aesthetics and history and philosophy of the Arts.

Duration
The Academic Diploma of 2° Level is achieved after having obtained at least 120 credits.

ACADEMIC DIPLOMA (2nd Level Degree)

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TWO-YEARS SPECIALIZATION COURSE

From next Academic Year 2011/2012, Rome University of Fine Arts, Libera Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, under Decree of the Minister of University and Research, No GAB/2101 and No GAB/2102, March 26, 2008, will start off the two-years Specialization Courses (2nd Level Academic Diploma) in:

• Art of Cinema
• Set Design for Cinema and Television

Instructional objectives and professional characteristics
The two-years Specialization Courses allow students already graduated with a First Level Academic Diploma to continue and complete their studies through a two-year course, which may help them to have an immediate operational approach.
RUFA aims to endow the students with an adequate professional preparation to useful for entering the job market, offering specific courses in the curriculum of the two years of the Second Level Degree, closely correlated to the actual productive reality presents on the regional and national territory.
Among the instruments committed to that end, the faculty will occupy a prominent place.
The Professors will be well-known professionals operating in the fields of the various disciplines involved, and therefore they will be able to bring as contribution their considerable practical experience, together with their cultural background.
Another creative incentive will be offered by new technologies and business practices.
Practical activities and internships at workshops chosen for the purpose, will offer to the students the opportunity to be carefully guided during the development of their own research, through an innovative methodology of experimentation.

Admission to the degree course
Applications are welcome from graduates with degrees from the Fine Arts Academies as well as University Degrees in disciplines similar to Fine Arts (i.e.: Architecture).

Duration
The Academic Diploma of 2° Level is achieved after having obtained at least 120 credits.