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Photography Major
UAC Code: 754604
The Photography major will equip you with the technical, conceptual and theoretical skills to embark on a career as a practising visual artist, or in other related fields such as commercial, documentary or multi-media photography, design and art education. The course will cultivate informed practitioners through visual experiences and critical thinking. You will undertake a range of studies utilising analogue and digital technologies in diverse studio subjects which will include digital photography and Photoshop, darkroom processes and printing, studio lighting (portraiture and still life), fieldwork site and context, photo- assemblage and series and photography in the expanded field of new technologies (including audio and the moving image). You will develop practical studio skills alongside an understanding of traditions and concepts relevant to photography in historical, theoretical and contemporary visual art contexts. You will study under the guidance of some of Australia’s leading contemporary photographic practitioners and scholars.
Subjects | Session | Credit Points | |
Core BCA Subjects: | |||
Contemporary Creative Practice | Autumn | 6 | |
Critical Frameworks in Creative Practice | Spring | 6 | |
Professional Practice | Spring Summer | 6 | |
Major Study: | |||
| Visual Foundation 1 | Autumn | 6 | |
| Visual Foundation 2 | Autumn | 6 | |
| Introduction to Photography 1 | Autumn | 6 | |
| Visual Foundation 3 | Spring | 6 | |
| Visual Foundation 4: Studio Practice | Spring | 6 | |
| Introduction to Photography 2 | Spring | 6 | |
| Visual Arts Studio 1 | Autumn | 6 | |
| Advanced Photography 1 | Autumn | 6 | |
| Contemporary Indigenous Art: Theory and Practice | Autumn | 6 | |
| Advanced Photography 2 | Spring | 6 | |
| Visual Art, Modernism and the Avant-garde | Spring | 6 | |
| Advanced Photography 3 | Autumn | 6 | |
| Visual Arts Major Project | Spring | 12 | |
One of the following 300 level BCA Theory subjects: | |||
Contemporary Theory and the Practising Writer | Autumn | 6 | |
New Media and Visual Communications Theory | Autumn | 6 | |
| Music and Culture | N/O 2014 | 6 | |
Theory and Practice of Theatre and Performance in the 20th and 21st Century | Autumn | 6 | |
Contemporary Artworlds | Autumn | 6 | |
Advanced Graphic Design and Visual Communications Theory | Spring | 6 | |
Political Dramaturgy | Spring | 6 | |
Globalisation and Contemporary Art | Spring | 6 | |
Curatorial Practices | Spring | 6 | |
Other Information
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