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Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) - Queensland University of Technology |
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TEL: 0207 193 7932
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| QTAC code: | | 421782 |
| | Domestic entry: | | February |
| | Past OP cut-off: | | Admission to course is based on portfolio, interview and previous academic achievement. Please refer to Additional Entry Requirements. |
| | Past rank cut-off: | | Admission to course is based on portfolio, interview and previous academic achievement. Please refer to Additional Entry Requirements. |
| | Assumed knowledge: | | English (4, SA) |
| | Preparatory studies: | | ENGLISH: Successful completion of a year of full-time vocational or tertiary study. |
| | CRICOS code: | | 056185A |
| | International fees: | | 2009: $9,750 (indicative) per semester
(per semester, subject to annual review) |
| | International entry: | | February; July |
| | Course duration (full-time): | | 3 years |
| | Total credit points: | | 288 cp |
| | Standard credit points/full-time semester: | | 48 cp |
| | Campus: | | Kelvin Grove |
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Why choose this course?
This course will allow you to follow pathways into a career as a contemporary artist, art professional or art teacher.
Practical teaching
Whether you are planning to become a professional artist, teacher or art professional such as curator or arts manager, you will benefit from substantial studio experience while also receiving training in your specialist area.
You will develop an individual art practice by working on projects in unique, open-media studios while also attending classes in modern and contemporary art history and theory. You will discover how to critically evaluate your work and the work of others through group and individual consultations.
Course structure
There is an emphasis on innovative thinking and a strong conceptual approach. You can combine your studio training with study areas such as interaction design, event management, entrepreneurship, or business, to equip you for a range of careers in the creative economy.
Facilities
Because we embrace an open studio model, you will be encouraged to explore independent approaches to art practice across a variety of media. This allows you to tailor your training to your career aspirations.
Career outcomes
This course will allow you to choose your career. Many of our graduates become highly successful practising artists, who are represented by commercial galleries and have strong careers in the commissioned and public funding sectors. Five of our graduates have been recipients of the Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship; a prestigious national award that supports Australian gradates to develop their studies overseas. With specialist training in a related field, our graduates also take up positions as creative directors, visual designers and a range of other occupations in the creative industries sector. If combined with a Graduate Diploma in Education (Senior Years), this course will enable you to become a qualified teacher.
Additional Entry Requirements
Applicants are selected on the basis of their portfolio and previous academic achievement.
Overview
This course will allow you to follow pathways into a career as a contemporary artist, art professional or art teacher. You will develop an individual art practice by working on projects in unique, open-media studios while also attending classes in modern and contemporary art history and theory. You will discover how to critically evaluate your work and the work of others through group and individual consultations.
Career Outcomes
This course will allow you to choose your career from a range of visual arts related courses . Many of our graduates become highly successful practising artists, who are represented by commercial galleries and have strong careers in the commissioned and public funding sectors. Five of our graduates have been recipients of the Samstag International Visual Arts Scholarship; a prestigious national award that supports Australian gradates to develop their studies overseas. With specialist training in a related field, our graduates also take up positions as creative directors, visual designers and a range of other occupations in the creative industries sector. If combined with a Graduate Diploma in Education (Senior Years), this course will enable you to become a qualified teacher.
Course Structure
In order to complete this course, students must undertake two Creative Industries Foundation units, a maximum of 168 credit points of discipline or specified units relating to the chosen major and 96 credit points of Complementary Studies made up of either Advanced Studio Practice, a Second Major, Minors or elective units.
Other Course Options
The Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) is also available as a dual degree with Education. Applicants accepted into the dual degree will complete a four year program comprised of the three year Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Arts) and the one year Graduate Diploma of Education (Senior Years).
Course Structure
| Code | Title | | Semester 1, Year 1 | | KVB102 | Modernism | | KVB120 | Studio Art Practice 1 | | KKB101 | Creative Industries: People and Practices | | Semester 2, Year 1 | | KVB103 | Australian Art | | KVB121 | Studio Art Practice 2 | | KKB102 | Creative Industries: Making Connections | | Semester 1, Year 2 | | KIB104 | Digital Media | | KVB220 | Studio Art Practice 3 | | | Complementary Studies | | Semester 2, Year 2 | | KVB221 | Studio Art Practice 4 | | | Complementary Studies | | | Choose one from the following two units: | | KVB108 | Contemporary Asian Visual Culture | | KVB211 | Post 1945 Art | | Semester 1, Year 3 | | KVB304 | Contemporary Art Issues | | | Complementary Studies | | | Complementary Studies | | | Complementary Studies | | Semester 2, Year 3 | | | Complementary Studies | | | Complementary Studies | | | Complementary Studies | | | Choose one from the following two units: | | KVB306 | Video Art and Culture | | KVB307 | Theories of Spatial Culture |
Potential careers
Art Project Manager
Artist
Arts Administrator
Curator
Media Industry Specialist
Multimedia Designer
Visual Artist
Visual Arts Teacher
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