Art - 9314
Program Summary
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
Contact: www.artdesign.unsw.edu.au
Campus: Paddington
Career: Postgraduate
Typical UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC Per Semester: 6
Max UOC Per Semester: 24
Min UOC For Award: 96
Award(s):
Master of Art
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Program Description
The Master of Art has two main components: a core of specialised art courses and studio-based classes in a number of specialisations.
In the art core you will learn about the key and evolving concepts and practices of contemporary studio fine art practice, to help you situate yourself in a world marked by interdisciplinarity, a new and innovative engagement with materials and methods, and the necessity of experimentation and innovation, as well as continuity and tradition.
The studio-based courses enable you to either focus on a specific area of practice, or to put together your own suite of courses.
The program culminates in a major project, which enables you to integrate your creative practice and develop as a creative arts professional.
Studio-based art specialisation available:
- Planar Practices which engages with creative practice using colour, line, and surface. It works across the disciplines of painting, drawing, printmaking and the screen.
- Temporal and Spatial Practices addresses creative practice using lens, time, space and objects, which works across the disciplines of photography, video, animation, sculpture, installation and performance.
- Future Making focuses on the making of objects, with new materials and digital technologies and craftsmanship. It addresses the integration of technical knowledge and skills with material and contextual understanding. Future Making works with ceramics, jewellery, metal, textiles, furniture and lighting.
- Visualisation and Visual Effects which focuses on the practices of designing for animation, 3D, sound, film, video, illustration and computing.
- Interaction Design and User Experience which addresses visual communication and user-experience across graphics, media and emergent inter-actives.
- Experience Design engages with the design of products, processes, services, events and environments, with a focus on the quality of the user experience.
Program Objectives and Graduate Attributes
Program Structure
Master of Art taken as a 96 UOC program [normally over 2 years full time or 4 year part time]
Art Core
- ADAD9113 Communication Skills (6 UOC)
- ADAD9114 Research Foundations Art & Des (6 UOC)
- SART9001 Studio Concepts and Practices (6 UOC)
- SART9002 Process and Materiality (6 UOC)
- SART9003 The Consolidated Studio (6 UOC)
- SART9204 Capstone Project (12 UOC)
- SART9205 Project Paper (6 UOC)
- SAHT9138 Art in the 21st Century or SAHT9204 Contemporary Creative Practices: Methods
- SART9115 Fine Arts Professional Practice or Art History course (6 UOC)
- Six courses (36 UOC) from approved Studio Specialisations
Art Core
- ADAD9114 Research Foundations Art & Des (6 UOC)
- SART9002 Process and Materiality (6 UOC)
- SART9003 The Consolidated Studio (6 UOC)
- SART9204 Capstone Project (12 UOC)
- SART9115 Fine Arts Professional Practice or Art History course (6 UOC)
- Five courses [30 UOC] from approved Studio Specialisations
Art Core
- SART9003 The Consolidated Studio (6 UOC)
- SART9204 Capstone Project (12 UOC)
- SART9205 Project Paper (6 UOC)
- SART9115 Fine Arts Professional Practice or Art History course (6 UOC)
- Three courses [18 UOC] from approved Studio Specialisations
Planar Practices
- SART9209 Figure and Figuration: Mapping the Body (6 UOC)
- SART9108 The Laptop Atelier (6 UOC)
- ADAD9211 Hybrid Crafting (6 UOC)
- ADAD9212 Material Thinking (6 UOC)
- ADAD9215 Ecologies of Production (6 UOC)
- ADAD9216 Society, Collaboration and Cultural Practices (6 UOC)
- SDES9320 3D Visualisation (6 UOC)
- SDES9321 3D Digital Aesthetics (6 UOC)
- SDES9324 3D Visualisation and Rendering (6 UOC)
- SDES9350 Design and Production in Context (6 UOC)
- SDES9311 Interaction Design (6 UOC)
- SDES9312 Human-Centred Design Methods (6 UOC)
- SDES9315 Tangible Interfaces (6 UOC)
- SDES9300 Domestic Futures (6 UOC)
- SDES9305 Participatory Design (6 UOC)
- SDES9311 Interaction Design (6 UOC)
Academic Rules
- 60 UOC in Core courses
- 36 UOC in approved specialisation courses
Prior qualifications or prior learning allow entry with advanced standing, allowing completion of either 72 UOC made up of 48 UOC in Core courses and 24 UOC in approved specialisation courses, or 48 UOC made up of 36 UOC in Core courses and 12 UOC in approved specialisation courses.
Fees
Entry Requirements
- Bachelors degree [AQF Level 7] in any field. This provides admission into the foundational disciplinary course component of the program - requiring completion of 96 UOC (2.0 years).
- Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts [FOE codes 1003], Media [FOE codes 1007] provides admission into the disciplinary course component of the Master of Art - requiring completion of 72 UOC (1.5 years).
- Honours Degree [AQF Level 8] or equivalent in Visual Arts [FOE codes 1003], Media [FOE codes 1007] , permits admission to the advanced disciplinary component of the Master of Art - requiring completion of 48 UOC (1 year).
Applicants without a Bachelors degree may be admitted to the Masters, Graduate Diploma or Graduate Certificate on a case-by-case basis by the Program Director, on the basis of a Portfolio of work and professional experience. The student may articulate up to the Graduate Diploma and Masters if they hold a credit average in their courses taken under the Graduate Certificate.
Schema
Articulation
Students who wish to exit the Masters program early may nominate to transfer to and graduate from the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma provided the requirements for the program have been met.
Area(s) of Specialisation