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Visual Arts and Graphic Design

UAC Code: 754607

This fully prescribed major of 144 credit points is designed for those who have strong interests in both visual arts practice and in graphic design. It allows visual artists who wish to broaden their career options to develop skills which have commercial application. The graphic design emphasis in this major is towards design for print media, using both manual and digital technologies. Studio subjects are supported by design theory and visual arts theory subjects.

Specific Entry Requirements

Refer to the specific entry requirements for Visual Arts and also for Graphic Design.

Major Study Program

Subjects

 

Session

Credit Points

100-Level

     

VISA101

Visual Investigations A

Autumn

6

VISA103

Introduction to Visual Arts Studio A

Autumn

6

VISA121

Introduction to Critical Theory in Art and Design

Autumn

6

DESN101

Introduction to Graphic Design

Autumn

6

VISA102

Visual Investigations B

Spring

6

VISA104

Introduction to Visual Arts Studio B

Spring

6

DESN102

Design for Visual Communication

Spring

6

VISA122

Ideas in Practice: Perspectives on Modernism

Spring

6

200-Level

     

VISA203

Visual Arts Studio C

Autumn

6

VISA221

Ideas in Practice: Visual Arts and Design in Australia

Autumn

6

DESN201

Typography, Type Design and Editorial Illustration

Autumn

6

VISA201

Visual Investigations C

Autumn

6

or

     

DESN211

Introduction to Web Design

Autumn

6

VISA204

Visual Arts Studio D

Spring

6

VISA222

The Artist in Contemporary Culture

Spring

6

DESN202

Publication Design: For Printed Media

Spring

6

DESN222

Design Theory

Spring

6

300-Level

     

VISA303

Advanced Visual Arts Studio E

Autumn

6

VISA321

Introduction to Indigenous Art and Visual Culture

Autumn

6

DESN301

Commercial Graphic Design Practice A

Autumn

6

DESN321

New Media Theory

Autumn

6

VISA304

Advanced Visual Arts Studio F

Spring

6

VISA322

Representation and Space in the Post Colonial World

Spring

6

Plus one of:

DESN302

Commercial Graphic Design Practice B

Spring

6

DESN312

Advanced Design Project

Spring

6

Plus one of:

VISA302

Visual Investigations F

Spring

6

VISA350

Curatorial Practice

Spring

6

DESN390

Experimental Digital Art

Spring

6

 
   

Last reviewed: 7 November, 2007 

 
   
 
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