Learning Outcomes

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

1. differentiate and critique the historical, social, cultural and political contexts of diverse periods, styles, and methods in Art History;
2. closely analyse individual works of art, and interpret and communicate ideas to both specialist and non-specialist audiences using disciplinary language and conventions;
3. construct linkages between the study of Art History and the practicalities of curating; and
4. undertake independent research.

Back to the top

Requirements

This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must consist of:

24 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
ARTH6004	City Sites: studies in art and urbanity	6
ARTH6043	Modernism and Postmodernism in Art and Design: 1850-2000	6
ARTH6044	Art and Its Context: Materials Techniques Display	6
ARTH6045	Curatorship Theory and Practice	12
ARTH6050	Photography and Art	6
ARTH6052	Art of the Modern Print	6
ARTH6056	Art and Architecture of Southeast Asia: Tradition and Transformation	6
ARTH6057	The Art and Politics of Collecting	12
ARTH6059	Art and Architecture of Asia: Continuity and Change	6
ARTH6061	Postmodern Sublime	6
ARTH6080	Art and Visual Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1815	6
ARTH6081	Art of the European Courts, 1500-1815	12
ARTH6082	Art, War and Conflict	6
ARTH6093	Post-Colonial Discourses in Australian Art	6
ARTH6097	Victorian and Edwardian Art: Australia and Europe 1837-1914	6
ARTH6104	Asian Art In-Country	12
ARTH6160	Cartographies: Art Exploration and Knowledge	6
ARTH6161	Contemporary Australian Art	6
ARTH6162	Cyberculture	6
ARTH6163	Memory	6
ARTH6164	Theories of the Object	6
ARTH6165	Theories of the Image	6
ARTH6167	Issues in Contemporary Craft and Design	6
ARTH6168	Renaissance and Baroque Art	6
ARTH6169	Introducing Asian Modernisms	6
ARTH6170	Contemporary Asian Art	6
ARTH6171	Costume, Fashion and Visual Culture	6
ARTH6598	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art	6
ARTH8020	Arguing Objects	6
ARTH8021	Writing About Art and Creative Practice	6
ARTH8022	Points of View: Independent Creative Art and Media Practice	6

Back to the top