ABOUT THE PROGRAMME

The Dubrovnik study programme in Conservation and Restauration is based on a state-of-the-art technical, technological, expert and scientific knowledge in conservation and restauration, which is taught to students by numerous professors and experts. The programme is founded on a very much needed broad theoretical basis with focus on practical student work. Students take their regular classes in theory and do a part of their professional practice in the classrooms and workshops of the University of Dubrovnik. Also, they do a part of their professional practice in the workshops of the Croatian Conservation Institute in all parts of Croatia as well as in numerous Croatian museums, libraries, archives and private conservation and restauration workshops contracted by the University.

During their study, students have the possibility to take classes in other universities with which the University of Dubrovnik has signed Erasmus+ contracts within the Erasmus+ Programme (Portugal, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Germany, Check Republic, Greece and other).

PROGRAMME DURATION

The undergraduate university study programme in Conservation and Restauration with specialisations in Wood, Paper, Textile, Metal and Ceramics lasts three years or six semesters (180 ECTS credits).

DEGREE AWARDED

Upon the completion of this undergraduate programme, students are awarded the academic degree of a Bachelor (Baccalaureus/Baccalaurea) in Conservation and Restauration.

POSSIBILITY TO CONTINUE STUDIES

After graduating from the undergraduate programme, students have the possibility to continue their studies by attending the graduate university programme.

Compulsory courses

• History and Ethics of Heritage Conservation and Restoration
• General and Inorganic Chemistry I
• Physics
• Introduction to Materials and Technology of Wood
• Introduction to Materials and Technology of Paper
• Art History of the Antiquity
• Iconography
• Drawing I
• Foreign Language: English Language I/1 or Italian Language I/1
• Physical and Health Education I
• Methodology of Conservation and Restauration Work
• General and Inorganic Chemistry II
• Medieval Art History
• Introduction to Specialisations: Wood, Paper, Textile, Metal, Ceramics
• Introduction to Materials and Technology of Textile
• Introduction to Materials and Technology of Metal
• Introduction to Materials and Technology of Ceramics
• Drawing II
• Foreign Language: English Language I/2 or Italian Language I/2
• Physical and Health Education II

Elective courses

• Professional Practice in Florence

Compulsory courses

• Preventive Conservation I
• Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry I
• Biology and Applied Biology
• Museography
• Renaissance and Baroque Art
• Conservation and Restauration of Wood I
• Conservation and Restauration of Paper I
• Conservation and Restauration of Textile I
• Conservation and Restauration of Metal I
• Conservation and Restauration of Ceramics I
• Painting I
• Sculpture I
• Foreign Language: English Language II/1 or Italian Language in Conservation and Restauration II/1
• Preventive Conservation II
• Fundamentals of Organic Chemistry II
• History of Modern and Contemporary Art
• Conservation and Restauration of Wood II
• Conservation and Restauration of Paper II
• Conservation and Restauration of Textile II
• Conservation and Restauration of Metal II
• Conservation and Restauration of Ceramics II
• Painting II
• Sculpture II
• Foreign Language: English Language II/2 or Italian Language in Conservation and Restauration II/2

Elective courses

• Professional Practice in Florence
• Data Processing Systems I
• Data Processing Systems II
• Garden Art, Protection and Restauration
• Introduction to Visual Culture
• Graphics I
• Graphics II

Compulsory courses

• Applied Chemistry I/1
• Technical Drawing
• Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology
• Digital Image Processing Basics
• Cultural Property Law
• Cultural Heritage Theory
• Documentation Photography I
• Conservation and Restauration of Wood III
• Conservation and Restauration of Paper III
• Conservation and Restauration of Textile III
• Conservation and Restauration of Metal III
• Conservation and Restauration of Ceramics III
• English Language III/1 and Italian Language in Conservation and Restauration III/1
• Applied Chemistry I/2
• Ethnographic Artefacts
• Cultural Economics
• Documentation Photography II
• Conservation and Restauration of Wood IV
• Conservation and Restauration of Paper IV
• Conservation and Restauration of Textile IV
• Conservation and Restauration of Metal IV
• Conservation and Restauration of Ceramics IV
• English Language III/2 and Italian Language in Conservation and Restauration III/2
• Final Exam

Elective courses

• Database Making
• Technology of Varnishes and Glues
• Material Technology (Wood)
• Cleaning Technology
• Professional Practice in Florence and in Conservation and Restauration Workshop

WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT

This unique study programme in Conservation and Restauration in Croatia has been fully aligned with the Bologna Process. This programme ensures a daily cooperation between teachers and students as well as student mobility, whereby students are enabled to enrol courses of a similar profile and workload (expressed in ECTS credits) compatible to the Dubrovnik study programme at any university in the European Union member states.

OUR FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

• Two amphitheatres
• 17 classrooms
• Five computer laboratories
• Distance learning classroom
• Wood workshop
• Paper workshop
• Textile workshop
• Metal workshop
• Ceramics workshop
• Atelier
• Photo laboratory
• Chemistry laboratory

CONTACT

www.unidu.hr

Email: upisi@unidu.hr

Phone: +385 20 446 028