44.03.04 Bachelor degree

Vocational training (by industry) Interior decoration and graphic design

Areas of professional activity

The program is focused on training specialists in the field of "Interior and graphic design", highly demanded in the regional job market. Graduates who have mastered the program can carry out professional activities in the following areas:

• Interior decoration
• Graphic design

Tasks of professional activity

Graduates are prepared to solve the following types of professional tasks:

• Artistic activities
• Project activities
• Information technology activities
• Organizational and managerial activities

Competencies formed

Graduates of the training program acquire the following competencies, i.e. ability to apply knowledge, skills and personal qualities in accordance with the tasks of professional activity:

Professional competencies

The graduate of the training program possesses:

• artistic activities:

- the ability to master drawing and working methods with the justification of the artistic concept of a design project, in its layout and modeling, with color and color compositions;

- the ability to justify their proposals when developing a project idea based on a conceptual, creative approach to solving a design problem;

- the ability to take into account, when developing an artistic concept, the features of materials, taking into account their shaping properties;

• project activities:

- the ability to analyze and determine the requirements for a design project and synthesize a set of possible solutions to a problem or approaches to the implementation of a design project;

- the ability to design objects, goods, industrial designs, collections, complexes, structures, objects, as well as for creating an accessible environment;

- the ability to apply modern technologies required for carrying the design project into practice;

- the ability to perform reference samples of the design object or its individual elements in the layout, material;

- the ability to develop the design of the product, taking into account manufacturing technologies: to carry out technical drawings, to develop a technological map for the execution of a design project;

• information technology activities:

- the ability to draw up a detailed specification of the requirements for the design project and prepare a complete set of design project documentation, with basic economic calculations for the implementation of the project;

- the ability to use information resources: modern information technologies and graphic editors for the implementation and creation of documentation for design projects;

• organizational and managerial activities:

- willingness to lead a team in the field of their professional activities and make management decisions based on regulatory legal acts;

• research activities:

- the ability to apply scientific research methods when creating design projects and justify the novelty of their own conceptual solutions;

• teaching activities:

- the ability to plan the educational process, perform methodological work and independently conduct lectures and practical classes in general educational organizations, vocational education organizations, organizations of additional education.

General professional competencies

The graduate of the training program possesses:

• the ability to master a drawing, the ability to use drawings in the practice of drawing up a composition and processing them in the direction of designing any object, to have the skills of linear constructive construction and to understand the principles of choosing a technique for performing a particular drawing;
• basics of academic painting, methods of working with color and color compositions;
• the ability to employ the initial professional skills of a sculptor, working methods in layout and modeling;
• the ability to apply modern type culture and computer technologies used in design;
• the ability to implement pedagogical skills in teaching art and design disciplines;
• the ability to solve standard tasks of professional activity on the basis of information and bibliographic culture using information and communication technologies and taking into account the basic requirements of information security;
• the ability to search, store, process and analyze information from various sources and databases, present it in the required format using information, computer and network technologies.

Compulsory block of disciplines

The obligatory block includes the following disciplines of general professional focus:

• History of design, science and technology
• Art history
• Organization and planning of production in the field of art and design
• Painting
• Sketching
• Flower science and coloring
• Fundamentals of drawing and descriptive geometry
• perspective
• Software and graphic tools
• Sculpture and plastic modeling
• Interior decoration
• Interior Design
• Prototyping
• Decor in the modern design industry
• Fundamentals of arts and crafts

The obligatory part of the undergraduate program includes philosophy, history of Russia, general history, a foreign language, life safety, and physical education.

Additional block of disciplines

The elective courses of the academic program are aimed at expanding and deepening the competencies established by the educational standard, and include the following disciplines:

• Fundamentals of manufacturing excellence
• Project practice course
• Materials science
• Design
• Composition
• Graphic design
• Poster
• Font
• Package design
• Computer graphics

Elective modules/disciplines:

Module 1	Project graphics fundamentals Technical drawing
Module 2	Design and advertising technologies Modern design technologies in graphic design
Module 3	Printing technologies Fundamentals of printing

Practice and research work

Practice is a type of training that is directly focused on professional and practical training. Practice consolidates the knowledge and skills acquired during theoretical courses, develop practical skills and contribute to the integrated formation of general, professional and special competencies.

Educational, productive practice and research work are provided.

Educational practice is aimed at the formation of primary skills and abilities of future professional activity. Educational subject practices are partly carried out stationary during the session based on the chairs of the Department of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of Elabuga Institute of KFU, partly independently, in the form of performing specific practical tasks.

Productive practice allows you to get the primary experience of professional activity and ensure the readiness of the graduate for practical work. Productive practice is conducted stationary at the institute and on-site.

The practices are based on:

• Elabuga Institute of KFU

State Final Certification

The final state certification includes the defense of the bachelor's final qualifying work, taking into account the profile of training.

Upon completion the main professional educational program, the graduate is awarded the Bachelor’s degree.