Visual Culture: Arts Honours Area of Study
Campus Availability: Clayton
The honours program in Visual Culture is administered by the Department of Theory of Art & Design in the Faculty of Art & Design.
Visual Culture honours can be completed within the honours degree of the Bachelor of Arts or the honours degree of the Bachelor of Letters.
How to Apply
Program
Students complete 48 points at fourth-year level including a thesis and two coursework units chosen from the electives listed. Students are also required to attend a short methodology course.
Coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the Visual Culture Honours Coordinator.
Units that can be counted towards discipline
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Core Units
- VSA4002(A) Minor Thesis Part 1 AND
- VSA4002(B) Minor Thesis Part 2
Elective units
- CLS4760 Gender, Body and Performance
- FTV4042 Historical Film Theory and Criticism
- FTV4052 Contemporary Film Theory and Criticism
- VSA4500 Special Reading Course
- VSA4012 Visual Culture and Its Theories
- VSA4022 Beyond the Museum
- VSA4025 Visual Culture Internship
- VSA4036 Nineteenth Century Australian Art
- VSA4056 Twentieth Century Australian Modernism
- VSA4076 Australian Postmodernism
- VSA4086 The Culture and Imagery of Cities
- VSA4830 Exploration and Immigration in the Cultural Imaginary
- A maximum of 12 points at fourth-year level from another discipline and/or institution with the permission of the Visual Culture Honours Coodinator