Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Master of Visual Culture (oneyear program)

Course code: 3094 + Mid-year entry available + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
Coordinators: Leigh Astbury and Anne Marsh

Course description

This coursework degree is designed to offer advanced studies in visual culture, allowing students to specialise in galleries and the cultural industry, film and screen studies, Australian art, theories of visual cultures, and architectural studies. Students normally develop a research initiative, undertaking a research essay to the value of 12 points. The opportunity of work experience is provided through the internship in visual culture, which is available across a broad range of cultural institutions.

Entry requirements

There are four paths into the program. Candidates must have completed one of the following:
(a) A BA (Hons) degree in visual arts/culture or a related discipline with an overall grade of second class honours division B or higher.
(b) A masters qualifying by coursework in visual arts/culture or a related discipline with an overall grading at credit level or higher.
(c) A Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Culture with an overall grading at credit level or higher, and a statement listing relevant publications, if any, senior level community service in a visual arts area and other relevant qualifications.
(d) A bachelors degree in a relevant discipline with credit grades or higher in the third part of the major or in the last year of the degree, plus a minimum of three years of experience at a senior level directly relevant to the visual arts, to visual culture, or to an area of media production. Evidence for this must accompany a candidate's application for entry. In addition, candidates must supply (a) two references, commenting on the nature and extent of the experience; (b) a full CV; and (c) a statement of up to 1000 words on the applicant's career objectives and reasons for applying for entry.

Course structure

Students complete 48 points, comprised of four units chosen from the list below (VAM5000 is compulsory for students without an honours degree or demonstrable research experience at a postgraduate level):

• VAM5000 Research essay in visual culture
• VAM5010 Visual culture and its theories
• VAM5021 Beyond the museum: institutions and insurrections (not offered in 2005)
• VAM5023 Visual culture internship
• VAM5030 Themes in nineteenth-century Australian modernism (not offered in 2005)
• VAM5050 Twentieth-century Australian modernism
• VAM5070 Australian postmodernism (not offered in 2005)
• VAM5084 The culture and imagery of cities (not offered in 2005)
• VAM5100 Issues in Australian architecture and heritage (not offered in 2005)
• VAM5200 Historical film theory and criticism
• VAM5210 Contemporary film theory and criticism
• VAM5830 Exploration and immigration in the cultural imaginary (not offered in 2005)
• CRT5760 Gender, body and performance

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