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Introduction to Cultural Practices 1
Enrolment code: FFA102
Offered: Ltn: sem 1,
Unit description:
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, Mr M Mumford
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, attendance at weekly 1 hr Art Forum
M.excl: FFA100, FPC100
Assess: Tutorial contribution (10%), tutorial presentation (10%), 750-word review (20%),
work book (20%), 1,500-word written assignment (40%)
Required: Unit Workbook
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Introduction to Cultural Practices 2
Enrolment code: FFA103
Offered: Ltn: sem 2,
Unit description:
Develops critical skills in relation to the visual and performing arts and, as in FFA102
Introduction to Cultural Practices 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, Mr M Mumford
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, attendance at 1 hr Arts forum weekly
Prereq: FFA102
Assess: excursion performance (20%), tutorial presentation (20%), 500-word review (20%),
1,500-word written assignment (40%)
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Required: Unit Workbook
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
History of Jazz & Rock A
Enrolment code: FFA210/310
Offered: Ltn: sem 1
Unit description:
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
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103 for BCA students
Assess: listening journal (50%); tutorial presentation (10%); 48 hour take-home exam (40%)
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
History of Jazz & Rock B
Enrolment code: FFA211/311
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
Unit description:
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
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2-hrs lectures, 1-hr tutorial (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103 for BCA students
Assess: 1,500-word assignment (60%), final invigilated exam (40%)
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
World Music
Enrolment code: FFA213/313
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
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
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
Prereq: completion of Year 1 for BCA students
Assess: listening journal (50%); tutorial participation (10%); take-home exam (40%)
Courses: [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Professional Practice
Enrolment code: FFA233/333
Offered: Ltn: winter-sch
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
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presentation of a professional portfolio. This unit prepares students for a research project
in professional practice which can be carried out in Research Seminar (FFA301).
Staff: Mr M Bywaters
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 8-day intensive seminar, 1-day workshop (June-July)
Prereq: FFA102 or FFA103
Assess: attendance (20%), attendance at seminar and 1,500-word seminar report (30%),
portfolio (50%)
Courses: [F3E] [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Gallery Studies
Enrolment code: FFA234/334
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
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 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: Mr M Bywaters
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial, attendance at 1-hr Arts forum weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA102 or FFA103
Assess: formal assignment (70%), participation in practical sessions (30%)
Courses: [F3E] [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Wilderness and Natural Environment
Enrolment code: FFA235/335
Offered: not offered in 2003
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Special note: quotas apply; next offered 2004
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 pattern: lecture, tutorial, fieldwork
Prereq: (S3T: 25% from Schedule B) (FFA102 and FFA103) or equiv
Assess: minor project (assessed at conclusion of field trip) (20%), major fieldwork
component (assessed on final day of exhibition) (80%)
Required: a list of equipment, provisions and other materials will be provided at the
commencement of the unit
Majors: Natural Environment and Wilderness Studies
Courses: [F3E] [F3J] [R3A] [S3T] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Thai Art and Culture
Enrolment code: FFA236/336
Offered: Ltn: winter-sch,
Special note: available as an elective for students in other courses; quotas apply
Unit description:
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.
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
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Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3 weeks (5 days per wk); 3x3-hr orientation session during sem 1; plus
additional study program (June-July)
Prereq: 25% level 100 any faculty
Assess: 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: ‘in house’ prepared reader
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Australia, Art and Design
Enrolment code: FFA237/337
Offered: Ltn: sem 1
Unit description:
Provides a background to understanding contemporary Australian arts practice. The unit
surveys major topics in a comparative manner across the history of Australian art and
design since colonisation. Those studied may include: patronage systems; Aboriginal arts
from collection to curatorship; the arts of migrancy; arts, crafts and architecture; design
and modernism; ecology and the arts; film and myth; photography and advertising; critics
of abstract and conceptual art; the localisation of postcolonialism; regionalism and
globalisation. Teaching makes use of the full resources of the QVMAG, and the natural
and built heritage of the wider Launceston area.
Staff: Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1-hr tutorial, 1-hr Art Forum weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103 or equiv
Assess: 2,000-word essay (30%); 4x 500-word reviews (10% ea); seminar presentation (25%);
participation (5%)
Required: Reader available from School
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
The Construction of Genius
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Enrolment code: FFA250/350
Offered: not offered in 2003
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 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 (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103
Assess: 2x500-word short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%), 2,000-word
essay (50%)
Required: Unit Workbook
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Romance and Realism
Enrolment code: FFA251/351
Offered: Ltn: sem 1
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 pattern: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly (13 wks)
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Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103
Assess: 2 x 500-word short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%), 2,000-word
essay (50%)
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
The Avant-Garde and the Necessity of the New
Enrolment code: FFA252/352
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
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
poststructuralist critiques of modernism undertaken in the latter part of the century.
Staff: Dr D Malor (Coordinator), Assoc Prof J Lohrey
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 1 hr lecture, 1 hr tutorial, 1 hr consultation weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103
Assess: short written exercises (30%), tutorial presentation (20%), essay (50%)
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
The Arts in Revolt
Enrolment code: FFA254/354
Offered: not offered in 2003
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
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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 (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA102 and FFA103
Assess: 2x500-word short written exercises (30%), seminar presentation (30%), 2,000-word
essay (40%)
Required: Unit Workbook
Courses: [F3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Research Seminar
Enrolment code: FFA301
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
Unit description:
Is a single-semester research-based unit by individual supervision and group meetings.
Students are required to develop a research plan for a topic relevant to their arts practice;
and to present their research project in both oral and written form.
Staff: Dr D Malor
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: individual supervision
Prereq: minimum of 12.5 at level 200 in Art Theory
Assess: 3,500-word essay, seminar presentation
Courses: [F3E] [F3J]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Professional Practices 1
Enrolment code: FFA750
Offered: Ltn: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2,
Special note: students enrolling part time should use enrolment code FFA760
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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: Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching pattern: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
M.excl: FSA750
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: [F7D]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Professional Practices 2
Enrolment code: FFA751
Offered: Ltn: may be taken in sem 1 OR 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: Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching pattern: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA750
M.excl: FSA751
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: [F7D]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Professional Practices 3
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Enrolment code: FFA752
Offered: Ltn: may be taken in sem 1 OR 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: Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching pattern: 20 facilitated hrs weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: FFA751
M.excl: FSA752
Assess: by a panel of examiners appointed by the School
Courses: [F7D]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Research Project
Enrolment code: FFA753
Offered: Ltn: may be taken in sem 1 OR 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: Dr D Malor (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 50%
M.excl: FSA753
Assess: dissertation by exhibition (plus documentation) or 8,000-word thesis
Courses: [F7D]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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