Branch of knowledge: Social and Legal Sciences
Responsible Center: Faculty of communication sciences
Teaching modality and Campus: Face-to-face Fuenlabrada y Madrid-Vicalvaro
Double degree with: Business Management, Journalism
Credits: 240. Credits year: 60. Duration: 4 years. Implantation: progressive, first year 2008-2009
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Coordinator: Prof. Dr. D. Daniel Sánchez Salas
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Basic Information
What knowledge will I acquire with this Degree?
The general objective of the degree in Audiovisual Communication, in accordance with the White Book of Degrees in Communication, is to seek exhaustive knowledge of the techniques and processes of audiovisual creation and dissemination in its various phases. In short, to train professionals capable of developing their work both in the creation of formats and contents, as well as in the direction and production of programs, post-production, programming and audiovisual management, in all cases for radio, television and other audiovisual media. including digital ones.
Where will I be able to work when I graduate?
The professional opportunities for graduates in Audiovisual Communication are linked to the field of audiovisual journalism (news and documentaries on TV and radio) and to that of artistic-technical creation (cinema, documentaries, entertainment programs, audiovisual shows).
They also cover field work in radio stations, television and cinema. Graduates are trained to direct stations, occupy positions such as sound technician, image, assembly, etc. Likewise, they can work in press offices in audiovisual companies, where they will assume internal or external communication functions.
After completing their studies, a graduate in Audiovisual Communication is enabled to perform the functions that are grouped into the following profiles: director, screenwriter and audiovisual producer; audiovisual producer and manager; production design and visual and sound post-production, and researcher, teacher and expert in visual studies.
Is this Degree official according to the regulations required by the European Higher Education Area?
Yes (final verification report is attached), the implementation of the degree will be done progressively, starting the first year in the academic year 2008-09.
The final verification report turned out FAVORABLE
Favorable report first modification
Favorable report second modification
Favorable report third modification
Favorable report fourth modification
Favorable report fifth modification
On July 1, 2008, the National Agency for Quality Assessment and Accreditation (ANECA), through the VERIFICA Program, issued a favorable report on the Study Plan for the Audiovisual Communication Degree at Rey Juan Carlos University. The evaluation of the Degree was carried out by the Committee for Issuing Degree Reports of ANECA, made up of national and international experts from the academic field, professionals of the Audiovisual Communication degree and students.
What subject areas will I address in this grade?
The Degree seeks comprehensive and exhaustive training, and has been organized according to five subject modalities: Foundations and Theory of Communication, Production and Realization, Audiovisual Company, Creation and Design of Audiovisual Content, and Audiovisual Technologies.
Recommended Income Profile
The Degree in Audiovisual Communication is aimed at students who have passed the University Entrance Exams in all the COU and Baccalaureate LOGSE and Experimental options. Likewise, it is aimed at those students from degrees and bachelor's degrees in the branches of Social and Legal Sciences, and Arts and Humanities, and those who have passed the Higher Level Training Cycles or their equivalents in Second Degree Professional Training and Level Professional Modules. 3 (Higher Technician of Image, Higher Technician of Production of Audiovisuals, Radio and Shows, Higher Technician of Plastic Arts and Design in Art Edition, etc.).
Objectives
The objectives of the Degree in Audiovisual Communication can be summed up in a single goal: to seek exhaustive knowledge of the techniques and processes of creating and disseminating audiovisual content on television, radio, cinema and digital media.
Competences
GENERAL COMPETENCIES
- CG1 Ability to analyze audiovisual stories
- CG2 Ability to use techniques and processes in the organization of multimedia production
- CG3 Ability to design and conceive the aesthetic and technical presentation of the staging
- CG4 Ability to carry out the analysis of the structures, contents and styles of television and radio programming
- CG5 Capacity and ability to plan and manage, in film production
- CG6 Ability to plan and manage technical and human resources in single-camera and multi-camera productions for TV,
- CG7 Ability to apply image composition techniques and procedures to different audiovisual media
- CG8 Ability to apply creation techniques and processes and technical or human resources necessary for the comprehensive production design of an audiovisual work
- CG9 Ability to create and direct the comprehensive staging of audiovisual productions
- CG10 Capacity and ability to manage radio production techniques and processes and other sound products.
- CG11 Ability to search, select and systematize any type of audiovisual document in a database
- CG12 Ability to write fluently, texts, rundowns or scripts
- CG13 Ability to carry out the technical ordering of sound and visual materials
- CG14 Ability to apply creation and dissemination techniques and processes in the field of graphic design
- CG15 Ability to apply processes and techniques involved in the organization and management of technical resources in any of the existing sound and visual media.
- CG16 Ability to recreate the sound environment of an audiovisual production
- CG17 Ability to identify the processes and techniques involved in the direction and management of audiovisual companies
- CG18 Capacity and use of techniques and processes in the organization of photographic production
- CG19 Ability to apply production techniques and processes in the organization of cultural events
- CG20 Ability to develop measurements related to the amount of light and color quality
- CG21 Ability to develop measurements related to the quantities and qualities of sound
- CG22 Ability to apply principles and functions of visual identity for the creation of a standards manual for the corporate visual identity of a given company.
- CG23 Ability to record sound signals
- CG24 Ability to know a foreign language with special emphasis on the professional vocabulary necessary for effective communication
- CG25 Integrate into work teams and communicate with experts in an international context
- CG26 Communicate in public with rigor in the use of language and clarity in the exposition of ideas
SPECIFIC COMPETENCES
- CE1 Ability to join and adapt to a professional audiovisual team
- CE2 Ability to critically perceive the new visual and auditory landscape offered by the communicative universe that surrounds us
- CE3 Ability to adequately present the results of the investigation
- CE4 Knowledge of theories, methods and problems of audiovisual communication and its languages
- CE5 Ability to assume leadership in projects that require human resources and of any other nature
- CE6 Ability to define research topics or innovative personal creation
- CE7 Ability for the proper use of technological tools in the different phases of the audiovisual process
- CE8 Capacity for teamwork and communication of one's own ideas
- CE9 Creativity
- CE10 Ability to adapt to changes
- CE11 Systematic practice of self-assessment, critique of results
- CE12 Order and method
- CE13 Solidarity awareness
- CE14 Decision making
- CE15 Ability to understand and use vocabulary, morphosyntactic structures, speech features and communicative functions of languages other than Spanish
- CE16 Know the conceptual foundations and the factors that condition audiovisual practices in democratic societies
- CE17 Identify the elements, structures and processes of communication through media institutions.
Minimum stay requirements
- 1. The permanence of the students in the Degree studies will be of a maximum of eight years for full-time students. Part-time students may request an extension of up to two more years from the Rector.
- 2. In Bachelor's degrees lasting more than 240 credits (4 years), the maximum of the previous section will be increased by one more year for every 60 ECTS credits that are added to the 240 ECTS.
- 3. Students must pass a minimum of two subjects in the first year. Students studying part-time must pass at least one subject in their first academic year.
- 4. Students who are studying any official Bachelor's degree at the Rey Juan Carlos University may make a maximum of four registrations to pass each of the subjects of the study plan, without counting previous cancellations of the same.
For more information see: Permanence regulations
Access and registration
Log in
Access to the official teachings of Degree will require to be in possession of the Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) and to pass the test referred to in article 42 of the Organic Law 6/2001, of Universities, modified by Law 4/ 2007, of April 12, without prejudice to the other access mechanisms provided for by current regulations.
The number of places offered for new admission are:
Madrid Campus (Vicalvaro): | 60 places (including transfer admission places) |
Fuenlabrada Campus: | 120 places (including transfer admission places) |
Double Degrees
Fuenlabrada Campus: | Audiovisual Communication-Business Administration and Management | 60 places (including transfer admission places) |
Journalism-Audiovisual Communication | 60 places (including transfer admission places) | |
Madrid Campus (Vicalvaro): | Journalism-Audiovisual Communication | 60 places (including transfer admission places) |
Matriculation year
The enrollment process at the Rey Juan Carlos University is done through the Internet. You can carry out the procedures on the computers installed on campus or through any computer with network access. You can check the deadlines at registration , as well as the different requirements and necessary documents.
Validation with FP qualifications
External Internships
The External Practices subject is a curricular subject whose main objective is to promote a comprehensive training of the student through the practical application of the knowledge acquired during the Degree, which facilitates direct contact with the professional activity and the opportunity to join the professional world with a minimum of experience. All practices are designed so that the students who participate in them acquire professional experience in real situations and conditions, applying the knowledge, skills and attitudes that are acquired in the training processes throughout the degree. The internships represent a decisive opportunity for the personal development and professional future of the students.
Internships are activities carried out by the student in companies, institutions and organizations; that is, in centers outside the university premises, which aim to enrich and complement your university education, while providing you with a deeper knowledge about the skills you will need once you have graduated.
The External Practices subject will consist of two phases:
- Completion of the internship period that offers professional experience related to any of the graduate profiles that are expressed in the Verification Report of the degree.
- Elaboration of the memory
Documentation:
For more information: External Internship Unit
Social Security contributions for interns starting January 1, 2024
Academic Recognition of Credits
Regulations for academic recognition of credits in undergraduate studies
Mobility programs
ERASMUS
The Erasmus program makes it easy for URJC students -both undergraduate and postgraduate- to study one or several semesters at one of the European universities with which the URJC has agreements.
These exchanges traditionally have an economic endowment thanks to the Erasmus Scholarships provided by the EU and the Spanish Ministry of Education.
WORLD
The Munde program manages mobility with universities from countries not included in the Erasmus Program.
The possibility of obtaining a scholarship or economic endowment and its amount depends, in each case, on the agreements with the universities, countries or entities that sign it.
For more information:
SICK
SICUE is a national mobility program for GRADOS university students that allows them to carry out part of their studies at another Spanish university with guarantees of academic recognition, use and adaptation to their curricular profile.
Student support programs
Orientation to future students. The University offers various orientation programs for future students: we carry out visits to high schools and secondary schools, we organize guided visits to the Campuses, we are present in the Classroom and, at the beginning of each course, we carry out welcome days to guide students new students.
academic tutorials. Each teacher carries out, within their teaching planning, academic tutorials on their subject.
Coordinator of the degree. It works to promote coherence and balance between the subjects and the workloads of the students.
mentoring program. The URJC has this program, peer tutoring, in which the students of the last years act as mentors with the first year students.
Students with disabilities. The Support Office for Persons with Disabilities offers guidance and assistance to students with special needs.
Scholarships . The Rey Juan Carlos University manages the main scholarships and annual grants, both its own and from other official bodies: Ministries, Community of Madrid, International Organizations and other entities. It also publishes and disseminates those scholarships and grants of interest to its students and graduates. Throughout the course, students receive information about them through the different communication channels established.
Job placement program. The Rey Juan Carlos University, through the External Internship Unit and the Graduates Office, organizes conferences, workshops and various actions aimed at supporting and guiding students in their job search, to improve their employability and promote job placement . The University has a Job Exchange -a platform available to companies and graduates- where institutions can carry out their selection processes.
Regulation
ACADEMIC CALENDAR
REGISTRATION
*The rates corresponding to double degrees with different degrees of experimentality will be applied as established in the new Decree 43/2022, of June 29, of the Government Council, which establishes the public prices for university studies leading to official degrees and services of an academic nature in the public universities of the Community of Madrid*
- Enrollment and permanence in URJC degree studies. Academic year 2023/24
- Enrollment and permanence in URJC degree studies. Academic year 2024-25 (effective as of June 1, 2024)
- Regulation of refund of academic fees
- Admission due to change of campus or modality, university and/or partial Spanish university studies of Degree and Double Degree of the URJC
- Public Prices
TRAINING PROCESS
- Academic exemption (Regulations for the Evaluation of Learning Outcomes - Title IX)
- External internships (in force during the 21/22 academic year)
- External internships (applicable from the 22/23 academic year)
- Academic Recognition of Credits (RAC)
- TFG Framework Regulation (Approved Governing Council May 26, 2023)
- Extraordinary End of Degree Award
EVALUATION
- Regulation on the Assessment of Learning Outcomes (in force from 1 September 2024)
- Review and claim of the evaluation (Regulations for the Evaluation of Learning Outcomes - Title VII)
- Request for review and claim of the evaluation
- Early call (Regulations on the Assessment of Learning Outcomes - Article 19)
- Early call procedure
- Compensation Court (Regulations for the Evaluation of Learning Outcomes - Title X)
Validation, adaptation of studies, recognition of credits and homologation of foreign qualifications
- Validations / Recognition degrees
- Partial validation of foreign studies
- Complementary training requirements prior to the recognition of foreign qualifications
UNIVERSITY DEGREES
VISITING STUDENTS AND FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY
TEACHING COORDINATION
COEXISTENCE REGIME
SCHOOL INSURANCE
ASSOCIATIONS
Quality guarantee
Results report
Once the follow-up has been carried out, the quantitative information on the results obtained in the follow-up of said Degree is shown, differentiated by academic year.
Report by course:
General information collection plan
Within the quality assurance system of the Rey Juan Carlos University, the following surveys are planned:
- New students
- Teacher evaluation
- Student satisfaction
- Satisfaction of the graduates
- Labor insertion
- Causes of abandonment
- Career path:
- Second year after graduation
- Third year after graduation
- Fourth year after graduation
- Degree of satisfaction:
- Faculty with the campus and university
- Teacher with degree
- of the evaluators
- Incoming student mobility program
- Outgoing Student Mobility Program
- Administration and services staff with the university
- External internships:
- Student satisfaction
- External tutor satisfaction
- Evaluator satisfaction
Survey results:
Improvement actions
The Quality Assurance System of the Rey Juan Carlos University establishes that the degree's Quality Assurance Commission will annually analyze the information derived from the degree's indicators and prepare a report that will include improvement plans if the results so indicate.
- Improvement actions 2022/2023
- Improvement actions 2021/2022
- Improvement actions 2020/2021
- Improvement actions 2019/2020
- Improvement actions 2018/2019
- Improvement actions 2017/2018
- Improvement actions 2016/2017
- Improvement actions 2015/2016
- Improvement actions 2014/2015
- Improvement actions 2013/2014
- Improvement actions 2012/2013
- Improvement actions 2011/2012
- Improvement actions 2010/2011
Renewal of accreditation
The renewal of the accreditation represents the culmination of the implementation process of the official Bachelor's and Master's degrees registered in the Register of Universities, Centers and Degrees (RUCT). The renewal of the accreditation of official bachelor's and master's degrees is organized in three phases: self-assessment report, external visit and final assessment.
In the first phase, the university describes and assesses the status of the degree with respect to the established criteria and guidelines. The result is the Self-Assessment Report (IA) that is presented. The second and third phases are carried out by a group of evaluators external to the evaluated title.