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Postgraduate handbook 2004
Arts
Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Culture
Course code: 0166 + Mid-year entry available + Clayton +
Coordinator: Deane Williams
The diploma offers a qualification to those engaged with visual
art and with visual culture, or to those seeking cultural studies in galleries,
museums and the cultural industry, film and screen studies.
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
graduate 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.
Students complete 48 credit points comprised of four units chosen
from the list below.
- VAM4000 Research essay in visual culture
- VAM4010 Visual culture and its theories
- VAM4020 Theory of art history and criticism
- VAM4021 Beyond the museum: institutions and insurrections
- VAM4023 Visual culture internship
- VAM4030 Themes in nineteenth-century Australian art
- VAM4050 Twentieth-century Australian modernism
- VAM4070 Australian postmodernism
- VAM4084 The culture and imagery of cities
- VAM4100 Issues in Australian architecture and heritage
- VAM4200 Historical film theory and criticism
- VAM4210 Contemporary film theory and criticism
- VAM4290 Cultural theory and visuality
- VAM4830 Exploration and immigration in the cultural imaginary
- CRT4650 Seeing/reading text
- CRT4760 Gender, body and performance
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