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BP201 · RMIT University · Bachelor degree

Bachelor of Fine Arts

College of Design and Social Context

Minimum ATAR
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Full time
3 years
Part time
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Credit points
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Campus
Melbourne City
Mode
On campus

Overview

Immerse yourself in a diverse creative environment and advance your artistic practice in specialised studios at a world-leading contemporary art school.

Immerse yourself in a creative environment and hone your artistic practice with studio specialisations at a world-leading art and design school.

Course structure

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Year One of Program

60 cp

Students must complete a series of compulsory onboarding modules during their first semester or study period. Complete 60 credit points from the following: AND Complete 36 credit points from your chosen combination.

  • VART3794Place and Context12 cp
  • VART3765Digital Materialities in Creative Practice12 cp
  • VART3778Foundation Studio24 cp
  • HUSO2455Twentieth Century Art: Global Modernisms and Beyond12 cp

Year Two of Program

24 cp

Complete 24 credit points from the following Art History and Theory Courses: AND Complete 72 credit points from your chosen combination.

  • HUSO2452Art Theory: Materiality and Technology12 cp
  • HUSO2453Art Theory: Society and Environment12 cp
  • VART3594Photography Histories and Theories12 cp

Year Three of Program

48 cp

Complete 48 credit points from the following: AND Complete 48 credit points from your chosen combination.

  • HUSO2454Contextualising Art Practice12 cp
  • VART3776Fine Arts Capstone Studio24 cp
  • VART3777Fine Arts Professional Practice12 cp

Major: 2D Studio Practices

AND AND AND

  • VART3811Themes in Contemporary Painting Practice24 cp
  • VART3813What is Drawing?24 cp
  • VART3799Print: Alchemy, Technique and the Artist’s Response24 cp
  • VART3772Exploded Studio 124 cp
  • VART3790Painting: Matter and Mutability24 cp
  • VART3770Drawing: Experimental Directions24 cp
  • VART3798Print Intersections: Exploring Analog/Digital Thresholds24 cp
  • VART3773Exploded Studio 224 cp
  • VART3792Painting: Sites of Collaboration and Making24 cp
  • VART3767Drawing Encounters24 cp
  • VART3800Print: Out of the Matrix24 cp
  • VART3774Exploded Studio 324 cp
  • VART3789Painting in a Global Context24 cp
  • VART3769Drawing: Everything all at Once24 cp
  • VART3795Political Contexts through Print24 cp
  • VART3775Exploded Studio 4: Exploded-Imploded Methodologies, Making the Unreal Real24 cp

Major: 3D Studio Practices

AND AND AND

  • VART3757Ceramics Skills 1: Hand Forming and Surface12 cp
  • VART3784Jewellery and Material Skills 1: Additive Technologies12 cp
  • VART3804Sculpture Skills 1: Constructing Ideas12 cp
  • VART3760Ceramics: From the Surface Up12 cp
  • VART3782Jewellery and Material Practice: Themes and Narratives12 cp
  • VART3802Sculptural Elements and Models12 cp
  • VART3761Ceramics: Plaster Moulds and Ceramic Hybrid Forms12 cp
  • VART3781Jewellery and Material Practice: Shape, Shift and Repurpose Technologies12 cp
  • VART3806Sculpture: Casting and Transformation12 cp
  • VART3759Ceramics: Experimental Clay Materiality12 cp
  • VART3805Sculpture: Adventures in Materiality12 cp
  • VART3783Jewellery and Material Practice: Transformative Technologies12 cp
  • VART37463D Studio Project A12 cp
  • VART3758Ceramics: Equilibrium and Balance12 cp
  • VART3812Thinking through Making in Sculpture12 cp
  • VART3786Making Ceramic History Present12 cp
  • VART3810The Ready Made in Jewellery and Material Practice12 cp
  • VART3803Sculpture in the Expanded Field12 cp
  • VART3788Miniature Jewellery and Objects12 cp
  • VART37473D Studio Project B12 cp

Major: Expanded Media Arts

AND

  • OART1121Expanded Media Arts Studio 112 cp
  • OART1122Expanded Media Arts Studio 212 cp
  • OART1123Expanded Media Arts Studio 312 cp
  • OART1124Expanded Media Arts Studio 412 cp
  • OART1118AI for Creative Practice12 cp
  • OART1120Digital Dimensions: 3D Modelling and Extended Reality (XR)12 cp
  • VART2022Experimental Animation12 cp
  • VART3822Photographic Material Thinking12 cp
  • VART3825Picturing Power12 cp
  • VART3801Projection, Light and Optics12 cp
  • VART3808Sound Art, Composition and Installation12 cp
  • VART3464Video Art12 cp

Major: Photography

AND AND

  • VART3592Fundamental Photographic Techniques12 cp
  • VART3816Digital Skills for Photography12 cp
  • VART3596Photographic Lighting and Representation12 cp
  • VART3814Contemporary Photographic Practice12 cp
  • VART3822Photographic Material Thinking12 cp
  • VART1710Editorial Photography12 cp
  • VART3817Documentary Photography12 cp
  • VART3594Photography Histories and Theories12 cp
  • VART3823Photography and Environment12 cp
  • VART3826The Performed Image: Photography and Identity12 cp
  • VART3825Picturing Power12 cp
  • VART3815Counter Investigations12 cp
  • VART3828Translating Spaces: Architectural and Interior Photography12 cp
  • VART3827Transforming Objects: Contemporary Product Photography12 cp
  • VART3821Photographic Exhibition Practice12 cp
  • VART3820Fashion Photography Futures12 cp
  • VART3818Documentary Project12 cp
  • VART3819Expanded Photographic Practice12 cp

Minor: Printmaking

  • VART3480Artists' Books12 cp
  • VART1221Lithography: Drawing to Print12 cp
  • VART3478Photographic Screenprinting12 cp
  • VART3793Photographic Etching: From Unique to Multiple12 cp
  • VART3797Print (Re)Generations12 cp

Minor: Drawing

  • VART1325Life Drawing and Observation12 cp
  • VART3505Capture, Translate and Synthesise12 cp
  • VART3768Drawing, Perception and the Body12 cp
  • VART3779From Hand to Machine: authored and unauthored drawing12 cp
  • VART3766Drawing Electric12 cp

Minor: Painting

  • VART3809States of Abstraction12 cp
  • VART3763Contemporary Figuration12 cp
  • VART3752Art, Culture and Bio-materiality12 cp
  • VART3791Painting: Migration and Global Mobilities12 cp

Minor: Ceramics

  • VART3757Ceramics Skills 1: Hand Forming and Surface12 cp
  • VART3761Ceramics: Plaster Moulds and Ceramic Hybrid Forms12 cp
  • VART3759Ceramics: Experimental Clay Materiality12 cp
  • VART3748Alternative Clay Forming12 cp
  • VART3762Clay and the Functional Object12 cp
  • VART3756Ceramic Form and Surface12 cp
  • VART3764Cut and Construct using Clay12 cp

Minor: Jewellery & Material Practice

  • VART34733D Printed Objects12 cp
  • VART3784Jewellery and Material Skills 1: Additive Technologies12 cp
  • VART3781Jewellery and Material Practice: Shape, Shift and Repurpose Technologies12 cp
  • VART3783Jewellery and Material Practice: Transformative Technologies12 cp
  • VART3755Casting and Metal Alloying12 cp
  • VART3771Enamelling and Colour for Metal12 cp
  • VART3785Jewellery Attachments12 cp
  • VART3787Metal Malleability and Form12 cp

Minor: Sculpture

Minor: Photography

AND

  • VART3596Photographic Lighting and Representation12 cp
  • VART1704Alternative Photographic Processes12 cp
  • VART3823Photography and Environment12 cp
  • VART3826The Performed Image: Photography and Identity12 cp
  • VART3817Documentary Photography12 cp
  • VART3825Picturing Power12 cp
  • VART3815Counter Investigations12 cp
  • VART1710Editorial Photography12 cp
  • VART3820Fashion Photography Futures12 cp
  • VART3828Translating Spaces: Architectural and Interior Photography12 cp
  • VART3827Transforming Objects: Contemporary Product Photography12 cp
  • VART3594Photography Histories and Theories12 cp

Minor: Expanded Media Arts

  • OART1118AI for Creative Practice12 cp
  • OART1120Digital Dimensions: 3D Modelling and Extended Reality (XR)12 cp
  • VART2022Experimental Animation12 cp
  • VART3822Photographic Material Thinking12 cp
  • VART3825Picturing Power12 cp
  • VART3801Projection, Light and Optics12 cp
  • VART3808Sound Art, Composition and Installation12 cp
  • VART3464Video Art12 cp

Minor: Public Art & Social Practice

  • VART3749Art and Social Practice12 cp
  • OART1125Working Collaboratively: Forms for Encounter and Exchange12 cp
  • VART3627Creative Practice in Place: Working with unceded lands12 cp
  • VART3753Blue Sky Lab: Expanding Art Practice through Fieldwork12 cp
  • VART3504Performance and Live Art12 cp
  • VART2027Public Art Projects12 cp
  • OART1119Creative Enterprise12 cp

Interdisciplinary Minors

List of Interdisciplinary Minors:

Minor: Foundations in Teaching

  • TCHE2624Introduction to the teaching profession12 cp
  • TCHE2702Inclusive Teaching12 cp
  • TCHE2701Student and Teacher Well-being12 cp
  • TCHE2456Engaging with Indigenous Perspectives for Responsible Teaching Practice12 cp

Minor: Gender Studies

  • COMM2925Introduction to Gender12 cp
  • HUSO2092Gender, Development and Globalisation12 cp
  • HUSO2388Global Feminisms12 cp
  • COMM2926Rethinking Masculinities12 cp
  • COMM2879Feminist and Queer Perspectives12 cp
  • COMM2927Gender, Communication and Social Change12 cp

Minor: Digital Communication

  • COMM2906Introduction to Digital Communication12 cp
  • COMM2913Precision Writing for Digital Engagement12 cp
  • COMM2872Social Media Communication12 cp
  • COMM2916Digital Audiences and Analytics12 cp
  • COMM2917Communication Platforms and Industries12 cp
  • COMM2914Managing Digital Challenges12 cp
  • COMM2915Content Creation for Digital Engagement12 cp

Minor: Illustration

Minor: Cinema Studies

  • COMM2880Film Criticism: From Early Cinema to the Digital Age12 cp
  • COMM2875Beyond the Frame: Technologies, Industries and Audiences12 cp
  • COMM1036Uses of Film Theory12 cp
  • COMM2881Film Genre12 cp

Minor: Design for Sound Environments

  • ARCH1372Immersive Sound Environments12 cp

Minor: Regenerative Futures

AND

  • ENVI1241Regenerative Fundamentals12 cp
  • ENVI1242Regenerative Challenge12 cp
  • ENVI1243Systems Thinking for Sustainable Futures6 cp
  • ENVI1244Eco-Literacy6 cp
  • ENVI1245Regenerative Design6 cp
  • ECON1629Regenerative Value Systems6 cp
  • HWSS2262Social Equity and Regeneration6 cp
  • BUSM2779Regenerative Business Models6 cp
  • ECON1630Design for the Circular Economy6 cp
  • COSC3158AI Ethics for Sustainable Futures6 cp
  • ENVI1246Regenerative Design for Built Environment6 cp
  • PERF2076Storytelling for Speculative Futures6 cp
  • PROC2131Biomaterials and Biofabrication6 cp
  • COMM3024Reimagining Futures in Media and Culture6 cp
  • ENVI1247Regenerative Supply Chain Management6 cp
  • EMPL1008Linking Life and Learning6 cp
  • BUSM2777Leading Regenerative Action6 cp
  • ENVI1248Regenerative Futures Incubator6 cp
  • ENVI1249Reworlding for Creative Place Keeping6 cp
  • HUSO2459Planetary Pedagogies and Civics6 cp

Program Options

List of Program Option Courses:

  • VART3669Partnered Studio Project24 cp
  • OART1119Creative Enterprise12 cp
  • VART3753Blue Sky Lab: Expanding Art Practice through Fieldwork12 cp
  • VART3791Painting: Migration and Global Mobilities12 cp
  • VART3510Internship12 cp
  • VART2027Public Art Projects12 cp
  • VART3627Creative Practice in Place: Working with unceded lands12 cp
  • VART3504Performance and Live Art12 cp
  • VART3749Art and Social Practice12 cp
  • OART1125Working Collaboratively: Forms for Encounter and Exchange12 cp
  • HUSO1072Art Global Intensive 112 cp
  • VART3511Art and Photography12 cp
  • HUSO2453Art Theory: Society and Environment12 cp
  • HUSO2452Art Theory: Materiality and Technology12 cp
  • VART3594Photography Histories and Theories12 cp
  • VART3751Art Workshop Project12 cp
  • VART3750Art Studio Project12 cp
  • VART34733D Printed Objects12 cp

Careers

  • professional artists
  • arts managers, gallery directors or curators
  • creative entrepreneurs
  • arts educators or academics
  • art community and cultural development workers
  • art technicians