• Offered by School of Art and Design
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Classification Advanced
  • Course subject Visual Arts
  • Areas of interest Visual Arts, Creative Arts

This course involves developing useful forms of critical analysis, reflection and discussion based around studio practice, including group studio crits, student to student interviews, silent reviews, reading and discussion groups and critical engagement with issues such as professional presentation of work, installation and exhibition design.

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. Plan, manage and mount a sustained studio project.
  2. Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the terminology, principles and critical issues of contemporary painting.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to critically and constructively reflect on their studio practice and its relationship to the broader field of contemporary visual arts practice.
  4. Apply analytical principles to the discussion of paintings formally, materially and conceptually and how these principles can be used to further develop studio practice.

Indicative Assessment

Two seminar presentations, 15 minutes each (2 x 40%) Learning Outcomes 2-4

Research, visual diary with a 1000 word critical reflection (20%) Learning Outcomes 1-4

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Workload

130 hours of total student learning time made up from:

a) 48 hours of contact comprising lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice (a total of 4 hours contact per teaching week)

b) 82 hours of independent studio practice

Requisite and Incompatibility

You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed ARTV3510.

Assumed Knowledge

Students must have developed an independent study proposal for their studio practice and have an ongoing body of work for exhibition and review during this course.

Specialisations

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
2018 $2820
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2018 $4320
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
4519 24 Feb 2020 02 Mar 2020 08 May 2020 05 Jun 2020 In Person N/A

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