• Offered by School of Art and Design
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Course subject Design Art
  • Areas of interest Design Arts
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Mode of delivery Online or In Person

This course provides students with training in research principles and methods especially as they relate to practice-led research. The course covers research writing modes and methods, studio investigative processes and methodologies, and critical thinking. Students will 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 be able 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.
  6. Explain and provide a rationale for the practice-led research project.

Indicative Assessment

Studio Investigations (70%) Learning Outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4

Expanded Proposal, 1500 words (30%) Learning Outcomes 5, 6

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Workload

260 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 36 hours of lectures and seminars, and 12 hours of workshop based tutorials; and b) 212 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.

Requisite and Incompatibility

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

Assumed Knowledge

Completion of a cognate major

Fees

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

Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you 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). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees

Student Contribution Band:
12
Unit value:
12 units

If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

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Units EFTSL
12.00 0.25000
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2021 $6360
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2021 $9780
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

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