10 May 2017

La Salle-URL form to the technologists of the future

The university has two new three-year degrees in software and digital applications and interactive.

The university has two new three-year degrees in software and digital applications and interactive. These profiles with a high demand in the market for its multidisciplinary professional. La Salle-URL launches its first two degrees of three years specialized in technology area:

  • Degree in Technical Applications and Digital Interactive
  • Degree in Technical Application Software

With these qualifications you will train technical professionals that are currently very popular in the professional market and is expected to remain a growth trend in the coming years. A technologist can be defined as ability to work a specialist in the field of technology applied their knowledge to solve problems, develop machines or systems that are useful in everyday life. These new formations of La Salle-URL respond to this new profile.

Forecasts of the European Union already point in this direction until 2020 and expected to create 900,000 new jobs, especially related to technology. In Spain, the 2020 shortage of 1.9 million highly skilled professionals across Europe and this demand will grow at an annual rate of 10%.

These degrees are very practical multidisciplinary professionals who can solve problems, which may work immediately and with a high technical capabilities. This methodology is open and the student participates more actively in class and work together solving actual cases, in many cases of companies (Learning by Challenge).

Both new grades are open to high school students and vocational training, both technological and artistic and social. Thus there is also a technical job opportunities for students who want to opt for this type of highly specialized and practical training.

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INTEREST FOR THE CREATION:

The Degree in Digital Applications and Interactive Techniques aims to provide knowledge relating to the design content, creativity and interactive communication, as well as user experience and interactive peripherals. The profile is a media specialist that uses hardware and software tools that already exist to create other problems that provide solutions to the current market. Thus, the profile of these young students is interested to develop interactive projects that will work in areas such as design interfaces and interactive installations, multimedia user experience or writer; on the side of art, object creator 2D / 3D visual effects and sound, illuminating or cameraman; programming, can be devoted to programming Web, mobile devices, or audiovisual applications; and the level of processing, interactive technical installations, technical mapping on mobile devices and electric vehicles.

In this area, La Salle-URL celebrates this year the 20th anniversary of the creation of the Degree in Multimedia, which was the first university degree in Multimedia Engineering Europe -and a few years after the first official degree in Spain this àmbit- when he entered fully into the world of digital entertainment and video game programming. The new level is now set in motion continues in the evolution of multimedia studies to train professionals prepared to meet the current market needs, especially where there is a local demand for very high profile.

SPECIALIST SOFTWARE VERY PRACTICAL:

The Degree in Technical Application Software focuses on methodological issues, techniques and technology of computers from a very practical point of view, with output profiles related to mobile application development, creation of websites, system administration, technical support and digital marketing. It offers the opportunity to develop integrated and based on real cases and present a very practical approach to professional and have the ability to immediately apply this knowledge in the workplace.