Fine Arts / Arts - 4820

Program Summary

• Provide an opportunity for students to undertake rigorous and demanding studies at tertiary level from a wide range of approaches and disciplines within the visual arts.
• Provide the opportunity for students to explore the visual arts through a critical examination of the possibilities they offer and by use of available technological resources.
• Encourage students to develop increased self-motivation as developing independent and professional practitioners.
• Encourage students to realise their own intellectual and creative potential.
• Increase students' awareness of, and sensitivity to, their environment.
• Provide students with:

1. an understanding of concepts relevant to aesthetics and the visual arts;
2. understanding of various media through practice and experimentation with such media;
3. an understanding of research practice in fine arts, and a capacity to engage with research;
4. a confidence and competence in decision making, together with an appreciative and informed awareness of viewpoints in the visual arts other than their own; and
5. an understanding of the historical and theoretical underpinning of contemporary fine art practice.

• To develop informed understanding of human experience, human culture and human society
• To teach the tools and methods of understanding associated with Humanities and Social Science disciplines, and to encourage students to perceive the relationships between these disciplines
• To encourage the breadth of vision and critical thinking associated with interdisciplinary scholarship and research
• To enable students to place contemporary Australian society and culture in an historical and comparative context
• To engage critically with fundamental questions about value in both ethical and aesthetic contexts
• To develop the skills of critical, creative and imaginative thinking about society, culture and the arts
• To promote the techniques and value of reasoned and openminded discussion and debate
• To foster understanding of the experiences and world-views of other times, other places, and other cultures.

1. The skills involved in scholarly enquiry
2. The ability to engage in independent and reflective learning
3. Information Literacy - the skills to locate, evaluate and use relevant information
4. The capacity for enterprise, initiative and creativity
5. A capacity to contribute to, and work within, the international community
6. The skills required for collaborative and multidisciplinary work
7. A respect for ethical practice and social responsibility
8. The skills of effective communication
9. An in-depth engagement with the relevant disciplinary knowledge in its interdisciplinary context.

• Fine Art Studios (24 UOC)
• Fine Arts, Design or Media Arts Studios (24 UOC)
• Contextual Studies (12 UOC)

• Home Major stream (60 UOC)
• Minor stream (24 UOC)
• Arts and Social Sciences Prescribed Electives (12 UOC)

• Asian Studies
• Chinese Studies
• Advanced Chinese Studies
• Development Studies
• Criminology
• Creative Writing
• English
• Environmental Humanities
• European Studies
• Film Studies
• French Studies
• Advanced French Studies
• German Studies
• History
• Indigenous Studies
• International Relations
• Japanese Studies
• Advanced Japanese Studies
• Korean Studies
• Advanced Korean Studies
• Linguistics
• Media, Culture and Technology
• Music Studies
• Music Studies (Intensive)
• Philosophy
• Politics
• Sociology and Anthropology
• Spanish and Latin American Studies
• Theatre and Performance Studies

• Studies in Psychology (24 UOC)

1. complete 96 UOC in the Bachelor of Arts program;
2. complete the requirements for one 60 UOC home major stream
3. complete the requirements for one 24 UOC minor stream
4. complete 12 UOC Arts and Social Sciences Prescribed Electives
5. complete at least 30 UOC of Level 1 courses before enrolling in Level 2 courses
6. specify your major and minor at the time of enrolment into Level 2
7. complete at least 48 UOC, including 6 UOC at Level 1 and 6 UOC at Level 2 in your major/minor, before enrolling in Level 3 courses