FFA Unit Details as at 13th June, 2002
Introduction to Cultural Practices 1
Enrolment code: FFA102
Offered: Launceston: semester 1
Introduces students to 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 pattern 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, attendance at weekly 1 hr Art Forum
Mutual exclusions FFA100, FPC100
Assessment mode Tutorial contribution (10%), tutorial presentation (10%), 750-word review
(20%), work book (20%), 1,500-word written assignment (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit Workbook
Courses [F3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Introduction to Cultural Practices 2
Enrolment code: FFA103
Offered: Launceston: semester 2
Develops critical skills in relation to the visual and performing arts and, as in FFA102
Contemporary Cultural Practice 1, uses 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 pattern 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prerequisites FFA102, FPC100
Assessment mode excursion performance (20%), tutorial presentation (20%), 500-word
review (20%), 1,500-word written assignment (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit Workbook
Courses [F3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
History of Jazz & Rock A
Enrolment code: FFA210 or FFA310
Offered: not offered in 2002
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Provides an understanding of contemporary forms of jazz and popular music by tracing
its development from its roots in the 19th century to the fusion of black African, European
and Creole music, to the 1950s. The unit will cover the early minstrel music of the
mid-19th century, and explore village blues, ragtime, vaudeville, New Orleans style,
Chicago blues, the Swing Era, and Be Bop. Emphasis will be placed on the social, economic
and cultural context that underpinned the historical development of popular music,
especially in the USA.
Staff Mr MH Mumford
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 3 hours weekly (13 wks); lectures & practical sessions
Prerequisites FFA102 and FFA103 for BCA students
Assessment mode listening journal (50%); tutorial presentation (10%); 48 hour take-home
exam (40%)
Courses [F3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
History of Jazz & Rock B
Enrolment code: FFA211 or FFA311
Offered: not offered in 2002
Surveys major trends and artists within contemporary (Jazz & Rock) music from 1950 to
the present day. Lectures will include important jazz periods such as Cool, Free, and
Jazz/Rock Fusion, and the evolution of rock will be discussed with specific reference to
blues and folk music. Important periods in this idiom will include Rhythm & Blues,
Progressive Rock, Punk, Rap, and Techno. Lectures will also discuss various social and
cultural influences which have influenced the development of contemporary music.
Staff Mr JM Lade
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hrs lectures, 1-hr tutorial (13 wks)
Prerequisites FFA102 and FFA103 for BCA students
Assessment mode 1,500-word assignment (60%), final invigilated exam (40%)
Courses [F3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
World Music
Enrolment code: FFA213 or FFA313
Offered: not offered in 2002
Examines the development of World Music starting from its current influences within the
genre of contemporary music. It will explore the phenomena of fusion between current
popular, contemporary and folk music, including a wide variety of indigenous music,
which has led the development of this increasingly important music expression. Music
from non-western cultures such as India, Indonesia, Thailand, and various indigenous
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musical expressions in Africa and South America will be discussed with reference to
recent contemporary (jazz & rock) music composition and performance practice.
Staff tba
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 3 hours weekly; (13 wks), lectures, tutorials and practical sessions
Prerequisites completion of Year 1 for BCA students
Assessment mode listening journal (50%); tutorial participation (10%); take-home exam
(40%)
Courses [F3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Professional Practice
Enrolment code: FFA233 or FFA333
Offered: not offered in 2002
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 pattern including 8x2-hr lecture/workshops, 1-day seminar (13 wks)
Prerequisites FFA100 or FFA101 or FFA102 or FFA103
Assessment mode attendance (20%), attendance at seminar and 1,500-word seminar report
(30%), portfolio (50%)
Courses [F3E] [F3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Gallery Studies
Enrolment code: FFA234 or FFA334
Offered: Launceston: winter school
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 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 tba
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 8-day intensive seminar, 1-day workshop
Prerequisites FFA100/FFA101/FFA102/FFA103
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Assessment mode formal assignment (70%), participation in practical sessions (30%)
Courses [F3E] [F3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Wilderness and Natural Environment
Enrolment code: FFA235 or FFA335
Offered: not offered in 2002
Special note: enrolment restrictions apply;
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 pattern lecture, tutorial, fieldwork
Prerequisites (S3T: 25% from Schedule B) (FFA102 and FFA103) or equiv
Mutual exclusions HAC284/384
Assessment mode 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 KGN
Courses [F3E] [F3J] [R3A] [S3T] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Thai Art and Culture
Enrolment code: FFA236 or FFA336
Offered: Launceston: winter school
Special note: available as an elective for students in other courses; quotas apply
Involves a selected examination of various aspects of the art, architecture and cultural
history of Thailand. The unit aims to provide students with the opportunity to develop a
deeper understanding of the world and their place within it, an important career building
goal in a time when all professions are becoming increasingly interdependent and
international. During three weeks of overseas study, students will be encouraged to
challenge themselves in a different learning environment and will acquire insights into the
formation of cultural attitudes.
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The unit has four basic components: general preparatory pre travel lectures at the
Launceston campus; lectures on campus at Silpakorn University in Bangkok and Nakorn
Pathom; travel to and tours in Thailand; and lectures on campus at Chiang Mai University.
Staff Mr D Hamilton (Coordinator), Dr D Malor, Prof V McGrath
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 3 weeks (5 days per wk); 3x3-hr orientation session during sem 1; plus
additional study program
Prerequisites 25% level 100 any faculty
Assessment mode either a visual art project (in negotiation with coordinator) or a
3,000-word essay which explores an aspect of Thailand’s art and culture (60%);
workbook/journal (20%); tutorial presentation (20%)
Required texts etc
‘in house’ prepared reader
Courses [F3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
The Construction of Genius
Enrolment code: FFA250 or FFA350
Offered: Launceston: semester 2
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 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 pattern 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prerequisites FFA102 and FFA103
Assessment mode 2x500-word short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%),
2,000-word essay (50%)
Required texts etc
Unit Workbook
Courses [F3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Romance and Realism
Enrolment code: FFA251 or FFA351
Offered: not offered in 2002
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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 pattern 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prerequisites FFA102 and FFA103
Assessment mode 2 x 500-word short written exercises, tutorial presentation, 2,000-word
essay
Courses [F3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
The Avant-Garde and the Necessity of the New
Enrolment code: FFA252 or FFA352
Offered: not offered in 2002
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
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 pattern 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prerequisites FFA102 and FFA103
Assessment mode short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%), essay (50%)
Courses [F3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
The Arts in Revolt
Enrolment code: FFA254 or FFA354
Offered: Launceston: semester 1
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
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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), Assoc Prof Lohrey and others
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly
Prerequisites FFA102 and FFA103
Assessment mode 2x500-word short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%),
2,000-word essay (50%)
Required texts etc
Unit Workbook
Courses [F3J] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Research Seminar A
Enrolment code: FFA300
Offered: Launceston: semesters 1 & 2
Is a full-yearresearch-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%
Teaching pattern individual supervision
Prerequisites minimum of 12.5 at level 200 in Art Theory
Assessment mode 3,000-word essay + 3,500-word essay, seminar presentation
Courses [F3E] [F3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Research Seminar B
Enrolment code: FFA301
Offered: Launceston: semester 1 OR semester 2
Is a single-semester 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 12.5%
Teaching pattern individual supervision
Prerequisites minimum of 12.5 at level 200 in Art Theory
Assessment mode 3,500-word essay, seminar presentation
Courses [F3E] [F3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
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Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours
Full time/Part time
Enrolment code: FFA400 or FFA401
Offered: Launceston: semesters 1 & 2
Special note: full-time students enrol in FFA400 (100%); part-time students in FFA401 (50%)
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 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 Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight 100%/50%
Teaching pattern regular tutorials and seminars
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Prerequisites 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 exclusions FSA400/401
Courses [F4A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Professional Practices 1
Enrolment code: FFA750
Offered: Launceston: semester 1 OR semester 2
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA760
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 Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight 50%
Teaching pattern 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Mutual exclusions FSA750
Assessment mode by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses [F7D]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Professional Practices 2
Enrolment code: FFA751
Offered: Launceston: semester 1 OR semester 2
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA761
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 Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight 50%
Teaching pattern 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites FFA750
Mutual exclusions FSA751
Assessment mode by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses [F7D]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
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Professional Practices 3
Enrolment code: FFA752
Offered: Launceston: semester 1 OR semester 2
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA762
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 Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight 50%
Teaching pattern 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites FFA751
Mutual exclusions FSA752
Assessment mode by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses [F7D]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Research Project
Enrolment code: FFA753
Offered: Launceston: semester 1 OR semester 2
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA763
Is a supervised research project on a topic agreed upon in consultation with the
Coursework Awards Committee.
Staff Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight 50%
Mutual exclusions FSA753
Assessment mode dissertation by exhibition (plus documentation) or 8,000-word thesis
Courses [F7D]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
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