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AHT4406Curating internship
No reviews yetUnitLevel 3Art, Design and Architecture
Enrolment in this unit involves a six-week internship with an external organisation, such as a gallery or museum, for a minimum of one day per week. You will arrange and negotiate the internship, which will be self-managed, with the...
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
AHT1202Curating: Introduction
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit introduces you to the field of curating and its role within the broader ecology of the art world. You will examine the role of the curator, the work of museums and galleries, and the contributions of staff such as conservators,...
Semester 1Caulfield
AHT2722Curating: Making exhibitions
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit introduces you to the practical, critical and collaborative dimensions of making exhibitions. As a complement to Curating: Histories and theories, the unit supports you to apply curatorial knowledge through field trips, guest...
Semester 2CaulfieldPrato
AHT3150Curating: Project studies
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit is designed to support you through the process of developing and realising a self-directed research project within the disciplines of art history, art writing and curating. You will be encouraged to apply the knowledge you have...
Semester 2Caulfield
DESG-MINDesign
No reviews yetArea of studyMinorUndergraduate24 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
Design can be applied in all aspects of endeavour. The minor in Design enables you to acquire fundamental technical and analytical skills so that you can invent, create and imagine solutions. Having design skills will help you create your...
TDN1002Design and the avant-garde
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
In this unit, you will explore the history of European Modernism and its influence on visual communication, industrial design, and spatial design, recognising key movements and their ideological, political, and cultural foundations. You...
Semester 2Summer BCaulfield
DGN3203Design for culture and heritage
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit is concerned with the radically changing relationships between cultural material and the communication of knowledge, meaning and social memory. Galleries, libraries, archives and museums are time-honoured institutions that we...
Semester 2Caulfield
DGN2211Design for digital fabrication
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit introduces foundational knowledge of digital fabrication, focusing on Laser Cutting, 3D Printing, and CNC machining. Through an iterative design process, you will develop and refine technical and critical thinking skills while...
Semester 2Caulfield
DGN2120Designing for sustainability
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit introduces the foundational principles of sustainability theory and sustainable design practices, fostering the mindset shift designers need to create interventions that drive meaningful social and environmental innovation. You...
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
TDN3002Design strategy and professional practice
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit fosters significant learning by challenging you to critically examine the evolving landscape of design and collaborate across disciplines to address complex issues through innovative and responsible design solutions. You will...
Semester 2CaulfieldPrato
DGN1000Design studio 1
No reviews yetUnitLevel 112 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
Design studio 1 immerses you in both the creative and critical aspects of design. Through hands-on exploration - drawing, photography, digital imaging, paper crafting, and 3D mixed media modelling - you’ll develop an understanding of how...
Semester 1Semester 2CaulfieldIndonesia
DGN2500Design thinking for global challenges
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
Design thinking applies the skills and strategies developed by designers to a wide range of problems and situations. These skills and strategies include a range of conceptual and communication approaches, ways to explore and reconsider the...
Semester 2Caulfield
DGN1602Digital design drawing
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
In this unit, you explore the practice of combining drawing techniques and media through experimental methods. You are introduced to principles of subject framing, selection of appropriate viewpoints, and the combination of multiple views....
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
DWG3518Drawing: Advanced studies
No reviews yetUnitLevel 36 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit provides you with a further opportunity to relate to a more expansive definition of drawing and encourages you, through bold graphic experimentation, to maximise your capacity for individual invention and expression in responding...
Semester 2Caulfield
DWG1201Drawing: Introduction
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
An intensive program facilitating the acquisition and development of practical and intellectual skills required by art and design students in the practice of drawing. This unit explores the ways drawing methodologies can contribute to the...
Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield
DWG2519Drawing: The anatomical specimen
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit provides you with the opportunity to explore the relationship between Fine Art practice and anatomy. You will work from anatomical specimens at The Centre for Human Anatomy Education and various forms of diagrammatic...
Semester 1Caulfield
DWG2509Drawing: The body
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
An intense investigation of the skills required for drawing the human body. Life drawing classes using live models develops your skills in observing inner structure, gesture, spatial organisation and characterisation. Technical studies of...
Semester 2Caulfield
DWG2784Drawing: Tuscany in context
No reviews yetUnitLevel 26 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit is only offered in Prato (Italy). Using the premise of the sketchbook, notebook, journal or diary, you are to develop a personal response to the proposition: how to record the overseas location as a unique site. The notions of...
Prato
FEH1001Exchange art and design unit
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit is used by the Faculty of Art and Design to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students...
Semester 1Semester 2Overseas
FEH1002Exchange art and design unit
No reviews yetUnitLevel 16 credit pointsArt, Design and Architecture
This unit is used by the Faculty of Art and Design to enrol students undertaking outbound exchange studies at a host institution. Students will not be able to enrol in this unit via WES. The faculty will manage the enrolment of students...
Semester 1Semester 2Overseas