F2003 Bachelor of Fine Art
Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture
Bachelor of Fine Art (F2003) is a 3 years full-time, 144-credit-point, bachelor degree course from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, taught at Caulfield. Map your units semester by semester with the MonMap planner.
- Credit points
- 144
- Duration
- 3 years full time
- 6 years part time
- Campus
- Caulfield
- On campus
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Overview
This course will educate you in all aspects of creative visual practices and cultures and will also enable you to build a high level of expertise in one of two specialisations:
- Art history and curating
- Fine art
You will engage directly with professional artists as well as with practitioners from allied creative fields including art theory, administration, management, education, writing, design and the curatorial.
Art history and curating will prepare you to operate effectively within the expanded field of art history, criticism, curating and cultural production more generally. You will be able to situate fine art in relation to broad social, cultural, environmental, historical and theoretical developments, explore forms of writing about art and visual culture, and study curatorial theories and practice related to the presentation, interpretation and promotion of art works in exhibition settings. This specialisation is also available in a double degree course. You can develop your critical and curatorial practice and integrate this your expertise in the field of your second degree such as arts, business and media communication.
Fine art will prepare you for a career as a contemporary professional artist and will provide you with adaptable creative skills that open up a variety of career options in allied creative and professional fields. You can take an interdisciplinary approach and explore a range of media and techniques, across digital technologies, drawing, glass, installation, jewellery, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture, sound and video, or you can practice and focus on a single medium. This specialisation is also available in a double degree course.
Your engagement in the field of your second degree such as arts, business, education, or information technology will inform your artistic production. You may also choose to share your artistic creativity and passion through a professional career in teaching by enrolling in the double degree with education.
Course structure
Course rules144 credit points
You must complete 144 credit points comprising:
- 96 credit points of study from Fine art; and
- 48 credit points of free electives.
You must ensure that you complete no more than 10 units (60 credit points) at Level 1 and at least 24 credit points at Level 3 or higher.
Part A. Critical contexts24 credit points
Part B. Disciplinary practices6 credit points
Part C. Studio practices54 credit points
Part D. Discipline electives12 credit points
Part E. Free electives48 credit points
Alternatively, you may choose to select electives from across the university (provided you satisfy the unit rules) to broaden your interdisciplinary perspectives.
The handbook's description of this structure
The course is structured in five parts and develops through theme studies in critical contexts, disciplinary and studio practices, and discipline and free electives. These will come together during the final two studio units in the third year of the course. Final projects will be exhibited in the graduand exhibition.
Part A. Critical contexts
These studies will equip you with the skills necessary to research fine arts issues and provide the research methods relevant to your studio or workshop practice. They will enable you to contextualise your own practice and communicate ideas and strategies. Through the prism of history, as well as reference to bodies of knowledge relevant to cultural production, you will begin to situate the place of art in society.
Part B. Disciplinary practices
The studies will assist you to develop the perceptual, practical and intellectual skills required by art, design and architecture students in the discipline of drawing. This will introduce you to occupational health, safety and environmental training particularly within the context of studying art, design and architecture.
Part C. Studio practices
Through this component of the course you will develop key skills and concepts particular to fine art. Through lectures and seminars, studios or practice driven workshops, you will develop the capacity for independent cultural production within fine art and related fields. Interdisciplinary skills and practices will be explored in conjunction with critical thinking.
Part D. Discipline electives
These elective studies provide you with the opportunity to deepen and broaden your knowledge and practice through the selection of electives in Fine Art. In these studies you can choose to complete an internship or undertake a unit abroad or select units in your discipline that are of interest.
Part E. Free electives
Deepen your knowledge by selecting electives from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, including gaining workplace experience by selecting an internship unit as an elective and enriching your degree by using free electives for Monash Abroad opportunities. Alternatively, you may choose to select electives from across the university (provided you satisfy the unit rules) to broaden your interdisciplinary perspectives.
Course progression map
The course progression maps provide guidance on unit enrolment for each semester of study. Please ensure that you refer to the correct map for your semester of commencement:
The course comprises 144 points, of which 96 points are focussed on the study of fine art and 48 points are free electives.
The course is structured in five parts and develops through theme studies in critical contexts, discipline and studio practices, and discipline and free electives.
You must ensure that you complete no more than 10 units (60 points) at level 1 and at least 24 points at level 3.
Units are 6 credit points unless otherwise stated.
You must complete 96 credit points, comprising:
Part A. Critical contexts (24 credit points);
Part B. Disciplinary practices (6 credit points);
Part C. Studio practices (54 credit points); and
Part D. Discipline electives (12 credit points).
Part A. Critical contexts (24 credit points)
You must complete the following units:
AHT1101 Renaissance to romanticism
AHT1102 Modernism and the avant-garde
AHT2102 Post-war to contemporary art
BLK1000 Indigenous Australian creative practice and ways of knowing
Part B. Disciplinary practices (6 points)
You must complete the following two units:
DWG1201 Drawing: Introduction
OHS1000 Introduction to art and design health and safety (0 points)
Part C. Studio practices (54 credit points)
You must complete the following units:
FNA1111 Studio practices 1
FNA1112 Studio practices 2 (12 points)
FNA2211 Studio practices 3
FNA2212 Studio practices 4
FNA3111 Studio practices 5 (12 points)
FNA3112 Studio practices 6 (12 points)
Part D. Discipline electives (12 points)
You must complete 12 credit points of Fine Art practical elective units. This can include the following faculty internship unit.
ADA3406 Work Integrated Learning placement
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Part E. Free electives (48 points)
Deepen your knowledge by selecting electives from the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, including gaining workplace experience by selecting an internship unit as an elective and enriching your degree by using free electives for Monash Abroad opportunities. Alternatively, you may choose to select electives from across the university (provided you satisfy the unit rules) to broaden your interdisciplinary perspectives.
Free electives can be identified using the [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/search][browse units]] tool and [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/units/][indexes of units]] in the current edition of the Handbook. [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/index-bydomain_type-major.html][Majors]] and [[http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/aos/index-bydomain_type-minor.html][minors]] can also be identified using the Handbook indexes. The level of the unit is indicated by the first number in the unit code; undergraduate units are those that commence with the numbers 1-3. You may need permission from the owning faculty to enrol in some units taught by other faculties.
Learning outcomes
These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework and Monash Graduate Attributes.
Upon successful completion of this course it is expected that you will be able to:
- 1
Demonstrate knowledge of contemporary and historical fine art practices, theories, and contexts, situating studio practice within broader cultural, social, and environmental frameworks;
- 2
Apply a range of studio skills, methods, material processes, and safe working practices to produce and present resolved artworks in response to different contexts.
- 3
Integrate fine art practice with interdisciplinary knowledge across diverse public contexts;
- 4
Engage in critical discourses within artistic communities and develop interpersonal skills to collaborate and exchange ideas;
- 5
Respond to contemporary challenges by adopting ethical, equitable, and climate-aware approaches to creative practice;
- 6
Develop reflexive strategies to sustain creative practice and evaluate research in response to emerging cultural, social and technological developments;
- 7
Articulate a position concerning place and belonging in relationship to Indigenous cultural frameworks within a global context.
Entry requirements
Other applicants
BAHC: All applicants must satisfy the equivalence of the VCE subject prerequisites. VET Certificate IV, diploma or advanced diploma graduates: To be considered, applicants will normally require at least 60% average. Preference will be given to students whose prior studies are related to the course in which they are seeking admission. Programs that involve competency-based assessment without grades or marks will not meet the admission requirements. University: Two single units at an Australian higher education institution satisfy minimum entry requirements, but more units may be useful for selection, especially in areas of study related to the course in which admission is being sought.
BFA: All applicants must satisfy the equivalence of the VCE subject prerequisites. VET Certificate IV, diploma or advanced diploma graduates: To be considered, applicants must provide evidence of successful completion. Preference will be given to students whose prior studies are related to the course in which they are seeking admission. Programs that involve competency-based assessment without grades or marks will meet the admission requirements. University: Two single units at an Australian higher education institution satisfy minimum entry requirements, but more units may be useful for selection, especially in areas of study related to the course in which admission is being sought.
English language
Monash Level A, that is: IELTS (Academic): 6.5 overall (no band lower than 6.0); or Pearson Test of English (Academic): score of 58 overall with no band lower than 50; or TOEFL Internet-based test: score of 79 overall with minimum scores: Writing: 21, Listening: 12, Reading: 13 and Speaking: 18; or Equivalent approved English test
Pathways
Monash College - Diploma of Art & Design - only for Bachelor of Fine Art
Fine Art (Indigenous entry)
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Progression to further studies
Successful completion of the Bachelor of Fine Art (F2003) may provide a pathway to the one year honours program Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) (F3701). To be eligible to apply for entry into the Bachelor of Fine Art (Honours) (F3701), you must obtain a distinction grade average of 70% or above in the final year of the undergraduate course.
Notes for students
You can enrich your degree to hone your academic and professional skills with a range of Flagship Rich Educational Experiences (FREE). These flagship rich educational experience units may be credited utilising your free electives, or alternatively in place of your discipline specific electives (up to 6 credit points) if approved by the faculty. There are both 6 and 12 credit point unit options available.*
For information on eligibility please see FREE.
*If you are enrolled in a double degree it may be possible to utilise credit from one or both of your degrees to do a 6 and/or 12 credit point flagship rich educational experience. For information on eligible double degree combinations please see FREE.
Other information
This course will educate you in all aspects of contemporary creative visual practices to enable you to build a high level of expertise in Fine art. You will engage directly with professional artists, as well as with practitioners from allied creative fields including art history and theory, curatorial, design and architecture.
Fine art will prepare you for a career as a contemporary professional artist and provide you with transferable creative, critical and problem-solving skills that open pathways across creative industries, cultural sectors and broader professional fields. You can take an interdisciplinary approach and explore a range of studio methods, material processes, and techniques across drawing, ceramics, glass, jewellery, painting, photography (digital and analogue), printmaking, sculpture and installation, sound and video, as well as digital fabrication technologies. Or you can practice and focus on a single medium. Studio practice is complemented by an understanding of critical contexts through art history and theory and an introduction to Indigenous Australian creative practice and ways of knowing ensuring conceptual and contextual learning is continually integrated into creative practice.
The Bachelor of Fine Art is also available in a double degree course. Your engagement in your second degree, whether in Arts, Business, Education, Information Technology, Design or Architecture, will inform your artistic production and allow you to develop expertise across multiple disciplines and career pathways. A double degree with Design and Architecture will create opportunities to work across contemporary art, design and the built environment.
Common questions
How long is Bachelor of Fine Art?
3 years full time, 144 credit points. At 24 credit points a semester, that is 6 semesters of full-time study.
Where can I study Bachelor of Fine Art?
At Caulfield.
How do I plan my Bachelor of Fine Art units?
Open the course in the MonMap planner. It lays out your semesters, checks prerequisites as you drag units in, and tracks the credit points each requirement still needs.