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FNA4001

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

18 September 2017 24 April 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Art, Design and Architecture

Organisational Unit

Department of Fine Art

Coordinator(s)

Dr Fiona Macdonald

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Studio at honours level is research-oriented and non-prescriptive in terms of content. Students produce a proposal at the beginning of the semester but are free to carry out their work with any number of deviations from their original plans. The intentions of students and the results of their work are debated in group discussions and critical sessions.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, students will:

  1. be keen to perfect their practice in Fine Art with excellence in technique and to perceive a relationship between technical excellence and the visionary aspirations of their discipline
  2. be able to pursue an area of studio practice with a strong sense of direction and commitment and an equally strong curiosity for the possibility of redirecting their practice
  3. feel some confidence defending their chosen direction in studio practice against informed challenge and criticism
  4. be resolved to find the 'logical' extension of their practice, whether through higher degrees of technical refinement or refusal of established aesthetic criteria or critical regimes
  5. seek to extend their practice with reference to the history of the particular genre in Fine Art which is their specialisation, empowering them not only with the knowledge of authoritative precedents but the practical advantage of technical and iconographic cues
  6. be keen to relate critically their chosen direction in Fine Art to the terms of contemporary discourse
  7. find an appropriate balance between intuitive processes underlying their practice and critical reason or analytical thought.

Assessment

Folio: 100%

Workload requirements

24 hours (lecture, tutorial, individual supervision) per week

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Fiona Macdonald

Prerequisites

Admission to honours program