units

VAM4010

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

18 September 2017 26 April 2024
Monash University

Postgraduate - Unit

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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LevelPostgraduate
FacultyFaculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Organisational UnitDepartment of Fine Art
OfferedNot offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)Dr Daniel Palmer

Synopsis

This seminar unit is designed to equip graduate students with critical and theoretical skills appropriate to the study of art history and visual culture at an advanced level. Topics to be considered will include theories of the image, representation and meaning, the operation of ideology, especially in relation to race and gender, social theories (including Marxist and neo-Marxist accounts), applications of psychoanalysis to the visual field, postmodernism and its critiques, cyberculture, and recent theorisations of visual culture.

Assessment

Essay (2500 words): 25%
Exercise (2500 words): 25%
Essay (4000 words): 50%

Workload requirements

2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Daniel Palmer