Program
code: 1988 + Program fees: Local students -- HECS; international students
-- $A13,500 pa + Coordinator: Conrad Hamann
This program is intended to offer advanced studies in visual culture. The
program provides students with the opportunity for work in gallery and museum
studies, Australian art and film studies. It is addressed to students returning
to study after either professional work or a period away from the university
who are intending to pursue research in visual culture or who wish to bring
themselves up to date with recent developments in the discipline, and who wish
to develop a major research initiative in specialised areas. Students
undertaking the program will pursue study in visual culture and criticism. They
will undertake detailed elective study by coursework in an area of visual
culture (including film and gallery studies) and pursue skills in research
technique, writing and argument. The research component will introduce these
skills to students at a larger scale and is intended to provide a bridge
between their previous scale of essay work and the requirements of a large
research project at graduate level. The masters qualifying program is one
year's study full-time and two years' study part-time.
There
are three paths of entry into the masters qualifying with research component.
Candidates must have obtained one of the following:
(a) A Bachelor of Arts pass degree incorporating a major sequence in visual
arts, film studies, or visual culture, or its equivalent to the approval of the
head of the section, with credit gradings in units completed for this major
sequence at third-year level, if completed before or during 1996. If completed
during 1997, the section will normally expect results of credit level or above
at third year. In addition, the section will consider special admission for
those who possess a bachelors degree in another discipline or who have
completed a single major outside of the visual arts or visual culture.
(b) A degree in practical areas of art, architecture, photography or film and
video training that includes a significant sequence, normally three years with
at least credits in one or more of art, architectural, film or television
theory, art or architectural history and criticism, or in media studies with an
emphasis on theory training. Students holding these qualifications should have
significant experience in the scholarship and curating of art galleries or of
museums with a significant art or media involvement.
(c) A degree in another discipline with credit grades in the third year of a
major sequence, coupled with significant experience in research, criticism,
history, curating or administration of the visual arts.
Note that students who have completed relevant units at level four which
have not been used to take out a degree or an award of any kind with grades of
credit or above in visual arts or visual culture or a cognate discipline may
apply for a maximum of 50 per cent credit at the time of their application for
entry into the program. Applications will be considered by both the section and
the faculty.
The program requires completion of components totalling 48 points. Units taken at level four as part of a postgraduate sequence in visual culture are normally weighted at 12 points each.
three
coursework units totalling 36 points to be:
(a) at least one methodology unit chosen from the following:
(b) at least one unit chosen from the following:
One
12-point unit may be taken in a related discipline other than visual arts or
visual culture, with the approval of the heads of sections of the related
discipline and visual culture.
Students successfully completing the masters qualifying (at an average of at
least credit or second class honours division B) may apply to proceed directly
into the MA in Visual Culture by coursework. Successful completion of the
masters qualifying program with a research component is also a means of entry
to the MA by research, or to the PhD, if a student's consistent grading for the
masters qualifying is the equivalent of a distinction or a second class honours
degree, division A, including a grade of distinction or above for the research
component.
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