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

This course provides students with training in research principles and methods as they relate to practice-led research. The course covers studio investigative processes and methodologies, analytical and critical thinking. Students experiment with skills relevant to individual research projects.

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. devise, plan and execute a body of studio investigations;
  2. select and combine materials and processes skilfully to give visual form to ideas;
  3. develop a studio-based methodology relevant for a specified topic;
  4. apply progressive research questions to studio investigations;
  5. identify and describe relevant historical and contemporary practices and relate them to the project's concerns by integrating studio and contextual investigation/research; and
  6. explain and provide a rationale for the practice-led research project.

Indicative Assessment

Studio Investigations - body of work and experiments (80%) Learning Outcomes 1-6
 
Research Presentation (assessed by two School of Art & Design staff members and recorded) (20%) Learning Outcomes 3-6
 

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Workload

260 hours of total student learning time made up from:
a) 35 hours of contact over 12 weeks: seminars, lectures, reading groups and/or critiques, including a minimum of 3 hours of direct contact with the supervisor. It is the joint responsibility of the student and supervisor to arrange times for face-to-face contact. The supervisor is normally only available for email or face-to-face consultation during teaching weeks of each semester; and
b) 225 hours of independent studio and allied investigations.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must be enrolled in the Bachelor of Design (Honours) (HDESN).

Assumed Knowledge

Students must demonstrate they have the base knowledge/skills required to carry out their proposed project.

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:
12 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
12.00 0.25000
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2019 $6000
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2019 $9120
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.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
4388 22 Feb 2021 01 Mar 2021 31 Mar 2021 28 May 2021 In Person N/A
4703 22 Feb 2021 01 Mar 2021 31 Mar 2021 28 May 2021 In Person N/A

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