Course code: 1988 + Mid-year entry available + 1 year
full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
Coordinator: John Gregory
This
course is intended to offer advanced studies in visual culture and 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 will pursue study in visual culture and criticism and 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.
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 results 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:
Students
successfully completing the masters qualifying (with a credit average or above
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'.
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