Master of Visual Arts

The Master of Visual Arts requires completion of 96 units, which must consist of:

24 units from completion of the following introductory component:

6 units from completion of a foundation theory course from the following list:

ARTH6004 City Sites: studies in art and urbanity
ARTH6043 Modernism and Postmodernism in Art and Design: 1850-2000
ARTH6044 Art and Its Context: Materials Techniques Display
ARTH6050 Photography and Art
ARTH6052 Art of the Modern Print
ARTH6056 Art and Architecture of Southeast Asia: Tradition and Transformation
ARTH6059 Art and Architecture of Asia: Continuity and Change
ARTH6061 Postmodern Sublime
ARTH6080 Art and Visual Culture of the Long Eighteenth Century, 1660-1815
ARTH6081 Art of the European Courts, 1500-1815
ARTH6082 Art, War and Conflict
ARTH6093 Post-Colonial Discourses in Australian Art
ARTH6097 Victorian and Edwardian Art: Australia and Europe 1837-1914
ARTH6160 Cartographies: Art Exploration and Knowledge
ARTH6161 Contemporary Australian Art
ARTH6162 Cyberculture
ARTH6163 Memory
ARTH6164 Theories of the Object
ARTH6165 Theories of the Image
ARTH6167 Issues in Contemporary Craft and Design
ARTH6168 Renaissance and Baroque Art
ARTH6169 Introducing Asian Modernisms
ARTH6171 Costume, Fashion and Visual Culture
ARTH6598 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art
HIST6233 How the Camera Changed History: A century of photography and cinema

18 units from completion of foundation studio courses from the following list:

ARTV6000 Animation
ARTV6003 Video Art
ARTV8038 Practice-led Research Project
ARTV6057 Hands On: Material Language
ARTV6508 Painting: Materiality and Meaning
ARTV6801 Sculpture: Bricolage Through Collecting, Collating and Construction with Found Materials
ARTV8039 Practice-led Research Major Project

24 units from completion of studio courses on the following disciplinary courses list:

ARTV6003 Video Art
ARTV6006 Photography
ARTV6027 Professional Practices
ARTV6028 Professional Practices Internship
ARTV6100 Typography: Textual use in Visual Arts
ARTV6507 Painting: Open to Influence Studio Research
ARTV6508 Painting: Materiality and Meaning
ARTV6510 Painting: Critical Analysis and Reflection in the Studio
ARTV6802 Sculpture Advanced Construction through Fabrication
ARTV6803 Sculpture: Space and Negative to Positive Reproduction through mould making and surface replication
ARTV6804 Sculpture Replicating Through Casting and Finishing Bronze
ARTV6805 Sculpture Temporal Studies Making Time in Space: through chance and process approaches
ARTV6814 Sculpture: Advanced Methods Through Installation and Site Considerations
ARTV6921 Environment Studio 1
ARTV8038 Practice-led Research Project
ARTV8039 Practice-led Research Major Project
ARTV8040 Practice-led Research Extended Project
ARTV8054 Research
ARTV8300 Visual Arts Studio Masterclass
COMP6720 Art and Interaction in New Media
DESA6017 Multiples and Production: The Unique Offering
DESN6001 Digital Form and Fabrication
DESN6002 Foundations of Creative Code
DESN6003 Creative Data Visualisation: Representing Data in Visual and Material Form
DESN6004 Dynamic Design and Generative Systems
DESN6005 Form and Fabrication in Context
DESN6006 Front-End Web: Crafting Online Experience

24 units from completion of the following research component:

6 units from completion of ARTH8022 Points of View: Independent Creative Art and Media Practice

6 units from completion of a research training course from the following list:

ARTH8020 Arguing Objects
ARTH8021 Writing About Art and Creative Practice

12 units from completion of research project courses from the following list:

ARTV8038 Practice-led Research Project
ARTV8039 Practice-led Research Major Project

24 units from completion of elective courses offered by ANU

The following courses are repeatable for credit, up to a maximum of 36 units each, and if repeated must be repeated with a different topic each time. Each instance of a course may only be counted towards one list.

ARTV8038 Practice-led Research Project
ARTV8039 Practice-led Research Major Project
ARTV8040 Practice-led Research Extended Project

Unless otherwise stated, a course used to satisfy the requirements of one list may not be double counted towards satisfying the requirements of another list.