Course Content
The Bachelor of Visual Arts requires completion of 144 units, of which:
A maximum of 60 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses
A minimum of 84 units must come from completion of 2000- and 3000- level courses
The 144 units must consist of:
24 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:
- ARTH1006 Art and Design Histories: Form and Space
- ARTH1007 Art and Design Histories: Making and Meaning
- ARTV3035 Creative Research Practice: Extending and Consolidating an Independent Project
6 units from completion of the foundation course:
- ARTV1034 Foundations of Contemporary Arts Practices
12 units from completion of art history and theory courses from the following list:
- ARTH2043 After the Bauhaus: Design from the Interwar Period to the Age of Climate Crisis
- ARTH2044 Art and Its Context: Materials, Techniques, Display
- ARTH2045 Curatorship History and Evolution
- ARTH2050 Photography and Art
- ARTH2052 Art of the Multiple
- ARTH2056 Art and Architecture of Southeast Asia: Tradition and Transformation
- ARTH2059 Art of Asia: Histories and Traditions
- ARTH2061 The Postmodern and the Contemporary: World art, 1970 to the present
- ARTH2080 Art and Visual Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1815
- ARTH2081 Art of the European Courts, 1500-1815
- ARTH2082 Art, War and Conflict
- ARTH2097 Art of the Long Nineteenth Century
- ARTH2098 Australian First Nations Art and Culture
- ARTH2104 Asian Art In-Country
- ARTH2162 Art in the Digital Age
- ARTH2166 Individual Research Unit
- ARTH2167 Issues in Contemporary Craft and Design
- ARTH2168 Renaissance and Baroque Art
- ARTH2169 Introducing Asian Modernisms
- ARTH2170 Contemporary Asian Art
- ARTH2171 Australian Art: The Modern Period
- ARTH2173 Art and the Moving Image
- ARTH2174 Art, Medicine, Gender from the Renaissance until Today
- ARTH2175 Across the Pacific: Australian Interactions with American Art and Art Worlds
- ARTH2176 Cross Currents in Australian First Nations and Non-Indigenous Art and Culture
- ARTH3004 City Sites: studies in art, design and urbanity
12 units from completion of introductory studio courses from the following list:
- ARTV1020 Figure and Life
- ARTV1021 Image and Object
- ARTV1033 Hold Everything: Studio Foundation
- ARTV1101 Ceramics: Introduction to Clay Forming and Technology
- ARTV1102 Ceramics: Throwing and Surface Decoration
- ARTV1201 Furniture: Shape/Structure
- ARTV1202 Furniture: Elevate/Surface
- ARTV1301 Glass Hot Forming Introduction: Fundamentals for Contemporary Practice
- ARTV1302 Glass Kiln Forming Introduction: Fundamentals for Contemporary Practice
- ARTV1403 Jewellery and Object: Introduction to Precise Miniature Construction
- ARTV1404 Jewellery and Object: Maker, Wearer, Viewer, User
- ARTV1501 Painting: Introducing Painting
- ARTV1502 Painting: Composition and Space
- ARTV1601 Hyperanalogue: the alchemy of darkroom photography
- ARTV1610 PhotoVideo: Interrogating the Camera
- ARTV1611 Expanded Studio Practice: Constructing Worlds
- ARTV1612 Video Art: Editing and Montage
- ARTV1613 Foundations of Animation
- ARTV1614 Post-Digital Photography: bending the image
- ARTV1703 Intaglio print: Etching & monoprinting
- ARTV1704 Drawing into Print: Screen Printing and Stencils
- ARTV1705 Relief print: Image and text
- ARTV1803 Supports: Conceptual and Material
- ARTV1804 Place, Time and Wood
- ARTV1901 Textiles: Plants and Place
- ARTV1902 Repeat: Pattern and Disintegration - Textile, Print, Painting
- DESA1021 Precise Drawing and Model Making
- DESN1002 Visual Communication: Design and Production
- DESN1003 Contemporary Design in Context
18 units from completion of intermediate/advanced studio courses from the following list:
- ARTV2027 Professional Practice: Economies and Ecologies in the Australian Cultural Sector
- ARTV2038 Workshop Atelier
- ARTV2057 Hands On: Material Language
- ARTV2059 Immersive Media
- ARTV2060 Contexts of Making: Globalisation and Change
- ARTV2061 Contexts of Making: Materiality and Situation
- ARTV2117 Ceramics: Glaze and Colour Development
- ARTV2119 Ceramics: Experimental Methods and Meanings
- ARTV2120 Ceramics: Designing for the Table and Home
- ARTV2124 Ceramics: Surface, Form and Connectivity
- ARTV2125 Ceramics: Moulding, Casting and Digital Technologies
- ARTV2207 Furniture: Support/Body
- ARTV2208 Furniture: Contain/Display
- ARTV2209 Furniture: Collect/Treasure
- ARTV2313 Glass Kiln Casting for Contemporary Practice
- ARTV2314 Glass Blowing for Contemporary Practice: Materiality and Form
- ARTV2315 Glass Kiln Forming for Contemporary Practice
- ARTV2316 Glass Blowing for Contemporary Practice: Utility and Narrative
- ARTV2401 Jewellery and Object: Making with Machines
- ARTV2402 Jewellery and Object: Utility as Context
- ARTV2410 Jewellery and Object: Experimenting with Process
- ARTV2506 Painting: Approaches to Abstraction
- ARTV2507 Painting: Painting in the Photo Digital Age
- ARTV2508 Painting: Taking Your Own Direction
- ARTV2509 Painting: Approaches to Composition and Colour
- ARTV2605 The Photographic Document: Materiality and Form
- ARTV2607 Photomedia: Large Format Photography
- ARTV2608 Photomedia: Experimental Processes
- ARTV2609 Animation and Video: Visual Storytelling
- ARTV2610 Animation and Video: Character Development
- ARTV2613 Animation and Video: Landscape and Environment
- ARTV2614 Animation and Video: Non-linear Forms
- ARTV2706 Printmedia and Drawing: Drawing Beyond the Line
- ARTV2707 Printmedia and Drawing: Extended Etching and Relief Printing
- ARTV2708 Printmedia and Drawing: Construct Meaning with Drawing
- ARTV2715 Printmedia and Drawing: Typography
- ARTV2717 Printmedia and Drawing: The Book as Art
- ARTV2723 Printmedia and Drawing: Extended Screen Printing
- ARTV2727 Printmedia and Drawing: Lithography
- ARTV2801 Socially Engaged Art Practice: Authorship, Dialogue and Community
- ARTV2802 Politics of Memory: Video Installation, Sculpture, Documentary and Monuments
- ARTV2810 Politics of Bodies: Sculpture, Figure Modelling, Performance and Choreography
- ARTV2820 Politics of Spaces: Installation, Sculpture and Spatial Practice
- ARTV2821 Posthuman Sculpture Practice with Active Materials: Bronze Casting, 3D Modelling and Bio Art
- ARTV2830 Automation and Autonomy: Process, Accident, Sculpture
- ARTV2907 Subverting Stitch
- ARTV2908 Woven Worlds
- ARTV2911 Spatial/Temporal Methods
- ARTV2921 Environment Studio: Field based Research and Studio Practice in Visual Arts
- ARTV3031 Making Research for a Studio Practice in the Visual Arts
- ARTV3032 Demonstrating research methods for a studio practice in the visual arts
- ARTV3507 Open to Influence: Studio Research
- ARTV3508 Painting: Materiality and Meaning
- ARTV3510 Painting: Critical Analysis and Reflection in the Studio
12 units from completion of courses listed in either the ‘introductory studio courses’ list or the ‘intermediate/advanced studio courses’ list above.
6 units from completion of an advanced studio course from the following list:
- ARTV3028 Developing a Contemporary Craft Practice
- ARTV3033 Creative Research Practice: Developing an Independent Work Proposal
6 units from completion of an engagement course from the following list:
- ARTV2027 Professional Practice: Economies and Ecologies in the Australian Cultural Sector
- ARTV2909 The Public Project: engagement strategies for artists, designers, institutions and communities
- ARTV2921 Environment Studio: Field based Research and Studio Practice in Visual Arts
- ARTV3031 Making Research for a Studio Practice in the Visual Arts
- ARTV3032 Demonstrating Research Methods for a Studio Practice in Art and Design
48 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU
*School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
*Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.
Minors
Design
This minor requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
A maximum of 12 units from the completion of the following list:
- DESA1021 Precise Drawing and Model Making (6 units)
- DESN1002 Visual Communication: Design and Production (6 units)
- DESN1003 Contemporary Design In Context (6 units)
- DESN1004 The Past as Prototype: History, Ethics and Concepts for Design in the Twenty-First Century (6 units)
12 - 24 units from completion of courses from the following list:
- DESN2001 Digital Form and Fabrication (6 units)
- DESN2002 Foundations of Creative Code (6 units)
- DESN2003 Creative Data Visualisation: Representing Data in Visual and Material Form (6 units)
- DESN2004 Dynamic Design and Generative Systems (6 units)
- DESN2006 Front-End Web: Crafting Online Experience (6 units)
- DESN2007 Design Fiction: Speculative and Critical Design (6 units)
- DESN2008 Design Thinking: Human-Centred Design Methodologies (6 units)
- DESN2009 Typography in Context: Digital Typographic Design (6 units)
- DESN2010 Making Creative and Critical Technologies: Physical Computing for Art and Design (6 units)
- DESN2012 The Ethics of Making: Design for Reparative Practices (6 units)
Elective units
48 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU
Once you have met the program requirements of your degree, you may have enough electives to complete an additional elective major, minor or specialisation.
