EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
Educational activities include curricular subjects, additional training activities, individual and group study activities.

Curricular subjects are divided into basic learning activities, subject specific learning activities, integrative learning activities and additional learning activities, some mandatory and some elective, according to ministerial regulations, and consist in theoretical-critical, design and technical subjects.

NABA teaching methods include frontal lessons, lab sessions and exercises, seminars, workshops and conferences and are organised in modules of various lengths (one-year, one-semester or intensive modules).

Additional activities include English language and basic IT, realisation of individual artistic production and research projects, participation in cross-disciplinary activities, international exchange programs and internships and further activities aimed at providing students with the necessary skills to enter the job market.

ACADEMIC CREDITS
One academic credit (credito formativo accademico - CFA) corresponds to an average of 25 hours' work time.
The credits envisaged for each subject can only be obtained upon passing the relevant examination for that specific subject.
The credits envisaged for the other educational activities can only be awarded through specific official acknowledgment procedures.

The average workload and learning time for a student that is following a full-time academic curriculum has been conventionally established as 60 academic credits (CFA) per year corresponding to a total workload of 1500 hours of study.

INTERNSHIP AND PORTFOLIO
Internships are part of the educational activities and are regulated by the provisions of Law nr. 196/1997 and by specific academic regulations. As an alternative to a period of internship, students can carry out research or
production activities under the supervision of a professor at the Academy in collaboration with public bodies and businesses. The development of an artistic and professional portfolio that is then presented and evaluated
during the final graduation exam represents an integral part of a student's educational path as well.

STUDY PLAN
By the end of the first year (the final deadline will be communicated each year) students have to submit a draft study plan in which they choose among the various elective courses and among the additional educational activities envisaged in the Program Curriculum. While drafting the study plan, students will have to respect the subject sequence indicated in the Program Curriculum. Students' study plans will be automatically approved in case they are consistent with the Curriculum. Otherwise they will be subject to the Program Director's approval. In the following academic years, students will have to submit again the study plan that can be identical to the one that had already been approved or contain some variations and indicate the deadlines for filling up any educational debt that students might have accumulated in the previous year due to failing some of the exams envisaged by the Program Curriculum. The possibility to modify the study plan and introduce subjects that are activated on alternate years or open to a limited number of students is subject to NABA programming needs. A student's admission to the final examination for the
attainment of the degree is dependent on the correspondence between the last approved study plan and the number of credits that have been effectively awarded to that student.