The First Year Contemporary Drawing Program introduces students to the concept that drawing underpins all art practices. This understanding is achieved by exploring divergent approaches to drawing practices. Drawing is presented as an art practice in its own right, as well as support for the Studio-specific programs. Students will rotate through two of the four blocks: Life Drawing, Computer Drawing, Incidental Drawing and Experimental Drawing.

The First Year Contemporary Drawing Program introduces students to the concept that drawing underpins all art practices. This understanding is achieved by exploring divergent approaches to drawing practices. Drawing is presented as an art practice in its own right, as well as support for the Studio-specific programs. Students will rotate through two of the four blocks that they did not complete as part of Contemporary Drawing A: Life Drawing, Computer Drawing, Incidental Drawing and Experimental Drawing.

The studio program is a project-based, studio-specific program. The studio program is structured to expose students to a diversity of approaches in utilising their chosen studio and its unique qualities.
The aims of the studio program are: to cultivate a contemporary dialogue of issues informing practice; to promote individual exploration within and between media; and to assist and equip students with the necessary skills for working as professional artists. Students will gain basic understanding of their chosen studio, its staffing, organisation and possible learning paths and directions for their practice and an understanding of how researching ideas can inform their own developing practice.
Students will be required to purchase some materials to complete projects.
Appropriate footwear and clothing will be required at all times.

Foundation Studio B continues to develop skills gained in Foundation Studio A; by the end of the year students will have developed some understanding of studio-based art practice by working in their chosen studio each week. Studio classes will mostly be structured as self-directed learning exercises where students will engage with their peers and develop useful links with other key members of SCA and the wider visual arts community. Students will be given a list of mandatory health and safety equipment that will be required for access to specific studio areas and workshops. Students will also be required to purchase some materials to complete projects. Appropriate footwear and clothing will be required at all times.

This program is an idea-based, project-style, non-studio-specific program consisting of two 6-week blocks which students rotate through during the semester. Students are encouraged to identify and develop an interdisciplinary practice. The timetable structure enables students to explore a range of approaches between disciplines, facilities and staff, thus providing a more inclusive educational experience. Classes are held in cross-studio groups in a central space, and each student works around broad themes. This program challenges students to consider the development of ideas and how processes and materials are chosen and utilised in relation to those ideas. By the end of the year students will have developed some generic technical skills and will be able to clearly identify the facilities and equipment, and their purposes, as well as the health and safety requirements that are essential to SCA and current art practice.

This program is an idea-based, project-style, non-studio-specific program consisting of one 6-week block. Students are encouraged to identify and develop an interdisciplinary practice. The timetable structure enables students to explore a range of approaches between disciplines, facilities and staff, thus providing a more inclusive educational experience. Classes are held in cross-studio groups in a central space, and each student works around broad themes. This program challenges students to consider the development of ideas and how processes and materials are chosen and utilised in relation to those ideas. By the end of the year students will have developed some generic technical skills and will be able to clearly identify the facilities and equipment, and their purposes, as well as the health and safety requirements that are essential to SCA and current art practice.

Contemporary Art: Themes and Theories
This unit of study is designed to enthuse students about contemporary art. We want to show you the exciting work that artists and theorists produce and the breadth and scope of contemporary art on an international scale. While the term 'contemporary' can be interpreted in a variety of ways, this unit encompasses art and idea most pertinent to the last thirty years. This unit addresses ideas and practices that we consider fundamental knowledge for visual arts practitioners: the concept of the 'everyday', the relevance of disciplines such as philosophy to art criticism, the importance of identity in the practices of artists, the central place of the Body and theories of perception to the work that artists produce, and the many theoretical ideas that emanate from a close study of objects.

The Avantgarde
This unit is designed to inform students about Twentieth Century modernism and avantgarde culture, and to make connections with Nineteenth Century art and culture. Lectures and tutorials address ideas and practices that are fundamental knowledge for visual arts practitioners: the concepts of modern art and the modern artist; the modern world and the impact of the city, travel, and colonization on artistic production; the influence of the Romantic Movement; the impact of modern technologies on art; the politics of vision; the gendering of aesthetics.

This Unit of Study investigates the development of contemporary practices in the visual arts. It aims to explore historical contexts, the meaning of artworks and conceptual developments in studio practice.Students will be encouraged to investigate historical contexts and models of practice relating to specific practitioners. Learning activities may include gallery visits, written projects and group work.This unit is based in your studio area.

This Unit of Study develops on themes and theories introduced in Studio Theory A. The unit aims to investigate the development of contemporary practices in the visual arts. You will explore historical contexts, the meaning of artworks and conceptual developments in studio practice. Students will be encouraged to investigate historical contexts and models of practice relating to specific practitioners. Learning activities may include gallery visits, written projects and group work. This unit is based in your studio area.

This unit is an introduction to ceramics that may be combined with other approved units of study. The unit introduces students to the concepts and practices, skills and basic technology that comprise contemporary ceramics. Students learn and develop various hand-building skills, identify areas of interest, and develop a basic understanding of ceramic technology. Through a series of open-ended studio projects, students engage with and explore personal concepts and interests. Individual and group sessions help them identify and develop conceptual and critical skills. Through a series of regular classes, students become familiar with various properties of clays, learn to set and fire electric kilns, and become familiar with the structure of glazes and glaze testing procedures.
Students maintain a drawing/ studio journal, that documents the development of concepts and ideas, as well as a ceramic technology journal.

This unit may be combined with other approved units of study. The unit continues to expand and develop ceramic studio skills, through studio-based projects, as well as to provide the opportunity for students to identify an area of interest and develop that as a major project. This unit further develops skills in hand-building and wheel-throwing, that were introduced in Semester One, as well as providing an introduction to casting. Students develop design skills through the planning of their projects. Students continue to develop their understanding of technology (clays and glazes), learn to make their own casting slips, learn about high temperature glazes and learn to fire gas kilns. They identify an individual glaze project and develop it over the period of the semester. Through individual and group discussions, students explore and learn to articulate individual concepts and interests. Drawing is seen as integral to studio practice, and it is expected that students maintain a drawing/ studio journal.

The unit provides a studio-based approach to glass-working. Throughout this semester students will follow a project-based curriculum that encourages the development of critical and practical skills. Technical introductions are supported with thematic approaches encouraging exploration within studio glass, object making and design. A variety of glass-working activities are available for students to develop their skills, including: glass-blowing, cold-working, polishing and cutting, lathe-working, engraving, kiln-working, casting and mould-making, flame-working and glass-painting and sand-blasting.

Students will begin to elect areas of study from approaches and skills acquired in Semester 1. This self-directed approach is combined with ongoing set projects that further develop critical and technical skills. In consultation with academic staff, students will begin to direct a path of exploration relevant to their interest and appropriate level of practical skill. Students may decide to work exclusively within the medium of glass or in conjunction with other media and processes as required. A variety of glass-working activities are available for students to develop their skills, including: glass-blowing, cold-working, polishing and cutting, lathe-working, engraving, kiln-working, casting and mould-making, flame-working and glass-painting and sand-blasting.

A studio-based, learning experience of jewellery and object-design practice. Students are encouraged to explore a range of approaches to the discipline. Conceptual and practical investigations challenge orthodox attitudes toward art, craft and design. Set projects, technical workshops and critical discussion assist students to identify, develop, research and resolve concepts as they relate to the design and making of jewellery and objects.

Students are offered a studio-based experience in the practice of jewellery and object design. Students are encouraged to explore a range of approaches to the discipline. Conceptual and practical investigations challenge orthodox attitudes toward art, craft and design. Set projects, technical workshops and critical discussion assist students to identify, develop, research and resolve concepts as they relate to the design and making of jewellery and objects.

The aims and objectives are achieved in the program by the use of a tutorial system. A different academic advisor is assigned to each group of combined Second- and Third-Year students. This grouping fulfils the educational function of peer support and learning, allowing the increasing maturity of the students to be a demonstrable outcome. The academic advisor is responsible for the progress of those students. To provide access to different intellectual points of view the four groups are remixed and rotated over four semesters. The other important aspect of the unit is the one-to-one studio tutorial, where the particular concerns and needs of the student are discussed, tailoring both technical information and theoretical knowledge in relation to the student's evolving work.

The aims and objectives are achieved in the program by the use of a tutorial system. A different academic advisor is assigned to each group of combined Second- and Third-Year students. This grouping fulfils the educational function of peer support and learning, allowing the increasing maturity of the students to be a demonstrable outcome. The academic advisor is responsible for the progress of those students. To provide access to different intellectual points of view the four groups are remixed and rotated over four semesters. The other important aspect of the unit is the one-to-one studio tutorial, where the particular concerns and needs of the student are discussed, tailoring both technical information and theoretical knowledge in relation to the student's evolving work.

In the first semester students begin to identify their own creative interests and to locate these within an appropriate contemporary art or design context. This process is supported by a program of group and individual tutorials and an exhibition project that extends into second semester. Students are also required to choose from a range of optional courses that cover the core studio areas of drawing, photography/collage, illustration, etching, and screen printing.

Building on their first semester's work, students continue the process of defining their own art or design practice by developing work for a group exhibition taking place mid-semester. This exhibition project serves as the focal point both for the development of their own creative thinking and for the acquisition of practical skills relevant to the public presentation of their work. The studio projects in semester two introduce students to publication design; a series of short courses covering vocational skills and experimental approaches to digital and paper publications.

Study in Sculpture Performance and Installation is a unified, studio-based activity addressing the concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary sculpture. This includes traditional sculptural processes as well as incorporating new media and digital technologies that are currently reshaping contemporary practice. Each student, in consultation with academic staff, develops an outline of their proposed study program at the commencement of the semester and maintains a studio diary. Students present work regularly for review and are encouraged to further develop and refine their individual studio practice. This process is supported by small-group projects, lectures, group and individual tutorials and critiques.

Study in Sculpture Performance and Installation is a unified, studio-based activity addressing the concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary sculpture. This includes traditional sculptural processes as well as incorporating new media and digital technologies that are currently reshaping contemporary practice. Each student, in consultation with academic staff, develops an outline of their proposed study program at the commencement of the semester and maintains a studio diary. Students present work regularly for review and are encouraged to further develop and refine their individual studio practice. This process is supported by small-group projects, lectures, group and individual tutorials and critiques.

This unit provides unified, studio-based activity where students investigate and develop their ideas through a variety of approaches and technologies. Experimentation is encouraged. In consultation with their academic advisor, students are expected to select two study options that reflect their individual concerns. Options that will be available are Framing Time, Cultural Research, Second Life and Studio Direction, which variously explore expanded photomedia practices including video, performance, social narrative, installation, and studio-based photography.

This unit provides a unified, studio-based activity where students investigate and develop their ideas through a variety of approaches and technologies. Experimentation is encouraged. In consultation with their academic advisor, students are expected to select two study options that reflect their individual concerns. Options that will be available are Framing Time, Cultural Research, Re-Enactments and Studio Direction, which variously explore expanded photomedia practices including video, social narrative, performance, installation, and studio-based photography.

Major study is a unified, studio-based activity where student investigate their creative ideas through a variety of approaches to digital film, video, sound and multimedia. In consultation with their academic advisor, students are expected to select study options that reflect their individual concerns.

Major study is a unified, studio-based activity where students investigate their creative ideas through a variety of approaches to digital film, video, sound and multimedia. In consultation with their academic advisor, students are expected to select study options that reflect their individual concerns.

This Unit of Study is split into two areas: Photomedia; Film and Digital Art.
Photomedia:
The focus in this Studio is the exploration of ways of critically interpreting photographs and of understanding a range of photographic practices. Topics such as memory, time, evidence, and the everyday, are selected to provide windows into both photographic history and keys aspects of photo-criticism.
Film and Digital Art:
The Electronic Image: Unpredictable Encounters
Across a wide range of electronic imaging platforms and issues students will study the interplay between technological possibilities, chance and manifestation of the idea (social, philosophical, cultural, aesthetic). As such students will come to a deeper understanding of the artistic process; also the history of the unpredictable encounters of the electronic image in its mediation of personal and public concerns.

This Unit of Study is split into two areas: Photomedia; Film and Digital Art.
Photomedia
The focus in this studio will be to approach photography via the work of selected contemporary and historical practitioners, in order to understand photography's key place in contemporary art practice. We will consider photography's role in relationship to themes such as: new documentary practices, identity politics, and performance.
Film and Digital Art
This module is designed in two parts: the study of documentary and non fiction forms, and television as an everyday phenomena, including its expansions into the internet and mobile media forms. The first part traces the complex history of documentary as it evolved from the late nineteenth and twentieth century, including its critical reception and theoretical, cultural and technical considerations. The second part examines the 'box' as a regulatory and programmable force through psychological, philosophical and cultural theorizations, including television's hyped liveness, its manipulation of desire and subjectivity, and postmodern schizophrenia as a manifestation of its induced crisis in temporality.

This Unit of Study is split into three areas: Painting; Sculpture; Printmedia
Painting
The focus in this studio is to address some of the critical moments of change in the visual arts from the early to later part of the 20th Century, by considering the key Modernist movements in the broader political, social, and gender, and racial context from the early Russian Avant Garde, De Stijl, Dada, Fluxus, Conceptualism, Minimalism, High Pop and on into the 80s
Sculpture
The focus in this studio is to identify and critically evaluate a number of the issues, methodologies and artists that have been instrumental in defining the key moments of Modernism within contemporary sculptural practice. The study format combines formal presentations, reading group discussions and student seminar presentations.
Printmedia
Contemporary Art: Focusing on the art of the past ten years, the first semester unit surveys the idea of contemporary art in its broadest sense, developing an appreciation of its breadth and diversity as well as establishing a clearer understanding of its relationship to modernist art. Connections between art, technology and cultural change are key themes.

This Unit of Study is split into three areas: Painting; Sculpture; Printmedia.
Painting:
Significant issues in art and related critical writing that have refashioned avant-garde practices since the 60s will be examined, with the primary focus on artists working within a discursive field. The aim is to provide students with an understanding of the connection between the object, that is the creative work, and the theoretical premise in related texts.
Sculpture:
An investigation into multi-media and trans-media practices. A primary concern will be a sound understanding of conceptual art since the 1960s and its redefintition of the object as a vector of an idea as opposed to an artifact. Another will be the ways in which technology has moulded our expectations of the art object/experience, particularly in relation to ideas such as interactivity and immersion.
Printmedia:
Here and Now: Using the broad understanding of contemporary art established in semester one, the unit moves on to look at the way in which a range of print and drawing based artists have developed their own practices in both local and international contexts.

Modernism and its Discontents: Old Stories, New Tales. This Unit of Study is split into three areas: Ceramics; Glass; Jewellery and Object. The unit of study investigates the development of contemporary Object Art and Design within the context of historical precedents and developments in the last hundred years. The focus is on developing an understanding of the link between craft/design practices and movements in the visual arts as a whole. Please note due to changes in class sizes course content may be modified.
Glass
In this studio we will work our way forward, focusing on the effect of the Historical Avant-garde and the emergence of design cultures and the studio glass movement. The course provides a broad exploration and interrogation of discipline specific glass in these movements/genres and cultures through to contemporary practice.
Ceramics
The focus in this studio will be to examine ceramics praxis and craft and design theories in relation to mainstream Modernism with a specific focus on the parallels and dichotomies found between craft and the Historical Avantgarde. The influence of early twentieth century practitioners and the theories and philosophies pertaining to their work on contemporary ceramics practice will be established. A range of issues will be discussed including: what is non-art? what is non-craft? - modernist definitions and paradoxes; definitions of craft - materiality, process and aesthetics; craft as foundation of modernism; craft as subversion in contemporary art practice.
Jewellery and Object
In this studio we will look at the complex relationship between the various art practices, and will investigate and expand on existing understandings of historical developments, connections and precedents of contemporary practice. A link will also be provided to core art theory, which this semester investigates avant-garde art and culture.

The Virtual and Handmade. This Unit of Study combines three areas: Ceramics; Glass; Jewellery and Object. The unit of study aims to introduce practitioners to philosophies and praxis surrounding the relationship between traditional craft and design models and our engagement with virtual technologies and recent innovations in materials and methods. This will be achieved by specifically focusing investigations upon new technologies, materials and process, the representation and dissemination of objects through various media, the work of contemporary practitioners and a variety of theoretical material that explores some aspect of the virtual. Students will be encouraged to investigate how issues of virtuality engage with and enable contemporary practice. Please note due to changes in class sizes course content may be modified.

In this unit the focus is on student-initiated studio work in consultation with staff. Students develop projects and select methods and technologies suitable for their individual programs and extend and develop new skills. Emphasis is placed on imaginative problem solving, development of a personal language, and conceptual and critical skill development. Students will engage with the research, development and fine-tuning of ideas, design and use of appropriate technologies. Students may choose to combine ceramics with other media through individual initiative or minor studies.

This unit focuses on the development and refinement of self-directed, studio-based projects. Students meet and discuss their work regularly with staff and are expected to finish work to a professional level, exhibiting it at the end-of-year exhibition. Students are expected to develop a personal language within their ceramic practice. In addition they are asked to develop a professional portfolio of their work.

Students will, in conjunction with staff, develop individual proposals that extend areas of exploration relevant to their interest and appropriate level of practical skill. Emphasis is placed on developing theoretical and relevant skill towards realising set goals. Students are expected to present a body of work that is the realisation of this proposal. Students are introduced to business skills related to sustaining a visual arts/crafts practice. A variety of glass-working activities are available for students to develop their skills, including: glass blowing, cold-working, polishing and cutting, lathe-working, engraving, kiln-working, casting and mould-making, flame-working and glass-painting and sand-blasting.

The unit provides a studio-based approach to glass-working. Students will, in conjunction with staff, develop individual proposals that continue to expand areas of exploration relevant to their interest and appropriate level of practical skill. Emphasis is placed on developing theoretical and relevant skills towards realising set goals. Students are expected to present a body of work that realises these goals. The body of work is expected to be cohesive and demonstrate competence in critical and technical terms. A variety of glass-working activities are available for students to develop their skills, including: glass-blowing, cold-working, polishing and cutting, lathe-working, engraving, kiln-working, casting and mould-making, flame-working and glass-painting and sand-blasting. This semester culminates in the professional presentation and documentation of this work in the end-of-year exhibition; therefore, skills are developed this semester that extend on the professional presentation and finishing of objects in glass and other materials.

Studio-based, learning experience of jewellery and object-design practice. Students work independently to explore individually identified approaches to the disciplines and to develop personally expressive material language, engaging with contemporary art, craft and design. Individual and group tutorials and critical discussion assist students to identify, develop, research and resolve concepts as they relate to the design and making of jewellery and objects, concluding in a resolved body of work.

Studio-based, learning experience of jewellery and object-design practice. Students work independently to explore individually identified approaches to the disciplines and to develop personally expressive material language, engaging with contemporary art, craft and design. Individual and group tutorials and critical discussion assist students to identify, develop, research and resolve concepts as they relate to the design and making of jewellery and objects, concluding in a resolved body of work.

The aims and objectives are achieved in the program by the use of a tutorial system. A different academic advisor is assigned to each group of combined Second- and Third-Year students. This grouping fulfils the educational function of peer support and learning, allowing the increasing maturity of the students to be a demonstrable outcome. The academic advisor is responsible for the progress of those students. To provide access to different intellectual points of view the four groups are remixed and rotated over four semesters. The other important aspect of the unit is the one-to-one studio tutorial, where the particular concerns and needs of the student are discussed, tailoring both technical information and theoretical knowledge in relation to the student's evolving work.

The aims and objectives are achieved in the program by the use of a tutorial system. A different academic advisor is assigned to each group of combined Second- and Third-Year students. This grouping fulfils the educational function of peer support and learning, allowing the increasing maturity of the students to be a demonstrable outcome. The academic advisor is responsible for the progress of those students. To provide access to different intellectual points of view the four groups are remixed and rotated over four semesters. The other important aspect of the unit is the one-to-one studio tutorial, where the particular concerns and needs of the student are discussed, tailoring both technical information and theoretical knowledge in relation to the student's evolving work.

The primary focus of the third year is on the consolidation of each student's own art or design practice. Students are expected to work in an independent and self-directed way, continuing to develop the body of work and ideas they initiated in second year. A program of individual and group tutorials will provide the framework for this process. The compulsory studio project for the semester focuses on website construction and the creation of a personal portfolio.

Students will be working independently in the studio, with the focus being on the completion of a fully resolved body of work for their final exhibition. A program of individual and group tutorials will provide the framework for this process. The studio project focuses on the end of year exhibition; using it as a further opportunity to learn practical skills and develop presentation strategies for showing work in public.

Study in Sculpture Performance and Installation is a unified, studio-based activity addressing the concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary sculpture. This includes traditional sculptural processes as well as incorporating new media and digital technologies that are currently reshaping contemporary practice. Each student, in consultation with academic staff, develops an outline of their proposed study program at the commencement of the semester and maintains a studio diary. Students present work regularly for review and are encouraged to further develop and refine their individual studio practice. This process is supported by small-group projects, lectures, group and individual tutorials and critiques.

Study in Sculpture Performance and Installation is a unified, studio-based activity addressing the concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary sculpture. This includes traditional sculptural processes as well as incorporating new media and digital technologies that are currently reshaping contemporary practice. Each student, in consultation with academic staff, develops an outline of their proposed study program at the commencement of the semester and maintains a studio diary. Students present work regularly for review and are encouraged to further develop and refine their individual studio practice. This process is supported by small-group projects, lectures, group and individual tutorials and critiques.

Students will be expected to: confidently explore working processes and directions that are personally relevant; refine the skills; and demonstrate facility with analog/digital technical processes appropriate to this enterprise. A coherent body of work, evidence of an independent practice or to serve as a foundation for further study, is the desired outcome at this stage. Students are expected to participate in a weekly studio class, project development meetings and the Studio Enrichment program and to engage in the relevant academic requirements.

Students will be expected to: confidently explore working processes and directions that are personally relevant; refine the skills; and demonstrate facility with analog/digital technical processes appropriate to this enterprise. A coherent body of work, evidence of an independent practice or to serve as a foundation for further study, is the desired outcome at this stage. Students are expected to participate in a weekly studio class, project development meetings and the Studio Enrichment program and to engage in the relevant academic requirements.

Production of studio-based class and individual projects; development of studio portfolio/journal. Students will be expected to confidently explore working processes and directions that are personally relevant, to refine skills and to demonstrate facility with the technical processes appropriate to this enterprise. Students will produce a coherent body of work that reflects evidence of an independent practice that may serve as a foundation for further study.

Students will be expected to confidently explore working processes and directions that are personally relevant, to refine skills and to demonstrate facility with the technical processes appropriate to this enterprise. Students will produce a coherent body of work that reflects evidence of an independent practice that may serve as a foundation for further study.

This Unit of Study is split into two areas: Photomedia; Film and Digital Art.
Photomedia:
In this studio we will primarily focus on key aspects of photomedia in relation to contemporary art theories and practices. Emphasis will be placed on exploring photography's "discursive spaces", and developing a more complex understanding of the role between theory and praxis. In particular, we will examine how individual practices contribute and respond to issues of globalisation, cultural memory and identity, and new technologies.
Film and Digital Art
The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Culture Part 1: In this studio we will examine the historical, cultural and theoretical frameworks of the virtual in late-capitalist digital media culture. The student will be introduced to contemporary debates concerning the evolution of the virtual in today's audiovisual culture from modernism to recent times. Students will be encouraged to examine the shifting complexities of the virtual in cultural and media theory and their implications for their own art practice.

This unit of study is split into two areas: Photomedia; Film and Digital Art.
Photomedia
In this studio the focus will be to extend our enquiry into contemporary art and photomedia. We will further explore the question "What is photography?" in light of the medium's slippage across the realms of art and popular culture. Drawing on key contemporary philosophers, theorists, and practitioners, we will continue to consider how you might locate and interpret your own emerging research in relation to contemporary art practices.
Film and Digital Art
The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Culture Part 2: recent theories of the new digital sublime in postcinema and the new image technologies will be explored and certain critical, literary and experimental audiovisual traditions from modernism to present times will be traced. Part 2 is structured in two connecting modules. The student will be examining fundamental issues of contemporary literary and media aesthetics and related genres of postmodern techno-creativity.

This Unit of Study is split into three areas: Painting; Sculpture; Printmedia
Painting
The focus in this studio is to investigate the key moments that shaped Australian Contemporary Painting beginning with The Field, the first exhibition of Abstract Painting in Australia in 1968 to the present. We will primarily focus on Australian painters to provide students with an understanding of their local context and history.
Sculpture
Imaginary, Natural and Instutitutionalised Spaces: the overarching concern of this semester will be to get students to co-ordinate their imaginative ambitions relating to the object with regard to culture, place, space and architecture. What objects or performances work best where? A reflection on modes of display and the rhetoric of reception particularly in relation to museums, public spaces, and the technologies of television, film and the internet will be encouraged.
Printmedia
The unit has two sections. The first considers the overlap of Art and Design from a historical perspective and uses this understanding to explore the contemporary relationship between the two. The second section looks at the cultural/economic landscape within which local artists work. It surveys the venues, commercial opportunities, government funding organizations and social dynamics that make up the 'artworld' in Australia.

This Unit of Study is split into three areas: Painting; Sculpture; Printmedia
Painting
The aim in this studio is to consolidate the student's understanding of the critical debates surrounding painting at the beginning of the twenty-first century and to assist in developing a clearer understanding of the place of their
own work in this history.
Sculpture
The last module concentrates on personal presentation, promotion and professional practice with special emphasis on sculpture, performance and installation: appropriate avenues of exhibition, good grant writing, effective artist talks, publication facilitation (journals and catalogues), websites and attendance at festivals and other events. The module is geared at maximizing the potential of the artist as a professional in the public sphere.
Printmedia
Professional Practice: using a combination of formal lectures, student seminars and gallery visits, the unit helps students develop a clearer understanding of the relationship between their own art practice and the professional and public domains in which they intend to work. The roles of galleries, public funding, the Internet and other vocational contexts are surveyed.

Locating Practice. This Unit of Study is split into three areas: Ceramics; Glass; Jewellery and Object. The unit of study explores the notion on 'inter-disciplinary' practice, what it might mean and entail through various readings on contemporary art and craft practice. Students will be asked to explore the many and varied fields of interest a practitioner may be engaging with. Throughout the unit students will be expected to be critically analysing what their own area of continuing research within their own practice may be. Please note due to changes in class sizes course content may be modified.
Glass
Contemporary studio glass engages with a wide variety of materials and processes. We will expand the dialogue in respect of the interdisciplinary nature inherent in this activity. Through discussion on appropriate genres, styles, syntax and classification, methodologies for articulating and critiquing practice will be explored.
Ceramics
The focus in this studio will be to consolidate the learning outcomes of previous TEO units undertaken in first and second year and to provide a framework for the student studying ceramics to situate their practice within an expanded field of contemporary art practice. This will be achieved through critical examination and analysis of the processes and strategies used by the contemporary ceramicist and the theoretical dialogue that informs and surrounds their work.
A range of issues relevant to contemporary practice will be addressed including: the affects of new technologies on the production of the physical object; globalisation and the survival of the studio ceramics movement; cross cultural production and the status of craft today; where am I? - an investigation of the ways contemporary ceramicists engage in interdisciplinary and hybrid praxis across traditional visual art disciplines, the humanities and sciences.
Jewellery and Object
In this studio we will expand the dialogue in respect to the interdisciplinary nature inherent in the Jewellery and Object studio. Through investigation of genres, styles, syntax and classification, methodologies for articulating and critiquing practice will be explored.

Understanding Professional Practice. This Unit of Study combines three areas: Ceramics; Glass; Jewellery and Object.
The unit of study serves to locate a student's practice in a professional context. Through participating in a series of workshops and lectures you will develop and apply strategies fundamental to sound visual arts business practice. Relevant topics such as arts law, copyright, contracts, exhibiting, photographing work, writing of proposals and curriculum vitae and defining a market will be examined. You will be asked to consider and formulate how you want to present yourself publicly as an artist. Knowledge of these areas will establish the solid foundation necessary to facilitate your ability as an artist to sustain a strong business ethic that will enhance and extend your creative working life. These issues will enable you to understand the arts / crafts industry and prepare you for a range of possible career options within the visual arts. Please note due to changes in class sizes course content may be modified.

This elective introduces students to a range of body focused art practices. The subject looks at the body of the artist, the embodied audience member, the body in art and the theoretical body. The body is understood to be a site of content and critique, an open subject onto and into which art is projected.

The Surrealists challenged orthodox views on 'nature', 'reality', 'morality', and 'beauty'. They were dedicated to social and artistic freedom, an art of the instincts, and the power of the unconscious. What ethical, aesthetic, and political aspects of Surrealism are relevant to art in the Twenty-First century and what is the nature of the surrealist impulse in contemporary art and design?

This elective explores the development of Aboriginal art in historical and contemporary contexts. The work of Indigenous Australian artists reveals a significant and continuing dialogue with land and country, and is engaged with society, culture, identity and politics at the forefront of Australia's contemporary art world.

This elective examines the discourse of memory through the practice of contemporary art and theory. From this perspective, it considers the relationship between memory, the politics of identity, and history through a critical exploration of different forms of remembrance, such as: storytelling and autobiography; collective memory; forgetting and the erasure of time; and trauma and embodiment.

Street art has emerged as a significant cultural phenomenon in the post-globalised world of the 21st century, particularly in the major metropoles of wealthy as well as developing nations. This unit contextualises street art theoretically by reference to the politics of urban space, new practices and understandings of collective action, and aesthetics, and considers the institutional location of street art versus contemporary art and graffiti. The unit also contextualises street practices art historically by reference to Surrealism, conceptualism, Fluxus, Situationism, and text-based art. It covers a wide range of practices internationally, with particular emphasis on Latin America, Australia and Europe.

This elective poses the question, "Is all art political?" The unit looks at how visual practices are supported and co-opted by regimes of power, and investigates the difference between status-quo cultural practices and those which espouse revolution and cultural critique. Topics might include: Dada, Fluxus, interventionists, propaganda, and underground sub-cultures.

How do artists engage with the ebb and flow of daily life and the material conditions of the street, the city, and the home? This elective focuses on artists who heighten our awareness of everyday by using ready-mades and found objects, by exploring the exotic in the banal, and by creating domestic worlds and the urban-scapes of gritty realism and great imagination.

This elective interrogates the complex ways in which objects of visual culture are produced and the affect of social and political contexts on their reception. We will ask, where is the object situated in the economy of signs, of gender and of money. In doing so we will address objects of: ritual, utility, contemplation, kitsch, and transgression. .

In 1971, Conceptual artist Gordon Matta-Clark opened Food, a restaurant run by artists, where cooking and dining become a means of artistic expression and debate. Twenty years later, Rirkrit Tiravanija's work Untitled (Free) took the form of a Thai meal cooked by the artist in the gallery for its patrons. Taking its cue form works such as these, this elective explores expanded models of contemporary art practice and new forms of institutional and social critique. Drawing on the legacies of Situationism and Conceptual Art, it addresses the current dynamics of authorship (such as collaboration and artist collectives), spectatorship, and the politics of space.

Animation as a form spans the visual arts and the entertainment industry. This unit explores theories and histories of animation that address these diverse contexts. One strand focuses on the relationship between art movements and animation practices from the early 20th century on, and the legacy of this in contemporary experimental and independent animation. A second strand focuses on animation as popular culture, including the important role of animation in the development of cinematic SFX, including CGI. The unit explores the various textual strategies used in animation, such as abstraction, self-referentiality and intertextuality, as well as analyzing the critical impulse in animation given its traditionally 'low' cultural status.

This elective unit in Ceramics provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow project-based curriculum addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary Ceramics. Thematic approaches will be supported by technical introductions to handbuilding, wheelwork, surface treatments and kiln firing to encourage exploration with Ceramics methodologies. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical skills appropriate to the assigned projects. This elective is suitable for those who have no or limited experience with the material and its technologies.

This unit is designed to enhance and broaden the skills of students who already have a sound foundation in the ceramics discipline and are working at an Advanced level. Students must propose a personal research plan leading to a body of work in consultation with an academic staff member.

This unit is designed to enhance and broaden the skills of students who already have a sound foundation in the ceramics discipline and are working at an Advanced level. Students must propose a personal research plan leading to a body of work and exhibition plan in consultation with an academic staff member.

The Introductory Elective unit in Warm Glass provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow a project-based curriculum addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to kiln fusing and slumping (Warm Glass).

This elective is designed to continue glass research at an intermediate level with a view to becoming self-directed.
The Intermediate Elective unit in Warm Glass provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow a project-based curriculum addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to kiln fusing and slumping (Warm Glass).

This unit is designed for students to undertake self-directed work. It is expected that students will develop proposal related projects specific to the sub discipline area of the elective they have chosen.
The Advanced Elective follows a self-directed curriculum addresses concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to kiln fusing and slumping (Warm Glass).

The Introductory Elective unit in Hot Glass provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow a project-based curriculum addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary hot glass.

This elective is designed to continue glass research at an intermediate level with a view to becoming self-directed.
The Intermediate Elective unit in Hot Glass provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will in consultation with an academic staff member, follow a project-based curriculum addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary hot glass.

This unit is designed for students to undertake self-directed work. It is expected that students will develop proposal related projects specific to the sub discipline area of the elective they have chosen.
The Advanced Elective unit in Hot Glass provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will in consultation with an academic staff member, follow a self-directed curriculum addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary hot glass.

The Jewellery and Object Introductory unit (Bodyworks) provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work that engages with the space and physical dimensions of the body. In this unit students will follow a project-based curriculum, addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary jewellery and objects of a human scale.
The unit provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical skills appropriate to the assigned projects.

In this unit students will develop and make a series of vessels using the tradition of silversmithing as their technical and conceptual starting point. The appropriate forming processes, including the doming, raising, and planishing of sheetmetal, will be introduced alongside an examination of the historical foundations of the area and insights into the contemporary context. In addition the design development undertaken will outline the potential for working at a larger scale in metal, the unique form language that grows from hammer forming and the key relationships between the flat blank and the finished object.

This unit looks at different methods of applying colour to the surface of metal, including anodising, enamelling and patination. Students will consider the different constraints of each method and use this information to develop a small collection which explores the concept of tension, where 2 contrasting forces work with, or against, each other.

This unit is designed to provide a studio based approach to translating drawings into materials through the industrialized processes of cutting such as laser cutting, vinyl cutting, plasma cutting etc.
Digitally mediated cutting such as laser cutting or vinyl cutting opens up possibilities for reproducing or translating graphic ideas and drawings in a variety of different ways.
The unit will work through the processes necessary for making graphic art work ready to take up these possibilities, such as, producing a large quantity of smaller elements, the cutting of intricate patterns, working with materials that are difficult to cut, or using the process to distort shape or manipulate the scale of the final work. Our focus will be on translating digital drawing into materials. The software we will be using will be a combination of commercial and open source software and we will be outsourcing the actual cutting process and working with the relevant companies.

This unit focuses on material and significance in the processes of the conception and making of jewellery and how these appear in both contemporary and historical work. This unit takes an intensive approach to learning where students will be introduced to industry related examples in their relevant contexts. For example, this may be on location in the Australian goldfields or in the international jewellery epicenter in Munich or in the steel-working industry of NSW.
Studio projects will be based on experience and research developed in the field.

The Introductory Elective provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will follow a project-based curriculum, addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary painting. Thematic approaches will be supported by technical introductions to encourage exploration with painting methodologies. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical skills appropriate to the assigned projects.

The Intermediate Elective provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will follow a project-based curriculum, addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary painting. Thematic approaches will be supported by technical introductions to encourage exploration with painting methodologies. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical skills appropriate to the assigned projects.

The Advanced Elective unit in Painting provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow a self-directed curriculum, addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to a student's personal concerns. Thematic approaches will be supported by technical methodologies appropriate to the self-directed projects. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques.

The aim of this elective unit is to introduce students to screen printing and its broad application across media. The technical basics of this process will be explored through projects that encourage students to link their major studio work to this medium. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical knowledge required to independently access and use the Printmedia studio facilities.

This unit is designed to introduce and enhance skills in etching and is open to both students within and external to the Printmedia studio discipline. Throughout the semester students will follow a project-based curriculum in a broad range of technically based workshops intrinsic to the medium of etching. Students familiar with the intaglio process will be encouraged to engage in a sustained self-directed project addressing concepts and methodologies central to their creative ideas. This project will be supported by a series of more specialized workshops that expand on traditional approaches and encourage experimentation and exploration across media to further the development of their creative practice.

Introduction to Digital Publishing introduces students to the basics of InDesign, a software program that has become industry standard for designing digital and paper publications. Focusing on experimental magazines and other small scale artist's publications the course explores the visual language of contemporary publishing. Students learn about the complex interplay of text, image and sequence involved in producing multipage documents/artworks through the practical experience of creating their own InDesign publication.

The Installation Project Room elective in Printmedia provides a studio-based approach to the installation and presentation of creative work. In consultation with academic staff students will follow a self-directed project addressing the challenges, considerations and strategies. In addition to installing and presenting their own project students will be expected to contribute to the discussion and critique of other student exhibitions in group tutorial format.
The elective is configured to encourage experimentation, co-operative learning and peer-to-peer project initiatives.

This unit is designed to enrich and broaden the conceptual and technical development of students who have a sound foundation in the Printmedia studio. It aim is to support and encourage students who are working at an advanced level. In consultation with their lecturer, students will develop a personal project plan that will lead to the creation of a conceptually focused body of work.

The Introductory Elective unit in Sculpture provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow a project-based curriculum, addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary Sculpture. Individual and/or collaborative, studio-based projects will be supported by technical demonstrations and workshops. These assist students to develop competence with a range of sculptural methodologies. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques.

The Intermediate Elective unit in Sculpture provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. At the beginning of the semester each student develops an individual work proposal in consultation with an academic staff member. This proposal forms the basis of a self-directed curriculum addressing the concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to the individual student's developing art practice. Each student's creative development will be supported by access to academic staff consultations. These consultations focus on the conceptual and creative aspects of a student's studio work. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques.

The Advanced Elective unit in Sculpture provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. At the beginning of the semester each student develops an individual work proposal in consultation with an academic staff member. This proposal forms the basis of a self-directed curriculum addressing the concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to the individual student's developing art practice. Each student's creative development will be supported by access to academic staff consultations. These consultations focus on the conceptual and creative aspects of a student's studio work. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques.

The Introductory Elective provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will follow a project-based curriculum, addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary Photomedia. Thematic approaches will be supported by technical introductions to encourage exploration with Photomedia methodologies. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical skills appropriate to the assigned projects.

The Intermediate Elective provides a studio-based approach to the production of self-directed creative work within a fine art context. Throughout the semester students will follow a project-based curriculum, addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary Photomedia. The elective provides for the enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the further development of technical skills appropriate to the self-directed projects.

The Managing and Developing Digital Imagery (Working With Lightroom, Camera Raw And Bridge) unit in Photomedia provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow two self-directed projects addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to a student's personal concerns.
Students' thematic approaches will be supported by digital technical methodologies appropriate to the self-directed projects. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques.

The Digital Photo Editing (Working With Photoshop) unit in Photomedia provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow two self-directed projects addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to a student's personal concerns.
Students' thematic approaches will be supported by digital technical methodologies appropriate to the self-directed projects. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques.

The Digital Narrative (Working With InDesign) unit in Photomedia provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will, in consultation with an academic staff member, follow a self-directed extended project addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to a student's personal concerns. Students' thematic approaches will be supported by digital methodologies appropriate to the self-directed projects. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques.

The Introductory Elective provides a studio-based approach to the production of creative work. Throughout the semester students will follow a project-based curriculum, addressing concepts, methodologies and technologies integral to contemporary Film and Digital Art. Thematic approaches will be supported by technical introductions to encourage exploration with Film and Digital Art methodologies. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of critical skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical skills appropriate to the assigned projects.

This unit addresses the conceptual areas of sound design with a practical focus on developing digital sound recording skills and creating soundtracks for digital video using the recording industry standard Pro Tools software. Students will be introduced the basic principles involved in planning a soundtrack for a film or video project and explore different conceptual approaches to sound in media art in both the local and international context.
Students complete in studio exercises and create a three-minute sound piece for assessment. This work will include recorded voice, sampled and recorded location sounds and/or music, and demonstrate conceptual proficiency and technical competency in sound design with Pro Tools software.

This unit develops proficiency in Video Editing in Final Cut Pro software and DVD mastering in DVD Studio Pro culminating in the realisation of creative media art works at an advanced level of conceptual and technical expertise. In consultation with the Academic Advisor, students will develop a short video project to be edited on Final Cut Pro and authored on DVD Studio Pro. In addition to software tutorials, there will be readings, screenings and discussions about concepts in editing and post-production.

The Screenwriting Elective focuses on narrative script development by providing students with the tools of constructing "story" through characterisation, active language, succinct visuals and plot. Students will, in consultation with the Academic Advisor, develop three to four drafts of a screenplay for a 5-7 minute film. The elective provides for the development and enhancement of skills through group critiques of casting and work-shopped readings of the students' own draft screenplays at regular intervals during the semester. Students are expected to produce a final draft screenplay for assessment in week 15.

This elective is designed to introduce students to the fundamental concepts that underlay animation production. Through a series of hands on exercises students will explore the processes and concepts required to successfully produce an simple limited animation video.
The hands on exercises will allow the students to gain a historical context of animation and highlight the skills required to produce an animated video. Thematic approaches will be supported by technical introductions to encourage exploration with Animation techniques.
The elective provides for the development and enhancement of production skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical skills appropriate to the assigned projects. The subject will explore frame-by-frame animation, stop motion animation and limited animation techniques giving students a base to develop more complex animation productions.

This unit deepens students' understanding of processes and concepts required to successfully produce a short 2D animation video. Using istop-motion, After Effects and Final cut pro software, students will develop production skills through a series of hands on exercises culminating in the production of a short 2D animation project for assessment.
Screenings of historical and contemporary works will be supported by class discussion and technical introductions to encourage exploration with animation techniques.
The unit provides for the development and enhancement of production skills through group and individual tutorials and critiques and the acquisition of technical skills appropriate to the assigned projects. Sound design, frame-by-frame animation, stop motion animation and other animation techniques will be explored in further depth giving students the opportunity to develop complex 2D animation productions.

In this unit we will focus on key aspects of curating and exhibiting in relation to contemporary art theories and practices. Emphasis will be placed on exploring an understanding of the role between theory and praxis. In particular, we will examine the curatorial function in relation to how curatorial strategies operate in terms of a variety of contemporary exhibition models, galleries, museums, and commercial artspaces; exhibition development; reflexive and critical awareness of the different objectives that inform the directions of the galleries; residency centres, contemporary art and artist run initiatives (ARIs) and their contexts within the visual art infrastructure

The Art of Sound unit will engage a studio-based approach to the production of sound art works through the prism of two of its primary means, namely recording and amplification. The emphasis will be on the production of recorded sound works and sound devices that can expand and develop the relationships between the analogue and the digital. The unit will begin with ideas from sound ecology and music concrete and open up the terrain through field recording, sound manipulation and performance. This unit will be conducted across various studios, working in an open studio framework within workshops, sound studios and digital labs.
Sound has the potential to invent new sonic landscapes and to demarcate unheard psycho-geographies: from radical approaches towards production to potential new collaborations in the street (or in the landscape), from the technical and the scientific to oral investigations of the social. This open studio investigates sound as a primary vehicle for artistic expression in a work of contemporary art.

The Art of Noise unit will engage a studio-based approach to the production of sound art works. The emphasis will be on the production of sound objects, sound sculpture, sound installation, performance and new ways of working with sound. The unit will begin with the physicality of sound and music physics as a starting point, listening to sonic phenomena, materials, forms and existing sound works. This unit will be conducted across various studios in an open studio framework working within a variety of workshops, sound studios and digital labs.
The Art of Noise works with experimental sound under the broadest terms, as sound crosses barriers through physical and cultural space. This unit explores the potential of new sonic sculptures, instruments and installations that cover a plethora of approaches to sound. This open studio investigates sound as a force in the world.

The manifestation of text has appeared across a multiplicity of art forms. The Experimental Writing Studio: From Street Art to the White Cube unit investigates text and language in art, via self-directed projects that are unbounded by medium and yet use writing as the genesis or as primary material for the production of a work of art. This subject encompasses a terrain that potentially goes from street art to high culture.
Students are able to work in an open ended way with text, either as starting point or as a finished work. From a screenplay or work of fiction to a body of paintings or sculptures. From artists books, zines, net art and editions the ultimate form that the work takes is determined by the needs of the idea proposed. The subject can also encompass time based art forms such as video, sound, and performance art. This open studio interdisciplinary subject investigates text and writing as a generator of potential new art forms and hybrids.
Students will work by way of a self-directed project and on one short in class project. The subject will be taught by way of tutorials, group critique, workshops, lectures and guest lectures.

This unit aims to give students an experience of a successful practice in contemporary art, craft or design. Through professional placement with practising artists and designers, students will develop skills that enable them to work towards their own sustainable practice and to make valuable community contacts in their chosen discipline. Students interested in enrolling in the unit should consult their academic advisor to ascertain if the programme is running in their subject area in any particular semester, and also to make arrangements for the placement.

This unit aims to give students an experience of a successful practice in contemporary art, craft or design. Through professional placement with practising artists and designers, students will develop skills that enable them to work towards their own sustainable practice and to make valuable community contacts in their chosen discipline. Students interested in enrolling in the unit should consult their academic advisor to ascertain if the programme is running in their subject area in any particular semester, and also to make arrangements for the placement.

This unit draws on the SCA artists-in-residence program to develop analyses, and a practical understanding, of how new work is developed. Visiting artists will propose and run programs that are primarily research-led learning experiences for students.
The program is offered according to visiting artists' availability and scheduled activities in semester one or two. The learning activities for this unit may be intensive over a short period, and timetables will be available through the chair of each subject area.

This unit draws on the SCA artists-in-residence program to develop analyses, and a practical understanding, of how new work is developed. Visiting artists will propose and run programs that are primarily research-led learning experiences for students.
The program is offered according to visiting artists' availability and scheduled activities in semester one or two. The learning activities for this unit may be intensive over a short period, and timetables will be available through the chair of each subject area.