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Art history engages historically and critically with the images that people and societies create. It includes research on painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, digital and electronic representation, and analyses these visual media from different methodological positions. It considers the role of the artist in relation to society and ideology and analyses the scopic territories of modernity. Research studies range from the medieval to the post-modern, with specialised graduate programs in Australian art and museum studies. The invention of the movie camera in the late 19th century radically altered the perception of the world, bringing it closer and making it smaller. Film and television studies engage with the history and critical analysis of the moving image. Film form, narrative structure, national cinemas and film institutions, as well as alternative documentary and Hollywood cinema, are studied in relation to the psychological experience of screen media, history and ideology. Research in art history/film and television studies has become increasingly multi-disciplinary in the last 40 years. Also see entries under 'Visual culture', 'Comparative literature', and 'Cultural studies and critical theory'.
Course
code: 0166 · Course fees: Local students - HECS; international students -
$A12,000 · Coordinator: Leigh Astbury
The diploma offers a qualification to those engaged with visual art and with
visual culture, or to those seeking cultural studies in art history, theory and
film. Students proceed by undertaking four postgraduate coursework subjects
valued at 12 points from the schedule below. The diploma courses each involve
one year of full-time study or two years of part-time study. Note that not all
subjects are available in a given year.
There are three paths of entry to the postgraduate diploma program: (i) a BA with a major in visual arts or in visual culture; (ii) a faculty certificate with credits as the average grade; (iii) applicants who have completed a bachelors degree with (a) a major in other related disciplines or (b) have gained significant work experience in the area of the visual arts may also be accepted into the program at the discretion of the head of department and the faculty. For the work experience criteria, see the entry requirements for the masters by coursework programs in Australian art or in gallery and museum studies.
Students are required to complete four subjects totalling 48 credit points from the schedule below.
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