• Offered by School of Art
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Course subject Art History
  • Areas of interest Art History
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Prof Helen Ennis
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in Summer Session 2016
    See Future Offerings

The course in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art has three main aims:
* Provide students with basic geographical and historical frameworks for the study of indigenous visual arts in Australia and the Torres Strait Islands.
* Familiarise students with concepts that indigenous peoples have expressed as fundamental to their understandings of relationships between art and life, both historically and in a contemporary context.
* Assist students in developing ideas about how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts contribute to cross-cultural critical theory.

This course is delivered in intensive mode.

Learning Outcomes

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

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
  1. Identify historical and geographical origins of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island art
  2. Conduct a culturally relevant appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island visual arts
  3. Develop cross-cultural awareness in the processes of interpretation of visual arts
  4. Research and access information on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island art
  5. Speak and write with cultural sensitivity and confidence on Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art

Indicative Assessment

Oral presentation and paper, 10 minute presentation and 1000 word paper (25%) [Learning Outcomes 1-5]
Research essay, 2000 words (45%) [Learning Outcomes 1-5]
Review, 1000 words (20%) [Learning Outcomes 1-5]
Tutorial participation (10%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 5]

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Workload

Five 7-hour days attendance at intensive classes (35 hours), a further 25 hours of directed preparatory reading and preparation, and 70 hours of independent private study/research. Total 130 hours.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed 36 units of ANU courses towards a degree, or with the permission of the convenor. You are not able to enrol in this course if you have successfully completed ARTH6598.

Preliminary Reading

Wally Caruana, Aboriginal Art, Thames and Hudson, 2003

Majors

Minors

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $2718
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2016 $3876
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

Summer Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
1758 11 Jan 2016 18 Jan 2016 12 Feb 2016 25 Mar 2016 In Person N/A

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