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DGN2512Packaging design

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

Packaging design is a unit specifically for those who wish to explore the application of communication design processes within the realm of 3-dimensional packaging design. Packaging continues to be a prominent component of our visual...

Semester 1Caulfield

PTG2031Painting: Colour strategies

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

This unit explores the rich history and practice of colour composition in painting. It will provide you with an in-depth engagement with a variety of colour strategies as well as the theories informing them. You will have the opportunity...

Semester 2Caulfield

PTG2033Painting: Figuration

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

This unit investigates the technical and conceptual processes of a range of painting methods. The unit provides you with an in-depth engagement with the skills in a variety of representational and abstract painting processes. This...

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

PTG1001Painting: Introduction to materials and methods

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

This unit investigates the technical foundations of painting. It considers the role of painting both within a rich history and as a contemporary medium of art practice. The unit provides you with an in-depth introduction to skills in a...

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

DGN1533Photographic art direction

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

This unit will develop your skills in your ability to manipulate and control photographic imagery via a sound understanding of digital camera technology, its associated software and studio lighting. This unit will expose you to the...

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

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

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

UPD3501Reimagining cities

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

This unit will introduce you to essential concepts and creative approaches that you can apply to develop solutions for more sustainable and equitable cities. In Australia and globally, there is an urgent need to understand and develop new...

Semester 2Caulfield

AHT2135Renaissance art and architecture

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

This unit explores the history and theory of Renaissance art and architecture from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. You will be introduced to the work of artists and architects such as Giotto, Donatello, Alberti, van Eyck,...

Semester 2Caulfield

AHT2130Renaissance to Baroque: Italian art and architecture in context

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

This unit is only offered in Prato (Italy). This unit focuses on the art and architecture of early modern Italy. Key examples of Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque painting, sculpture, architecture, material culture, urbanism and landscape...

Prato