Art Theory/Soc Rsch & Policy - 4815
Program Summary
Faculty: College of Fine Arts
Contact: http://www.cofa.unsw.edu.au
Campus: College of Fine Arts Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Typical Duration: 4.5 Years
Typical UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC Per Semester: 6
Max UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC For Award: 216
International Entry Requirements: See International Entry Requirements
Information valid for students commencing 2013.
Students who commenced prior to 2013 should go to the Handbook's Previous Editions
Program Description
Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes
- A rigorous understanding of art, design and media history and theory;
- A capacity to make informed critical judgements about various forms of contemporary and historical visual culture;
- An understanding of the global dimensions of visual and artistic forms
- An understanding of art, design and media in the context of their exhibition and display
- A capacity to undertake research in art history and visual culture
- To develop students’ creative thinking and their capacity to evaluate ideas and policy problems critically.
- To provide skills in undertaking social research, including collecting and analysing data concerning issues and problems particularly in an applied policy setting.
- To stimulate informed community and academic debate, and contribute to enlightened policy-making through excellence in professional practice.
- To develop students' capacity to contribute to, and work within, the local, national and international community in an ethical way.
- To provide familiarity with the theories, bodies of knowledge and methods of social research and explanations that constitute one or more fields of study in social science.
- To provide an understanding of the interdisciplinary and trans-disciplinary nature of social science.
Program Structure
- SAHT1101 Narratives of Modernity (6 UOC)
- SAHT1102 Beyond Modernities (6 UOC)
- SAHT1211 Theories of the Image (6 UOC)
- SAHT1212 Theories of Art Hist & Culture (6 UOC)
- SAHT1221 Contexts for Art (6 UOC)
Students must complete:
- 66 UOC from approved courses in Art Theory
120UOC made up of:
- Core social research and policy courses (54UOC)
- Prescribed social research and policy electives (12UOC)
- One stream (54UOC) from the approved list
Compulsory courses (54UOC) made up of:
Level 1
- SLSP4600 Social Research and Policy Graduates in the Workplace (6 UOC)
- SLSP4601 Social Research and Policy Internship (6 UOC)
Social Science prescribed electives: 12 units of credit (2 courses). Students should choose two course from the following list:
- ARTS1210 Concepts of Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS1211 Australia's Asian Context (6 UOC)
- ARTS1750 Intro to Development Studies (6 UOC)
- ARTS1751 Poor World, Rich World (6 UOC)
- ARTS1840 Intro to Australian Politics (6 UOC)
- ARTS1871 Cultural Experience (6 UOC)
- ARTS2240 Environment and Development (6 UOC)
- ARTS2602 Islam in Asia (6 UOC)
- ARTS2751 International Development (6 UOC)
- ARTS2752 Local Politics of Development (6 UOC)
- ARTS2842 Politics of Globalisation (6 UOC)
- ARTS2845 Sex, Human Rights & Justice (6 UOC)
- ARTS2848 Language, Politics and Society (6 UOC)
- ARTS2870 Global Citizens (6 UOC)
- ARTS2871 Power and Powerlessness (6 UOC)
- ARTS2872 Living and dying (6 UOC)
- ARTS2873 People and Place (6 UOC)
- ARTS2876 Understanding the Self (6 UOC)
- ARTS2877 Technologies, Culture, Society (6 UOC)
- GLST1100 Experiencing Globalisation (6 UOC)
Streams
54 units of credit from any of the "Internal Stream" or "External Stream" (denoted with '*') listed below:
- Development Studies
- Economics (60 UOC)*
- Environmental Studies
- Globalisation Studies
- Human Resource Management (48 UOC)*
- Indigenous Studies
- International Business (48 UOC)*
- Marketing (48 UOC)*
- Media, Culture and Technology
- Politics
- International Relations
- Sociology and Anthropology
Please download the Program Schema to view the program structure.
Honours
Students undertaking the BArtTh in Dual Award mode may apply to complete an additional year (48UOC) of study for the award of Honours. For details of Honours please see 4803 Bachelor of Art Theory.
Academic Rules
Fees
Related Program(s)
4803 Art Theory
3420 Social Research and Policy
Area(s) of Specialisation