Program code: 1988 + Mid-year entry available + Clayton campus + Coordinator: John Gregory
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 of full-time study or two years of part-time study.
Students successfully completing the masters qualifying (with an average of
at least credit or second class honours division B) may apply to proceed
directly into the Master of 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.
For further information on the research programs in this discipline, see the
discipline entry under `Research programs'.
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.
Students complete 48 points at level 4 including a research unit, at least one methodology unit and electives chosen from the list below:
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