Art History
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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.
Errata
| Item | Errata | Date |
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Due to a technical error, the availability of some units of study is incorrectly listed. ARHT2676 |
21/01/2022 |
| Unit of study | Credit points | A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition | Session |
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Art History |
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Major |
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| A major in Art History requires 48 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units | |||
| (iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units | |||
| (iv) 18 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
| (v) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units | |||
Minor |
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| A minor in Art History requires 36 credit points from this table including: | |||
| (i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units | |||
| (ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level core or selective units | |||
| (iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units | |||
1000 level units of study |
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Core |
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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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Core |
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| ARHT2680 Why Art Matters |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in the Art History major |
Semester 2 |
Selective |
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| ARHT2602 Romanticism and Visual Art This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P ARHT1001 and ARHT1002 |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT2614 Pollock to Psychedelia This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies N ARHT2016 |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT2618 French Art, Salon to Cezanne |
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 2022 |
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 1 |
| ARHT2645 Arts in Imperial China This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 |
| ARHT2676 Planetary Art: Nature, Ecology, Environment |
6 | P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT2677 Art, Memory, and Identity This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 2022 |
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 |
3000 level units of study |
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Selective |
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| ARHT3617 British Art and Empire |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History N ARHT2617 |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT3633 Contemporary Australian Art and Film This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
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 This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History N ARHT2662 |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3663 Gender and Sexuality in Asian Art History |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3673 Art and the Aesthetics of the Everyday |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Art History major |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3675 Objects and Problems at Chau Chak Wing Museum |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Art History major |
Semester 2 |
| ARHT3678 Text, Image, Sound: Islamic Book Arts |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History |
Semester 1 |
| ARHT3680 A Material World: Cultures of Design |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Art History major |
Semester 2 |
| ARIN3630 Digital Arts |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Digital Cultures major or Art History major or Design Computing major or Film Studies major or (6 credit points at 1000 level and 6 credit points at 2000 level in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship major) N ARIN2630 |
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 |
| FILM3001 Cinematic Time |
6 | P 12 credits at 2000 level in the Film Studies major or 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Art History major N ARHT3676 |
Semester 2 |
| FILM3002 Cinema Spectatorship |
6 | P 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Film Studies major or 12 credit points at 2000 level in the Art History major N ARHT2655 or ARHT3677 |
Semester 1 |
Interdisciplinary project unit of study |
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| If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major. | |||
| If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major. | |||
| If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major. | |||
| FASS3999 Interdisciplinary Impact |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| ARHT3999 Interdisciplinary Impact This unit of study is not available in 2022 |
6 | P Completion of at least 90 credit points N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December |
Intensive December Semester 1 Semester 2 |
| ARHT3998 Industry and Community Project |
6 | P 72 credit points C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major |
Intensive February Intensive July Semester 1 Semester 2 |