Monash University: University Handbooks: Postgraduate Handbook 2002: Units indexed by faculty
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Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Culture


General information

Course code: 0166 + Course fees: Local students -- HECS; international students -- $A13,500 p.a. + Coordinators: Leigh Astbury and Anne Marsh
The diploma offers a qualification to those engaged with visual arts and with visual culture, or to those seeking cultural studies in galleries, museums and the cultural industry, film and screen studies. Students proceed by undertaking four postgraduate coursework units valued at 12 points from the schedule below. Note that not all units are available in a given year.

Entry requirements

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 visual culture/arts may also be accepted into the program at the discretion of the head of the section and the faculty. For the work experience criteria, see the entry requirements for the masters by coursework program.

Course structure

Students are required to complete four units totalling 48 credit points from the schedule below. Students intending to undertake an MA in Visual Culture must take VAM4000 - Research essay as a pathway to the MA.

Schedule

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