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Introduction to Cultural Practices 1
Enrolment code: FFA102
Offered: Ltn, sem 1
Unit description: Introduces students to architecture, the visual and
performing arts through appreciation, criticism and related cultural, historical
and theoretical issues. The unit is structured around current exhibitions and
performances, and will involve critical writing, analysis and interpretation.
Emphasis is placed on an analytical approach to contemporary practice.
Staff: Dr D Malor (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, attendance at weekly 1 hr Art Forum
Mutual excl: FFA100 Intro to Visual Studies 1, FPC100 The Arts & Cultural
Context
Assess: Tutorial contribution (10%), tutorial presentation (20%), 2x500-word
reviews (40%), 1,000-word written assignment (30%)
Introduction to Cultural Practices 2
Enrolment code: FFA103
Offered: Ltn, sem 2
Unit description: Develops critical skills in relation to architecture, the visual
and performing arts and as in FFA102 Contemporary Cultural Practice 1 using
exhibitions and performances to explore issues of critical theory. A lecture
program introduces students to some of the key concepts and styles in the arts
from the perspective of Western culture.
Staff: Dr D Malor (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prereq: FFA102
Assess: excursion performance (20%), tutorial presentation (20%), 500-word
review (20%), 1,500-word written assignment (40%)
A Brief History of 20th-Century Art
Enrolment code: FFA202/302
Offered: Ltn, sem 1
Unit description: Addresses the history of European visual art from the early
20th century to the 1990s. The art is related to the social and political history of
the time, and its achievements re-assessed from the point of view of
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contemporary art theory. Major artists and movements are discussed. By the
end of this unit, students should have been introduced to the concepts of
modernism and postmodernism in art, and understand their historical, cultural
and philosophical relevance.
Staff: Dr D Malor
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr art forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA100 or FFA101
Mutual excl: FFA200, FFA201, HAC280/380
Assess: 2,500-word essay (50%), tutorial (30%), slide test (20%)
Majors: Cultural Studies
Courses: F3E R3A
Professional Practice
Enrolment code: FFA233/333
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Equips artists with essential skills for their professional
development within the arts industry. Issues addressed include professional
opportunities available to studio artists and other arts workers, the gallery
system, grants and loans, visual record keeping and the presentation of a
professional portfolio. This unit prepares students for a research project in
professional practice which can be carried out in Research
Seminar (FFA300/301).
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: including 8x2-hr lecture/workshops, 1-day seminar (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA100 or 101
Assess: attendance (20%), attendance at seminar and 1,500-word seminar report
(30%), portfolio (50%)
Courses: F3E F3J
Gallery Studies
Enrolment code: FFA234/334
Offered: Ltn, w-sch
Unit description: Career options in curating, exhibition management and
gallery administration are explored. The unit will teach the full range of
theoretical and practical skills required by curators in the development of
exhibition proposals for traditional gallery spaces and alternative ways to
present art and art events. Practical weekend sessions assist students to gain
gallery installation experience. This unit offers significant input from
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professionals in the field. Students are expected to be self-motivated and work
towards developing a formal exhibition proposal to a standard required to
secure funding.
Staff: Ms J Deeth
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 8-day intensive workshop, and weekend session
Prereq: FFA100 or 101
Assess: formal assignment (70%), participation in practical sessions (30%)
Courses: F3E F3J
Wilderness and Natural Environment
Enrolment code: FFA235/335
Offered: Ltn, sem 1
Special note: enrolment restrictions apply;
Unit description: Introduces the history of ideas associated with the
perception and representation of natural environment. Emphasis is placed on
an examination of contemporary meanings and methods of articulating the
concept of wilderness and their relationship to the cultural colonisation of
Tasmania. This unit has a substantial visual and/or written component which
is developed from the 3-day field trip to the Walls of Jerusalem and Dixons
Kingdom. The outcomes of this component will be presented in
exhibition/display and seminar formats in the University Gallery.
Staff: Prof VF McGrath (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: lecture, tutorial, fieldwork
Prereq: (S3T: 25% from Schedule B)
Mutual excl: HAC284/384
Assess: minor project (assessed at conclusion of field trip) (20%), major
fieldwork component (assessed on final day of exhibition) (80%)
Required texts, etc:
a list of equipment, provisions and other materials will be provided at the
commencement of the unit
Majors: Cultural Studies, Natural Environment and Wilderness Studies
Courses: F3E F3J R3A S3T +OC
The Body in Art
Enrolment code: FFA240/340
Offered: Ltn, sem 2
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Unit description: Analyses a major theme in Western art – the depiction of the
body. Art from a variety of periods and artists is discussed from the point of
view of contemporary theories of the body. Discussion include issues of
representation, gender and sexuality.
Staff: Dr D Malor
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr art forum, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA100 or 101
Mutual excl: HAC285/385
Assess: 2,500-word essay (50%), tutorial (30%), slide test (20%)
Majors: Cultural Studies
Courses: F3E R3A
Landscape and Issues of Postcolonialism in
Australian Art
Enrolment code: FFA241/341
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Issues of contemporary cultural theory are applied to the
analysis of Australian art. By the end of this unit students will have been
introduced to theories of postcolonialism, to a general history of Australian art
and the ways in which it is being re-assessed in the move towards Australia
becoming a republic, and how developments in Australian art can be
understood in regard to the cultural development of the Asia/Pacific region.
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA100 or 101
Mutual excl: HAC286/386
Assess: 2,500-word essay (50%), tutorial (30%), slide test (20%)
Majors: Cultural Studies
Courses: F3E R3A
The Construction of Genius
Enrolment code: FFA250/350
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Considers the economic, philosophical, scientific and
religious conditions that saw the shift from the anonymous artisan to the
individual inspired genius. The unit includes the work of Giotto, Brunelleschi,
Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare and other artists of the Renaissance. Topics
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include professionalisation, the invention of perspective, the development of
new forms, the growth of drama and visual arts practices that examined
individual character, and the origins of Modern English. The unit also examines
changing historical attitudes to the concept/phenomenon of genius including
conflicting contemporary evaluations of the concept and changing attitudes
towards the product of historical geniuses.
Staff: Dr D Malor (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar and others
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103
Assess: 2x500-word short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%),
2,000-word essay (50%)
Romance and Realism
Enrolment code: FFA251/351
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: The successes and failures of the period of intellectual
ferment known as the Enlightenment resulted in both Romanticism and
Realism, sometimes in conflict and sometimes in harmony. This unit provides a
critique of the late 18th and 19th centuries, focusing on the work of artists and
writers such as Turner, Constable, Blake, Robertson, Ibsen, Strindberg and
Wilde, and includes the cult of the 19th-century Romantic outsider, the
development of realism and the aesthetic movement, and the role of Romantic
traditions in the project of colonisation.
Staff: Dr D Malor (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar and others
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103
Assess: 2 x 500-word short written exercises, tutorial presentation, 2,000-word
essay
The Avant-Garde and the Necessity of the New
Enrolment code: FFA252/352
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: Analyses the search for the essence of art and the
investigation of basic form which became dominant issues in the first half of the
20th century. The unit covers manifestations of these issues in general terms
across the arts and as they are revealed in the particular art forms of visual art
and theatre. It focuses on the work of Kandinsky, Malevich, Mondrian, Brecht,
Pirandello and Beckett. The unit also considers the postmodernist and
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poststructuralist critiques of modernism undertaken in the latter part of the
century.
Staff: Dr D Malor (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar and others
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103
Assess: short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%), essay (50%)
The Arts in Revolt
Enrolment code: FFA254/354
Offered: Not offered in 2001
Unit description: The tendency for the arts to question the status quo and
shock the general populace out of their complacency was a recurring theme of
art throughout the 20th century. This unit focuses on the visual and performing
arts as manifested in Dada, Surrealism and contemporary performance art
operating from a socially critical agenda. In response to new media traditional
arts practice has been forced to examine and emphasise the concept of ‘liveness’
and ‘truth’. At the same time boundaries between high art and popular arts
have been questioned and in this unit examples of popular culture are
examined. The unit therefore also considers critical practices of postmodernism,
poststructuralism and postcolonialism.
Staff: Dr D Malor (Coordinator), Mr M Edgar and others
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103
Assess: 2x500-word short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%),
2,000-word essay (50%)
Research Seminar
Enrolment code: FFA300/301
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&2
Special note: FFA300 is a full-year unit weighted at 25%; FFA301 a
one-semester unit weighted at 12.5%, available in sem 1 or sem 2.
Unit description: Is a research-based unit by individual supervision. Students
are required to develop a research plan for a topic relevant to arts practice.
Staff: Dr D Malor
Unit weight: 25%/12.5%
Teaching: individual supervision
Prereq: one of FFA200, FFA201, FFA202, FFA233, FFA234, FFA240 or FFA241
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Assess: full year: 3,000-word essay + 3,500-word essay, seminar presentation;
sem: 3,500-word essay, seminar presentation
Courses: F3E
Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours
Enrolment code: FFA400/401
Full time/Part time
Offered: Hbt, sem 1&2
Special note: full-time students enrol in FFA400 (100%); part-time students in
FFA401 (50%)
Unit description: The program is an in-depth, though not necessarily
media-specific, study of one of the following areas: Art Theory, Ceramics,
Drawing, Painting, Printmedia or Sculpture. The course allows students to
concentrate on developing a body of work, usually of a speculative and
individual nature, and emphasises a strong sense of independent enquiry. The
examination will grow from the research proposal which in turn will feed into
the main written paper. The proposal and paper will evolve through
consultation with studio and theory staff. The main theory requirement is a
paper of a maximum 3,000 words, in which the candidate will discuss a
theoretical issue relating directly to his or her research project. Candidates
prepare a series of four short papers on specific topics during the year and these
form the basis of the final paper. Candidates engaged in a theory-only honours
program complete two papers: one focuses on the context of the work; the
other, developed in consultation with the candidate’s supervisor, may consider
a theoretical issue associated with the development of the thesis or may include
gallery/curatorial components. These two papers will be a maximum 5,000
words each and the thesis a maximum 15,000 words. A short course of lectures
and workshops is presented at a weekly Honours Seminar in semester 1. This
series of lectures is devoted to a study of contemporary theory, methodology
and criticism of visual arts and design. Candidates can then expect to present
their ideas to a workshop group during the latter part of the semester, in a
relatively informal and provisional manner. In semester 2 short summaries of
papers will be formally presented in day-long seminars. As well as Honours
Seminars, the program is supported by a weekly meeting with the Honours
Coordinator to discuss research strategies and provide a forum for invited
practitioners who generate discussion and debate relating to art, craft, design
and theory. At the end of the year, shortly before examination, a short
(100-word) summary explanation of the research outcomes in relation to the
course proposal will be required. A panel of academic staff appointed by the
Head of School, together with a visiting expert, examines the candidate’s
presentation of visual work (or, in the case of Art Theory candidates, their
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written submission) representing their year’s study; the theory paper(s); and
any other written documentation, such as diaries and notebooks. The panel will
include the candidate’s studio and theory supervisors.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 100%/50%
Teaching: regular tutorials and seminars
Prereq: Fine Arts degree/diploma with at least two distinctions or above or a
degree in an accepted cognate discipline. It is normally expected that one
distinction will be in the final year of the major unit completed.
Mutual excl: FSA400/401
Courses: F4A
Professional Practices 1
Enrolment code: FFA750
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA760
Unit description: Consists of a professional practice project or a series of such
projects agreed upon in consultation with academic staff of the School. The
projects can be taken in one of the following studios: Art Theory, Ceramics,
Drawing, Painting, Printmedia, Sculpture, and Textiles.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Mutual excl: FSA750
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: F7D
Professional Practices 2
Enrolment code: FFA751
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA761
Unit description: Consists of a professional practice project or a series of such
projects which extends those undertaken in Professional Practices 1 ( FFA750),
and agreed upon in consultation with the School’s Coursework Awards
Committee. The projects can be taken in one of the following studios: Art
Theory, Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Printmedia, Sculpture, and Textiles.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 50%
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Teaching: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA750
Mutual excl: FSA751
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: F7D
Professional Practices 3
Enrolment code: FFA752
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA762
Unit description: Consists of a professional practice project or a series of such
projects which extends those undertaken in Professional Practices 2 ( FFA751),
and agreed upon in consultation with the School’s Coursework Awards
Committee. The projects can be taken in one of the following studios: Art
Theory, Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Printmedia, Sculpture, and Textiles.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA751
Mutual excl: FSA752
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: F7D
Research Project
Enrolment code: FFA753
Offered: Ltn, sem 1/sem 2/
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA763
Unit description: Is a supervised research project on a topic agreed upon in
consultation with the Coursework Awards Committee.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 50%
Mutual excl: FSA753
Assess: dissertation by exhibition (plus documentation) or 8,000-word thesis
Courses: F7D
Professional Practices 1
Enrolment code: FFA760
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Offered: Ltn, sem 1&semester 2&
Unit description: Consists of a professional practice project or a series of such
projects agreed upon in consultation with academic staff of the School. The
projects can be taken in one of the following studios: Art Theory, Ceramics,
Drawing, Painting, Printmedia, Sculpture, and Textiles.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Mutual excl: FSA760
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: F7D
Professional Practices 2
Enrolment code: FFA761
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&semester 2&
Unit description: Consists of a professional practice project or a series of such
projects which extends those undertaken in Professional Practices 1 ( FFA760),
and agreed upon in consultation with the School’s Coursework Awards
Committee. The projects can be taken in one of the following studios: Art
Theory, Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Printmedia, Sculpture, and Textiles.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA750
Mutual excl: FSA761
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: F7D
Professional Practices 3
Enrolment code: FFA762
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&semester 2&
Unit description: Consists of a professional practice project or a series of such
projects which extends those undertaken in Professional Practices 2 ( FFA761),
and agreed upon in consultation with the School’s Coursework Awards
Committee. The projects can be taken in one of the following studios: Art
Theory, Ceramics, Drawing, Painting, Printmedia, Sculpture, and Textiles.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 50%
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Teaching: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA751
Mutual excl: FSA762
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: F7D
Professional Practice 1
Enrolment code: FFA763
Offered: Ltn, sem 1&semester 2&
Unit description: Is a supervised research project on a topic agreed upon in
consultation with the Coursework Awards Committee.
Staff: Ms C Berg (Coordinator, Ltn)
Unit weight: 50%
Mutual excl: FSA763
Assess: dissertation by exhibition (plus documentation) or 8,000-word thesis
Courses: F7D
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