The Cross-Cutting Department of Critical Theories and Experimental Practices is the academic, epistemological, and interdisciplinary core that accompanies students throughout their artistic training at the University of the Arts.

The mission of this unit centers on the following areas: expanding students' disciplinary horizons, creating connections among the different arts, encouraging transdisciplinary dialogue, and promoting the development of both research-based and experimental projects.

Faculty members in the Transversal Department come from diverse fields of theoretical and/or practical research in the arts. This enables the following objectives to be achieved throughout students' training:

• Facilitate a smooth transition into the academic writing requirements of higher education.
• Encourage a gradual introduction to the specialized field of art through history, philosophy, and aesthetics.
• Expand artistic knowledge and tools through theoretical-practical reflection spaces (labs) for collaborative, experimental, and interdisciplinary creation within the framework of new technologies.
• Guide students toward other fields of knowledge from a transdisciplinary perspective, connecting them with cultural management and economics, the Latin American political context, local community settings, and the broader field of artistic production and dissemination.

Resources

Transversal Department Curriculum