كلية السياحة والفنادق

Vision

Faculty of Fine Arts at Alexandria University applies quality systems in order to provide a graduate reaches to excellence in the areas of research and artistic and plastic creativity, and it shall contribute effectively in community service and environment development to obtain accreditation.

Mission

• Contribute to the upgrading of scientific and educational level of society through comprehensive educational programs that prepare graduates to join labor market

• Supply the society with creative specialists in various fields of Fine Arts to contribute to the dissemination of arts, culture and awareness in the community and raising public sense.

• The faculty seeks to establish dynamic partnership with community institutions and centers of art and culture locally and globally to make an effective contribution to the development of thought and the development of a civilized society.

• Provide architect and urban planner capable of linking recent technology to national heritage and able to assert the cultural identity in residential environment and the contemporary city.

 Objectives

•  Prepare creative artist who has renewable vision and creative awareness pulsating with current facts.

•  Prepare innovative designer in the field of environmental design and visual communication in various fields (Urban Planning Civil, environmental architecture, architectural heritage and problems of industrial development in the environment .....Etc.) so that he can align the developed needs of man and society in the fields of economy, trade, environment and culture, and it is achieved through by providing knowledge and liberating imagination and the acquisition of necessary technical and performance skills.

• Prepare specialists in the fields of architecture, arts that development programs require.
• Raise the level of professional and scientific workers in the fields of architecture and arts.
•  Conduct research and studies in various areas of specialization in the faculty.
• Exchange of experiences and information with other Egyptian, Arab and international educational and cultural institutions.
•  Provide technical advice in various areas of specialization and contribute to the development and modernization of thought and practices in the areas of faculty work to serve environment and community.
 - ​​​In order to achieve that, the faculty concerns about the resurgence of great traditions of Ancient, Coptic and Islamic Egyptian heritage in architecture and arts. The faculty also deliberates other cultures contributing in the human heritage and to do that it requires continued programs to achieve coherence between the academic activity of the faculty and programs of other local and international universities. The mainstay of progress in this field depends on participation and opening up to discovery and experimentation.

Fifty years since the establishing Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University. The faculty has been supplying the society with faculty artists and architectures who enriched the culture and still the pioneers play a vital role in the Egyptian, Arab and international art movement.

This year 2007, the faculty celebrates its golden jubilee for its foundation. The celebration included:

First Art & Architecture Exhibitions:

• Exhibition of graduation projects for the year 2005-2006, at Hussin Sobhy Museum.

• Exhibition of faculty new buildings in El Maamora, in Faculty Museum in the Main Hall-Mazlom.

• Exhibition of 2000’s generation, at Faculty Museum in the Main Hall-Mazlom.

• Exhibition of 90’s generation, at Faculty Museum in the Main Hall-Mazlom.

• Exhibition of 80’s generation, at Faculty Museum in the Main Hall-Mazlom.

• Exhibition of 70’s generation, at Faculty Museum in the Main Hall-Mazlom.

• Exhibition of 60’s generation, at Faculty Museum in the Main Hall-Mazlom.

• Exhibition of art workshops (photography-printed designs-sculpture-Decor-architecture), in Hall of Creation center- Al Horria Road.

• Exhibition of architecture workshops in participation with Darmstadt University-Germany, in Hall of Creation center- Al Horria Road.

Second: Workshops

• Art workshops held in City Landscape Center in Moharram Bek.

•  Architecture joint workshops between Architecture Department of the faculty and Architecture Department in Darmstadt University-Germany on environment architecture. The workshops were held in Cairo, Alexandria and Siwa and German Institute of Gutta in Alexandria participated.

Third: Memorial Book

It is a memorial book on faculty celebration of the golden jubilee

Fourth: Documentary film of the jubilee

It is a documentary on faculty role and pioneers in art and architecture movement and its effect on Alexandria during this period.

Fifth: Scientific Conference 

It was announced for the Third Scientific Conference as an activity of the golden jubilee celebration. The conference date was defined on 30th of April 2007. The Minister of Education, Dr. Yousry El Gamal and a group of government officials, teaching staff and students had attended the conference

Duration of study for bachelor degree ...Five academic years

The study begins with special preparatory year in the following departments: Architecture, Decoration and General Arts. The preparatory year qualifies students for admission to the departments (Printed Designs - Photography - Sculpture). The specialization will be according to the curriculum tables.
The study is based on the two semesters system where exams are held at the end of each semester for completed courses while exams of continuing courses are held at the end of the second semester.

 The Faculty Board is authorized to determine the scientific content while the mentioned departments are authorized to teach the courses and conduct researches in the scientific disciplines and materials.

Characterization of experiences related to Diploma degree in a discipline of Arts 

• Deepen the specialized design experience in the field of specialization.
• Giving the students all up to date skills in the areas of implementation.
• Development of overall cognitive experiences of students through a general diploma.
• Acquiring students higher capacities in the areas of specialization related to their work in the community.
• Development of students’ to scientific competency.
• Specialized rehabilitation for graduates at intervals to keep pace with recent developments in the specialization.
• Qualifying graduates for Master’s level in some or all disciplines.

Characterization of experiences related to Master’s degree in a discipline of Arts.

·        Rehabilitation of student to acquire experience related to research methodology in specialization discipline in Arts

·        Upgrading students' ability to use their minds to discover and activate research assumptions in disciplines.

·        Acquiring the student proficiency skills on data verification, referential attribution, inference of related ideas and comparisons, results consolidation and precision of research methodology.

·        Training on ideas arrangement, presentation and formulation and how to use terminology to reflect the depth of specialization experience.

·        Deepen students' ability of specialized engrossment in order to discover new research issues which can improve the discipline and serve education process.

·        Deep understanding of parallel specialized achievement on the local and international level till achieving comprehensiveness.   

·        Rehabilitation for PhD degree in the specialized discipline of arts

 Characterization of experiences related to PhD degree in a discipline of Arts.

• Upgrading the capabilities of students to have all methodology requirements of research in the field of arts.
• Increasing the activating processes of mental, creative and executive capacities of students in order to accomplish innovative research that should develop the specialization.
• Enable students to have intellectual and creative character that has its independent methodology in the specialization.
• Upgrading personal capabilities of students to achieve integration between continuous systematic scientific rehabilitation and developed achievement of specialization objectives.
• Enable students to achieve systematic excellence research that should insure the international competitiveness of their scientific degrees and their specialized researches.​​