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FNA2035Interventions in sound, performance and socially engaged practices

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

This unit introduces you to critical thinking and its role in contemporary creative practices. The unit contextualises the theories and discourses of critical interventions within the history of conceptual art and the politics of...

Semester 1Caulfield

OHS1000Introduction to art and design health and safety

UnitLevel 1|Art, Design and Architecture

This is an online module in Moodle. A quick and easy introduction to occupational health, safety and environmental training within the context of courses and units offered by the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture.

Summer ASemester 1WinterSemester 2Summer BCaulfieldIndonesia

MDC5100Major design project

UnitLevel 5|24 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit represents the final stage of a multi-part design project and you are expected to continue with the work initiated in Design project (part one). Defined designs are expected to be detailed resulting in an assessable design...

Semester 2Suzhou (SEU)

DGN2033Material explorations

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

This unit develops your hands-on making skills and knowledge for the effective and intelligent use of materials and processes. It provides you with a chance to engage in different thematic investigations around traditional, contemporary,...

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

SCU1021Material transformations: Ceramics

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

This unit will engage with the practice of working with clay based processes and will look at current exhibitions of contemporary artists that employ ceramics in their practices. You will explore the potential of clay in forming objects,...

Semester 1Caulfield

JWL2313Material transformations: Contemporary jewellery practices

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

In this unit, the experience of previous units is used to incrementally build upon and extend your knowledge and experience in both making and critical thinking. The continued research of contemporary jewellery and its various contexts...

Semester 2Caulfield

GLS1231Material transformations: Foundations in hot glass forming

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

This unit introduces you to the foundational techniques of glass working and glass blowing, along with finishing methods relevant to contemporary Fine Art or Design. You will develop technical skills through hands-on assignments and...

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

SCU2021Material transformations: Glass and sculptural forming

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

This unit introduces you to contemporary thinking about working with materials, the unique properties of specific material, like glass, and the potential for material transformation in creative practices. The unit will focus on the...

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

JWL2311Material transformations: Jewellery and object forming

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

This unit introduces you to the practice and research of contemporary jewellery and object-based work and is taught through fine art and design methodologies. The emphasis in this unit is on engaging studio processes that combine making...

Semester 1Caulfield

AHT1102Modernism and the avant-garde

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

In this unit, you will explore major movements in Modern Art from 1850 to 1960, including Impressionism, Cubism, Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism and Pop Art. You will investigate key artworks, artists and art-historical texts that have...

Semester 2Caulfield

MDC5220Multimedia design studio 3

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

This unit advances your knowledge gained in preceding studio units and places a strong emphasis on digital experience design. Particular importance is placed on the role of motion graphics and storytelling in multimedia design, including...

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

MDC5320Multimedia design studio 4

UnitLevel 5|18 credit points|Art, Design and Architecture

This unit is the capstone studio to the Multimedia Design specialisation within the Master of Design. You are required to engage with self-initiated major studio projects that demonstrate an advanced-level application of multimedia design....

Semester 1Semester 2Caulfield

AHT3220Museums, archives and cultural heritage

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

This unit explores the role that art museums, cultural archives, and related collecting institutions have played in preserving cultural heritage. In it, you will learn about the origins of these institutions in Europe, and their...

Semester 2Caulfield

AHT2530Neo-Baroque aesthetics: History and theory

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

This unit focuses on Neo-Baroque aesthetics in contemporary culture and their historical antecedents. The Baroque themes of spectacle, trompe l'oeil excess, and incorporeal experience will be examined with reference to the visual arts from...

AHT3530Neo-Baroque aesthetics: History and theory

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

This unit focuses on Neo-Baroque aesthetics in contemporary culture and their historical antecedents. The Baroque themes of spectacle, trompe l'oeil excess, and incorporeal experience will be examined with reference to the visual arts from...

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