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.

• Articulate disciplinary theories and practices, and integrate them with cross-disciplinary concerns and connections;
• Articulate a broad and coherent body of knowledge about foundational aspects of society, culture and/or the arts from local, national and international perspectives;
• Undertake rigorous and engaged scholarly enquiry and analysis;
• Collaborate effectively with others;
• Communicate and debate complex ideas in a range of different contexts using a variety of suitable media;
• Exhibit initiative and self-direction;
• Critically and creatively employ disciplinary bodies of knowledge and appraise disciplinary perspectives in professional practice and/or scholarship;
• Justify a position in relation to foundational aspects of society, culture and/or the arts;
• Engage proactively with complex problems in professional practice and/or scholarship;
• Continuously acquire knowledge and skills and reflect on existing knowledge and skills for personal and career fulfilment;
• Act ethically, respectfully and responsibly.

• Fine Art Studios (24 UOC)
• Fine Arts, Design or Media Arts Studios (24 UOC)
• Art History and Theory (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

• Human Resource Management (30 UOC)
• International Business (30 UOC)
• Economics (30 UOC)
• Geography (36 UOC)
• Psychology (36 UOC)