Postgraduate handbook 2005 - Arts

Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Culture

Course code: 0166 + Mid-year entry available + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time + On-campus (Clayton)
Coordinator: Deane Williams

Course description

This course 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.

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 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.

Course structure

Students complete 48 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 (not offered in 2005)
• VAM4021 Beyond the museum: institutions and insurrections (not offered in 2005)
• VAM4023 Visual culture internship
• VAM4030 Themes in nineteenth-century Australian art (not offered in 2005)
• VAM4050 Twentieth-century Australian modernism
• VAM4070 Australian postmodernism (not offered in 2005)
• VAM4084 The culture and imagery of cities (not offered in 2005)
• VAM4100 Issues in Australian architecture and heritage (not offered in 2005)
• VAM4200 Historical film theory and criticism
• VAM4210 Contemporary film theory and criticism
• VAM4290 Cultural theory and visuality (not offered in 2005)
• VAM4830 Exploration and immigration in the cultural imaginary (not offered in 2005)
• CRT4760 Gender, body and performance

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