Units that can be counted towards Visual Culture
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First-year level
Core
- VSA1000 Introduction to visual culture: back to the future
Plus at least one of*:
- VSA1010 Contemporary visual culture
- FTV1050 Contemporary film studies (previously VSA1050)
*Students majoring in Visual Culture are encouraged to take all three first year units. However, only 12 points of first year studies can be counted towards a major. Accordingly, completing all three first year VSA units will result in the need to complete 54 credit points of Visual Culture studies for a major.
Second/Third-year level
Prerequisites: normally, entry into second and third-year level visual culture units is dependent on completion of appropriate first and/or second-year level units. However, in special circumstances, it may be possible for students who have completed appropriate equivalent studies to enter these units, with the approval of thediscipline coordinator.
- FRN2290 / FRN3290 France on film (previously VSA2280 / VSA3280)
- FRN2706 / FRN3706 Representing Paris: literature and visual culture
- FTV2040 / FTV3040 Australian film Studies (previously VSA2040 / VSA3040)
- FTV2050 / FTV3050 Remaking Film/Genre (previously VSA2050 /VSA3050)
- FTV2190 / FTV3190 Forms of narrative cinema (previously VSA2190 / VSA3190)
- FTV2220 / FTV3220 Alternative film and video (previously VSA2220 / VSA3220)
- FTV2240 / FTV3240 Cinema Institutions: The New Hollywood (previously VSA2240 / VSA3240)
- FTV2670 / FTV3670 Asian Cinema (previously VSA2670 / VSA3670)
- FTV2710 / FTV3710 Documentary film: an Australian focus (previously VSA2710 / VSA3710)
- FTV3020 From film theory to video practice (previously VSA3020)
- FTV3750 Indonesian and Southeast Asian film and television (previously VSA3750)
- ITA2260 / ITA3260 Italy on film (previously VSA2260 / VSA3260)
- TAD2030 / TAD3030 Fashion, image, advertising 2A/3A (previously VSA2030 / VSA3030)
- TAD2440 / TAD3440 Camera-culture: from analogue to digital representation 2A/3A(previously VSA2440 / VSA3440)
- TAD2460 / TAD3460 Cyberculture: from digital to virtual representation 2A/3A (previously VSA2460 / VSA3460)
- TAD2530 / TAD3530 Baroque Visual Culture: from Caravaggio to Neo-Baroque 2A/3A (previously VSA2530 / VSA3530)
- VSA2230 / VSA3230 Australian Visual Culture: Heidelberg to Contemporary
- VSA2800 / VSA3800 Colonial/Postcolonial: Australian art and film
- VSA2820 / VSA3820 Male Trouble: masculinities in visual culture