Objectives

The Department sets itself the task of providing training in the various tasks of the architect, allowing students to follow a particular direction according to their abilities and their cultural affinities. The aim of this training is based on the assumption that students should be given the best chance of finding their right place in professional circles.

The program of studies guarantees a high level of both theoretical and practical training. Needless to say it includes all the necessary knowledge but it also comprises a critical analysis of methods and procedures. Thus, it aims at training professionals while rejecting the idea of a purely professional education.

The instruction given fosters an education thanks to which the student may develop his own identity as an architect and do so according to his relationship with the domain of construction and its various contexts. The objectives will be attained through a procedure that satisfies the following criteria:

• The integration of the knowledge and experience gained during theoretical instruction into the practice of architecture and vice versa.
• Deeper consideration by the student about his social, cultural, economic and technical relationship with his natural physical environment, and also about the influence of his professional practice in relation to his natural, human, physical and technical surroundings.
• The perfecting of the means of expression indispensable for the architect for the presentation and explanation of his proposals.
• The development of the contextual, theoretical and methodological aspects of the principle fields of intervention and specialization of the architect.

Job opportunities

• Architect: architect in independent practice, project manager, consultant, expert employed in design offices and major concerns, designer, coordinator.
• Civil service and advisor to official authorities.
• Studies for town planning and infrastructure.
• Conservation of countryside and rural heritage.
• Teaching and research.

Program Structure

The educational program grants a large role to the initiative of the student. It is structured into three major groups defined as follows:

• Obligatory courses (OB): are the basic educational courses (160 credits).
  The thematic workshops are obligatory courses offering alternatives.
• Optional Courses (OPT): students must choose from a list suggested by the department a number of courses which they will consider as necessary and useful for their own major and orientation and this with the assistance of their adviser (26 credits).
• Free courses (LB): students are able to choose a course not suggested in the department list with the help of their adviser provided that this course is proposed in one of the USEK faculties or institutes (6 credits).

Objectives

Interior Design covers three main fields of application:

• Design and fitting of interior spaces: housing, administration, industry, trade, hotels, leisure…
• Design of products: furniture, luminary, object, textile, urban furniture…
• Communication: museography, exhibition scenography, television scene decoration, company image …

The teaching focuses on the application of the project and is based on a group of courses aimed at developing an artistic, historical, technical and legal culture: history of art, architecture and design, plastic research, visual communication, law and legislation of buildings… In addition to the fundamental training of drawing in its various forms. The student is also initiated into the tools of computer software design (CAO, DAO) and the production of digital images.

Teaching is administered in French and encourages competence in the English language necessary for adapting to international needs.
The duration of studies is 5 years at the end of which a Diploma of Higher Studies (DES) in Interior Design is granted.

Job opportunities

• Interior designer in independent practice or employed in company design offices, consultant or expert.
• Designer for furniture and various appliances.
• Scenery designer for theater and television.
• Teaching and research.

Program Structure

The education program includes a minimum of 160 credits distributed as follows:

• 114 obligatory credits and 46 free and optional credits.
• 52 credits of the 114 obligatory credits are reserved for the interior architecture and design workshops. The optional credits are categorized under five educational sections. A minimum number of credits is required per group.

The Department of Graphic Design and Advertisement offers a general education which provides the student with career prospects in the various fields of visual and media communication.

Objectives

The objectives are to provide students with the necessary knowledge for success in their professional life. They will be educated in order:

• To combine free creativity with rigor in the realization of a project.
• To deal with professional problems by developing the abilities of analysis, thinking, objectivity and decision-making.

In sum, graduate students will be able in the long term to create the image of an adequate product or service as well as conduct effective advertising campaigns.

Job opportunities

• Advertising agency and advertising creation.
• Visual communication.
• Graphic art for printing and the press.
• Publishing
• Teaching and research.

Program Structure

The program consists of 160 credits distributed over a ten-semester period at the end of which a Diploma of Higher Studies in Graphic Design and Advertisement is granted.

The program structure comprises 4 semesters of core courses and 6 semesters of major courses. The program includes:

• A minimum of 120 credits of obligatory courses essential for a fundamental education.
• A set of 24 credits of optional courses chosen by the students in accordance with the envisioned major.
• A set of 16 credits of free elective courses will be selected including 4 credits out of faculty.

Course outline

• Semesters 1 and 2:
  These two semesters form a period of initiation to the technical and artistic courses considered as indispensable tools for the training of the future graphic designer or advertising professional. They are a period of discovery of the worlds of line, color and composition, as well as an introduction to viewing and to reflection.
• Semesters 3 and 4:
  These two semesters are for a deeper study of the basics. This training is a direct preparation for the years to follow, during which the student must choose between the graphic arts and advertising. It is also a first approach to illustration and visual identity. The student will also learn some basic drawing.
• Semesters 5 and 6:
  These two semesters form a period of professional training channeling studies towards specialization in either the graphic arts or in advertising. The student learns to manage a procedure of communication more and more in line with the realities of professional exercise.
• Semesters 7 and 8:
  These two semesters form a period of synthesis during which the student must use the technical, plastic and creative skills acquired during the three previous years in order to consolidate his conceptual aptitudes and to show his abilities in a global and coherent manner.
• Semesters 9 and 10:
  These two semesters are a period of attainment during which the student develops his End-of-Studies Project. In this project technical and conceptual qualities should be used in a professional manner.

Objectives

The Department of Visual and Scenic Arts offers a complete and open education having as its aim the development of artistic practice and the professional and social integration of the students into the new globalized world where frontiers are disappearing and the real becomes virtual. This new challenge engenders a new view of teaching in order that the future generations may preserve their identity and even diversity while being open to this new world.

An equilibrium must therefore be maintained between the advantages of a rigorous teaching and an opening onto an environment where changes arrive following an exponentially increasing rhythm.

The theoretical reflection conducted by the team of instructors, the rigor of the apprenticeships in both the traditional and new techniques, the interventions of the specialized technicians, the visits of high-ranking theoreticians and of artists engaged in contemporary creation, are all advantages benefiting the students during their university career.

Branches

• Audiovisual - Multimedia
• Audiovisual - Video Art
• Cinema
• Photography
• Television
• Theater

Job Opportunities

Bachelor's Degree:

• Theater
• Cinema
• Television
• Video Art
• Multimedia
• Photography

Master's Degree:

• Theater
• Cinema
• Television
• Video Art
• Multimedia

Diplomas granted

BA in Visual and Performing Arts
In one of the Visual and Performing Arts options:
Multimedia, Video-Art, Cinema and Television, Photography, Theater

Minimum duration: 3 years
Maximum duration: 5 years

Number of credits: 99 as a minimum of which:

• 48 credits from among the obligatory courses of level 100 and 200
• 27 credits from among the obligatory courses of level 300
• 18 credits from among the optional courses suggested by the Department
• 6 credits chosen freely

MA in Visual and Performing Arts (BFA)
In one of the Visual and Performing Arts options:
Multimedia, Video-Art, Cinema and Television, Photography, Theater

Minimum duration: 1 year after the BA
Maximum duration: 2 years after the BA

Number of credits: at least 27 which include:

• 15 credits from among the obligatory courses of level 400
• 6 credits from among the optional courses suggested by the Department
• 6 credits for a project /MA thesis

In view of the richness of the Syro-Antiochean heritage, its cultural diversity and the need to carry out serious studies in the domain of its art in order to restore it, to make it better known and to revive it in our Antiochean Churches, the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik saw it as its duty to open a Department of Sacred Art (DAS) cooperating with the different Faculties and Institutes of the University, particularly with the Pontifical Institute of Theology, the Institute of History, History of Art and Archaeology, the Institute of Liturgy and the University Museum, while also maintaining contact with similar institutes in local and foreign universities.

The Department of Sacred Art is however autonomous but ready with its laboratories and studios to contribute to safeguarding the national heritage. It awards university diplomas in research and technique. It also serves as a center of research and art documentation in everything concerning the Church of Antioch and welcomes all those who wish to pursue further research in this field.

Studios and laboratories

The creative artists and technicians working with the Department of Sacred Art serve both the students and the Church by employing their technical and artistic skills and by putting at their disposition the following studios and laboratories:

• The Iconographic Studio
• The Painting Studio
• The Restoration Studio
• The Stained-Glass Studio
• The Mosaic Studio
• The Ceramics Studio
• The Studio of Design and Liturgical Style
• The Engraving Studio

Job opportunities

• Iconography-painter of sacred art.
• Mosaic artist, art ceramist, art glassmaker.
• Art engraver: lino, xylo, serigraphy.
• Restorer of paintings and icons.
• Designer: ornaments and liturgical furniture.
• Criticism, research and teaching.

Program Structure

BA in Sacred Art

minimum of 3 obligatory years, 99 credits

MA in Sacred Art
Specialization Option: Iconography - Mosaics - Restoration -Stained Glass - Ceramic Design and Liturgical Styling- Engraving

• BA +1 year (4 years minimum)
• BA + 33 obligatory and optional credits, with a thesis defense (a total of 132 credits minimum)

Diplome d’Etudes Approfondies in Sacred Art (Higher Diploma)

• MA +1 year (4 years minimum)
• To fulfill the requirements of the Doctoral School
• 21 obligatory and optional credits, including a thesis defense.

PhD in Sacred Art

• DEA + 3 years minimum
• To fulfill the requirements of the Doctoral School
• Thesis and defense