Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies
Unit outlines will be available through Find a unit outline two weeks before the first day of teaching for 1000-level and 5000-level units, or one week before the first day of teaching for all other units.
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Visual Arts (Degree) |
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| The following units are only available to Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies students | |||
Visual Arts |
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Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies |
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| To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Visual Arts/Bachelor of Advanced Studies, a candidate must complete 192 credit points including: | |||
| (i) 72 credit points of Studio units | |||
| (ii) 24 credit points of Art History units, of which 12 credit points must be from 1000 level and 12 credit points must be from 2000 or 3000 level. | |||
| (iii) A major from Table S, excluding the Visual Arts major | |||
| (iv) 12 credit points of Open Learning Environment units from Table O | |||
| (v) a minimum of 24 credit points at 4000 level from this table | |||
| (vi) elective units from this table, Table O or Table S where appropriate | |||
Bachelor of Visual Arts |
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| To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Visual Arts, a candidate must complete 144 credit points including: | |||
| (i) 72 credit points of Studio units | |||
| (ii) 24 credit points of Art History units, of which 12 credit points must be from 1000 level and 12 credit points must be from 2000 or 3000 level | |||
| (iii) 48 credit points from Elective units in this table, Table O or Table S, which may, optionally include a minor or major, excluding the Visual Arts major or minor | |||
Studio units |
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1000 level units of study |
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| CASF1001 Studio Foundation 1 |
12 | Semester 1 |
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| CASF1002 Studio Foundation 2 |
12 | P CASF1001 N CAST1001 |
Semester 2 |
2000 level units of study |
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| CAST2001 Studio 1 |
12 | P CASF1002 or CAST1001 |
Semester 1 |
| CAST2002 Studio 2 |
12 | P CAST2001 or EXCH2005 |
Semester 2 |
3000 level units of study |
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| CAST3001 Studio 3 |
12 | P CAST2002 or EXCH2005 |
Semester 1 |
| CAST3002 Studio 4 |
12 | P CAST3001 or EXCH3005 |
Semester 2 |
Art History units |
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1000-level units of study |
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| ARHT1001 Style and Substance: Introducing Art History |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| ARHT1002 Shock of the Now: Global Art since 1900 |
6 | Semester 2 |
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2000-level units of study |
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| ARHT2614 Pollock to Psychedelia |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT2616 High Renaissance Art This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2016 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2618 French Art, Salon to Cezanne This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2018 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2632 Modern Australian Art and Cinema This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2032 |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT2636 Contemporary Indigenous Art |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Indigenous Studies N ARHT2036 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2640 Contemporary Asian Art This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2040 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2645 Arts in Imperial China This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2671 Art, Travel, Empires |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2071 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2674 Fashion and Dress: Past and Present This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT2675 Fieldwork: Art at the Gallery This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies Taught as a three-hour block. To meet the agreement we have established with our industry partner, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, this unit will be taught as a three-hour block. This structure allows us to engage in focused and extended object-based learning activities, the logistics and pedagogy of which require an extended block of time. Teaching in a three hour block means less disruption to the gallery's schedule. |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2676 Planetary Art: Nature, Ecology, Environment This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT2677 Art, Memory, and Identity This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2678 Islamic Art and Architecture This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts |
Semester 1 |
| FILM2000 From Silent to Sound Cinema |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Film Studies major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Art History major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major N ARHT2052 or ARHT2652 |
Semester 2 |
| FILM2001 Memory of the World: Key Films |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Film Studies major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Art History major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major N ARHT2053 or ARHT2653 |
Semester 1 |
3000-level units of study |
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| ARHT3610 Art in the Age of Giotto |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History N ARHT2610 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT3617 British Art and Empire This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History N ARHT2617 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT3633 Contemporary Australian Art and Film |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2633 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT3646 Modern Art in East Asia |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2646 |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3662 On Photography and the Wretched Screen |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History N ARHT2662 |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3663 Gender and Sexuality in Asian Art History This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3672 Fieldwork: Art and the City This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
12 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Intensive July |
| ARHT3673 Art and the Aesthetics of the Everyday |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| ARHT3674 Objects and Problems: Old Regime Europe This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Art History Major or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT3675 Objects and Problems at Chau Chak Wing Museum This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 cred points at 2000 level in the Art History major |
Semester 2 |
| FILM3000 Cinematic Transformations |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Digital Cultures or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT3601 |
Semester 2 |
Elective units of study |
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1000-level units of study |
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| CAEL1001 Contemporary Drawing: Experimental |
6 | N CADR1006 |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL1002 Contemporary Drawing: Life |
6 | N CADR1005 |
Semester 1 |
2000-level units of study |
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| CAEL2039 Screen Arts: an Introduction |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Film Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2041 The Art of Sound and Noise |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| CAEL2042 Photography and the Darkroom |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Intensive July Semester 1 |
| CAEL2044 Radical Rock Video |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2045 Site Works: Sculptural Interventions |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2046 Painting Music This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| CAEL2047 Animation |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2048 Investigating Clay |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2049 Vessel as Concept: Hot Glass Intro |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major or 12 credit point at 1000 level Studio Foundation units in the Bachelor of Visual Arts |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2053 Screen Printing: an Introduction |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| CAEL2054 Silversmithing: Exoskeleton Extension |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| CAEL2055 Bodyworks: Jewellery as Communication |
6 | Semester 1 |
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| CAEL2060 Experimental Writing Studio This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2069 Screenwriting and Directing |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2072 Ceramics: Potter's Wheel as Sculptural Tool |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| CAEL2076 Upcycled Glass: Introducing Warm Glass |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CAEL2080 Etching: Expanded Workshops |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2081 Fusion: Jewellery and Ceramics |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2083 Virtual Objects 2D This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2085 Photography and the Lighting Studio |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CAEL2086 On Site: Fieldwork and Practicums |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2092 Sculpture: Introduction |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Bachelor of Visual Arts |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2093 Sculpture: Installation and Space |
6 | Semester 2 |
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| CAEL2094 Painting: Transcultural Collaborations This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | N CAEL2067 |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2095 Video Art This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major or 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Bachelor of Visual Arts |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2096 Non-Objective Painting |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts major or 12 credit points of 1000 level Studio Foundation unit in the Bachelor of Visual Arts |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL2097 Performance Art for the Internet |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major or 12 credit points of 1000 level Studio Foundation unit in the Bachelor of Visual Arts |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL2098 Intermediate Hot Glass |
6 | P CAEL2049 or relevant prior experience commensurate to a 12 x 3hrs per week introduction to glass blowing |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CAEL2099 Intermediate Glass: Fusing and Slumping |
6 | P CAEL2076 or relevant glass fusing experience commensurating with a 12 week introductory glass fusing unit |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CAEL2100 The Art of Documentary |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Visual Arts major or 12 credit points of Studio Foundation units in the Bachelor of Visual Arts |
Semester 2 |
| CAPP2003 Professional Placement for Artists |
6 |
Note: Department permission required for enrolment |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
3000-level units of study |
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| CAEL3014 Image/Object in Photomedia |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation N CAEL2043 |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL3015 Glass in Time: Advanced Hot Glass |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Visual Arts including CAEL2049 N CAEL2078 |
Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| CAEL3016 Experimental Film |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Studio Foundation |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL3017 Skin and Sign: Ceramic Surfaces |
6 | N CAEL2073 |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL3018 Introduction to Digital Publishing |
6 | N CAEL2052 |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL3019 Advanced Photography and the Darkroom |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Visual Arts including CAEL2042 |
Semester 2 |
| CAEL3020 Critical Bodies: Performance Art Practice This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Visual Arts major or 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Bachelor of Visual Arts |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL3021 Expanded Painting |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or Studio Foundation |
Semester 1 |
| CAEL3022 Posters to Paste-ups This unit of study is not available in 2021 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts or Studio Foundation N CAEL2051 |
Semester 2 |