BA level
BA studies take place over a period of 3 years for all specializations. Each specialization has it’s own study plan, divided in stuffy modules: fundamental subjects – theoretical and practical, specialization subjects and complementary specialization’s that can be compulsory or optional, as well as a series of facultative disciplines. The candidates who have passed the BA examination receive the BA Diploma and the diploma supplement.

Specialization’s

1. Fine arts

a. painting, mural painting - the painting, mural painting program trains specialists in easel and mural painting, thus promoting art and culture through its specific methods and means. The high standards of art education relies on the following principles: the adequate combination of the didactic activity with artistic creation, the permanent connection with contemporary times, presentation and debate of new concepts.
b. sculpture – the sculpture program trains students, theoretically and practically, in the general field of sculpture. The curriculum relies on pedagogical principles and practical training methods that follow the tradition of the Sculpture School from Cluj. Through optional courses, the student can specialize in a certain genre such as: small scale sculpture, portraits, figurative sculpture for public spaces, environmental sculpture or compositions in unconventional environments and techniques.
c. graphic arts – the graphic arts program trains specialists in easel graphic composition, book-cover design and graphic design. The Graphic Arts School in Cluj-Napoca has constantly promoted a few trends that came to form its distinct profile. Concordance between taught subjects, conceptual and professional synthesis. The graphic arts program offers solid training with respect to the student’s skills and interests.
d. photo-video-digital image processing – the photo-video-digital image processing program offers competencies in the creation of photo, video and digital image.
· photo: graduates are trained to create all types if silver-based or digital creative photography, from the metaphoric image to the promotional and the documentary one;
· video: students acquire skills to capture the (video) dynamic image and process it in the laboratory with a view to create the advertising promotional image and video art;
· digital image processing: the computer is used both as a tool for photo and video processing and as an independent tool of creation with specific qualities; graduates can also create products specific to the multimedia field: CD-ROMS and Web Sites.

2. Fine and Decorative Arts Education – the education – fine and decorative arts program offers training to specialists in visual art education in schools. The curriculum encourages the mobility of the students’ preoccupations for their own creative work, and the psycho-pedagogical subject’s emphasis stimulate didactic strategies. The openness towards new artistic and pedagogical experiences together with the thorough professional training are the main features of this program, which confers graduates the skills necessary for a creative artistic and a pedagogical enterprise.

3. Conservation and Restoration – the goal of the program is to train specialists in conservation and restoration techniques. The graduates acquire skills in different traditional and contemporary conservation-restoration techniques of the art object, seen in relationship with the environment, the architectural space and museum conditions. Students are also trained in the correct application of conservation-restoration theory and methodology, in relation with the specific problems of “in situ” restoration works.

4. Textile arts

a. textile design
b. fashion design – the textiles program trains students in order to become artists, designers or teachers in the field of visual arts, owners of an own vision on the profession they have chosen, creative and mobile in the promotion of the artistic concept, utilizing operative skills specific to the fields of: fashion design, textile design, tapestry-weaving. Thus:
· the graduates who specialize in fashion design become stylists / fashion designers acquiring skills for the entire process of designing, cutting and promoting a fashion collection in the fashion bureaus or businesses;
· the graduates who specialize in printmaking become textile printmaking designers and also gain the capacity to use computer-based image processing techniques;
· the tapestry weaving design specialization offers skills in the creation of artistic environmental forms and structures using textiles, graduates are conferred the qualification of woven structures designers .

5. Ceramic-glass-metal 

The curriculum of the ceramic-glass-metal program is meant, through its structure, contents and to train specialists in the three applied arts. Through the complex nature of their practical training and the diverse materials they use, graduates manifest themselves either as artists in sculptural and decorative ceramics or artistic installations, as designers for the ceramics and glass industry, or as teachers.
As of 1990, the curriculum of the three types of specialization (ceramics, glass and metal) has been extensively reformed according to contemporary themes and present-day cultural tendencies with a view to the specific complexity of the field. The current curriculum in the European Credit Transferable System offers a comprehensive range of theoretical and practical subject matters which is meant to ensure a high standard of visual arts education particularly emphasizing creative professionalism in the field of ceramic, glass and metal.

6. Design – the design program trains students for a professional career in industrial or product design, environmental design and graphic design, developing their conceptual abilities to connect the artistic and the technical dimensions with a view to culture and material civilization. Graduates are able to define and solve complex design problems and to produce the design and the documentation necessary for the production of the product or process. They receive complex training, which enables them to become successful designers and creators in a variety of fields individually or in a team. Students specialize in a particular field of design through compulsory, tailor-made and optional courses.

The Department of Theoretical Subjects ensures the conception, the organization, and the co-ordination of the teaching of the main theoretical subjects and those relating tot the students’ general education from all the programs. Through their content and didactic methodology, these subjects aim at helping students acquire concrete intellectual and working skills.