Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

1. create an imaginative and focused body of artworks by integrating studio and contextual investigation/research.
2. Select and combine materials and processes skillfully to give visual form to your ideas.
   
3. Critically reflect on your research project and explain your decision-making processes.
4. Identify and analyse relevant historical and contemporary practices and relate them to your own concerns.

Other Information

Requirements for enrolment in Visual Arts honours:

1. Completion of the requirements for the pass degree;
2. 48 units of Major study with normally a Distinction average in later year courses
3. A Research Proposal approved by the School of Art Committee or nominee.

Indicative Assessment

At the end of the program, students present a portfolio of studio work (80%) [LO’s 1, 2] and submit a 3 - 5000 wd exegesis which gives a detailed explanation of their project and provides a critical analysis of contextual issues (20%) [LO’s 3, 4].

 

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Workload

Four hours lectures, tutorials and studio critiques, a 2 hour seminar and 22 hours of independent study per week.

Requisite and Incompatibility

You will need to contact the School of Art to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

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