Master of Visual Culture

Course code: 3094 + Course abbreviation: MVisCul + Total credit points required: 48 + 1 year full-time, 2 years part-time

Study mode and course location

On-campus (Clayton)

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.

Course structure

Students complete 48 points, comprised of four units chosen from the list below:

VAM5000 Research essay in visual culture*
VAM5010 Visual culture and its theories
VAM5021 Beyond the museum: institutions and insurrections
VAM5023 Visual culture internship
VAM5030 Themes in nineteenth-century Australian modernism
VAM5050 Twentieth-century Australian modernism
VAM5070 Australian postmodernism
VAM5084 The culture and imagery of cities
VAM5100 Issues in Australian architecture and heritage
VAM5200 Historical film theory and criticism
VAM5210 Contemporary film theory and criticism
VAM5830 Exploration and immigration in the cultural imaginary
CRT5760 Gender, body and performance

* VAM5000 is compulsory for students without an honours degree or demonstrable research experience at a postgraduate level.

Minimum pass grade

To graduate with the Masters, students must gain a credit (60 C) or above in core units and a minimum credit average overall.

Exit points

There are no alternative exit points from this course.

Course coordinator

Leigh Astbury

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