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PHO2202Photography: Advanced darkroom and lighting

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

The focus of the unit is creative photographic fine art practice and the power of the photographic image as pertaining to a contemporary artistic context. It aims to build on a preliminary understanding of the theories, histories and...

Semester 1Caulfield

PHO1204Photography: Digital imaging for contemporary art

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit is designed to develop an approach to digital imaging tools that aligns with the objectives of a contemporary art and curatorial practice. You will be introduced to digital imaging processes such as still image manipulation,...

Semester 2Caulfield

PHO1203Photography: Introduction

UnitLevel 1|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit develops an understanding of concepts of photomedia and an understanding of the relationship and relevance of student photographic work to aesthetics in photography, art and design. You will undertake a series of thematic...

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

PHO2207Photography: Processes

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit introduces you to darkroom practices associated with analogue photography. It develops upon the skills and knowledge of photomedia imaging by providing a focus upon creative image production through manipulated photography...

Semester 2Caulfield

UPD4001Planning project 1: Compact city

UnitLevel 4|12 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This project unit explores the complexities and implications of the intensification of cities across multiple scales and how to actively engage in their transformation. Through real world, place-based projects, this foundational studio...

Semester 1Caulfield

UPD4002Planning project 2: Expanding city

UnitLevel 4|12 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This project unit explores the implications of expanding urbanisation on the edge of cities and towns including ecologies, built form and infrastructure. Through projects that involve the interplay between constructed and natural systems...

Semester 2Caulfield

UPD5001Planning project 3: Transforming city

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This project unit explores the implications of growth dynamics across multiple scales and territories. Through projects that focus on urban access and mobility, you will develop a detailed understanding of the determinants involved in...

Semester 1Caulfield

UPD5002Planning project 4: Inclusive city

UnitLevel 5|12 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

Inclusive city focuses on issues pertinent to planning to address the challenge of creating people-centred cities. The unit expands and consolidates advanced concepts, knowledge and skills encompassing a range of complex issues relevant to...

Semester 2Caulfield

ARC2401Positions and dialogues in architecture 1

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit focuses on the multiple histories and narratives of architecture as a form of cultural production. The core structure for this unit will critically interrogate the formation of the discipline and institution of architecture along...

Semester 1Caulfield

ARC3401Positions and dialogues in architecture 2

UnitLevel 3|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit focuses on co-research, collaborative writing and editing when communicating and sharing architectural ideas for a broader audience. The core structure for this unit will explore architectural publishing practices, and the...

Semester 2Caulfield

AHT2102Post-war to contemporary art

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit explores post-war and contemporary art from 1945 to the present. You will be introduced to key artists, movements, practices, exhibitions and institutions that have shaped art in local and global contexts. Key topics will include...

Semester 1Caulfield

DGN2540Practice-based design methods

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit introduces you to a range of practical methods that underpin design practice and offer insight into how designers work. You’ll explore how to select and apply methods appropriate to different phases of the design process. You’ll...

Semester 1Caulfield

PRM2001Printmaking: Etching, relief printing and the artist book

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This studio-based unit explores printmaking methods including intaglio, relief and planographic processes, and considers the printed artwork in the context of contemporary cultural production. The unit presents projects that include...

Semester 1Caulfield

PRM2201Printmaking: Photographic techniques and transformations

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This studio-based unit explores printmaking methods that incorporate photographically derived imagery in the context of contemporary art. You engage with projects that include laser-cut woodblock printing, photo-etching with copper plates,...

Semester 2Caulfield

PRM2401Printmaking: Screenprinting and the contemporary poster

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This is a studio-based unit, where you will be presented with projects involving screenprinting processes and explore the potential of image making using the analogue, digital and photographic stencil processes particular to this...

Semester 2Caulfield

DGN2303Professional documentation for design

UnitLevel 2|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit develops your capacity to understand the expectations of professional documentation in your specialisation area. Through collaboration and critique, you will examine a practice precedent from your field. Using this precedent, you...

Semester 2Caulfield

UPD4101Professional practice 1: Communication and roles

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This professional practice unit focuses on foundational capabilities and core competencies that contribute to the practice of strategic urban planning and design. You will learn how to synthesise and communicate knowledge and ideas using a...

Semester 1Caulfield

UPD5102Professional practice 2: Analysis and research

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This professional practice unit teaches different tools and techniques used in the practice of urban planning and design, and provides hands-on training of their application in the context of strategic planning scenarios.

Semester 2Caulfield

ARC5201Professional practices

UnitLevel 5|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit will expose you to the complex and evolving contexts of local and global architectural practice. It also introduces salient issues of architectural practice management and contract administration. Project-based exercises enable...

Semester 2Caulfield

UPD4302Regulating the city

UnitLevel 4|6 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit develops knowledge and skills around the legal and administrative frameworks that underpin the implementation of planning in Australia, set within national and international contexts. You will critically analyse the roles and...

Semester 2Caulfield