Monash University Arts Undergraduate Handbook, 1997

Subjects offered in 1997

First-year level

VSA1010 Contemporary visual culture
VSA1020 Transformations of the visual

Second-year level

VSA2130 Postwar to postmodern: American and European art
VSA2150 The other side of the avant-garde: twentieth-century women's art history
VSA2250 Current architecture
VSA2270 Australian architecture
VSA2410 History and theory of photography, part 1
VSA2520 Italian Renaissance art: power, patronage and imagination

Students may also take CLS2130 (Culture and society) or WMN2170 (Introduction to contemporary feminist theory) as part of a minor or major sequence in visual arts. Where one of these subjects is included as part of a sequence in visual arts, it cannot also comprise part of a sequence in comparative literature and cultural studies or women's studies.

Third-year level

VSA3010 Making art history
VSA3130 Postwar to postmodern: American and European art
VSA3150 The other side of the avant-garde: twentieth-century women's art history
VSA3250 Current architecture
VSA3270 Australian architecture
VSA3410 History and theory of photography, part 1
VSA3520 Italian Renaissance art: power, patronage and imagination

Fourth-year level: Art history and theory

Fourth-year honours students will be required to write a minor thesis (VSA4000) worth eighteen points, and to take three seminar subjects.

Full-time honours students are advised to undertake two of these subjects in the first semester and one in the second semester. Part-time honours students normally take two subjects in the first year, and the third subject plus the thesis in the second year. Fourth-year subjects available in 1997 are as follows:

VSA4000 Minor thesis
VSA4010 Making art history
VSA4021 Beyond the museum
VSA4030 Theory of art history and criticism
VSA4084 The culture and imagery of cities

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