FA2: New Bulgarian University

FINE ARTS DEPARTMENT

Fine Arts Department is a new department that came into existence in December, 2006.

The Department has united teachers who previously worked in different art departments with those who teach major art disciplines such as Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Graphic Technique, Ceramics, Perspective, Plastic Anatomy and more. The teachers’ community in the department works in the fields of Painting, Graphic Art, Sculpture, Ceramics, Graphic Design and Stage Design.

The Department has been attracting distinguished Bulgarian artists popular at both the national and international level to work as full-time teachers and lecturers, thus achieving high quality education using alternative teaching methods.

Another one of the Department’s objectives is to offer an extensive variety of programs, different from those already existing at other universities such as the National Academy of Arts, ‘Saint Cyril and Methodius’ University of Veliko Tarnovo, and ‘Chernorizetz Hrabur’ University of Varna. Following the educational practices of the best universities in Europe and America, the Department will continue to create and develop contemporary programs at NBU.

The Department has an interdisciplinary makeup as it offers basic specialized courses in Pictorial and Plastic Arts included in the Arts programs (BA’s programs such as Plastic Arts, Design and Architecture, Visual Arts with modules: Graphic Design and Animation, program Theater with module Stage Design).

The Department organizes exhibitions and performances to present the production of its lecturers and students and takes part in other joint student art projects with other departments.

The works of art created within the university are periodically exhibited inside and out of the university buildings. The exhibitions, performances and other events organized by the Department have received good press locally and centrally. 

For the academic year 2007/2008, the Department has a new Bachelor of Arts degree program in Plastic Arts, with modules in Painting and Wall Painting, Ceramics and Glass and International Stage Design and two Master’s programs – Painting and Graphic Technologies.

MOBILITY

International mobility

NBU practices student mobility – NBU students attend foreign universities and foreign students attend NBU. Programs under which student mobility can be realized are:

• Program ERASMUS
• Program COMMENSKI
• Program CIME (Francophone University Agency)
• HESP (Institute Open society)

For additional information: International relations office, building 2, room 712, telephone: +359 2 8110 672

  
Internal mobility

• Transfer from another university of higher education to NBU

For transfer from another university of higher education to NBU the following documents are required:
petition to the NBU Rector;
       - academic reference for the academic disciplines studied
       - permission for transfer by the Rector of the respective higher school from which the student comes from

Documents are submitted to building 1, floor 2, room 206.

• Transfer from one program to another within NBU

Transfer from one program to another is possible in case the student has:
       - a successfully completed first semester;
       - average grade at least Good - 4;
       - permit by the dean of the respective faculty;
       - consent of the directors of both programs

Documents are submitted to building 1, floor 2, room 206.