Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts)
2020 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2020 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) |
| Course Map | This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 1 2020. This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 2 2020. This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 3 2020. Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Cloud Campus | No |
| Duration | 3 years full-time or part-time equivalent |
| Deakin course code | A359 |
| Approval status | This course is approved by the University under the Higher Education Standards Framework. |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 7. |
Note: Geelong Waterfront campus students can take units of study at the Waurn Ponds Campus. | |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Mandatory student checks
- Fees and charges
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Work experience
- Research and research-related study
Course overview
Develop your skills as a contemporary art practitioner through Deakin's tailor-made Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts). Through specialised studio practice and opportunities to exhibit your work in galleries and exhibitions, you’ll develop your physical, creative and intellectual capacities to engage with the world through new and traditional media. You’ll explore painting, drawing, printmaking, 3D, digital and multidisciplinary forms.
Want to experiment with expression and make a career out of adventurous, contemporary art?
From specialised studio practice and interdisciplinary learning to leading theory and critical thinking, you’ll develop the skills to be an adaptable, articulate and creative practitioner. Draw inspiration from and gain expertise in:
- digital technologies
- traditional techniques
- interdisciplinary practices
- studio practice.
Draw on the expertise of our staff, who are active practitioners and leading researchers in their fields. You’ll also engage with the arts industry through visiting specialists and professionals.
Choose to undertake work placements in art institutions, with contemporary artists as well as at major community and cultural events. You can also go overseas on an optional international study tour.
Through this course, you’ll develop transferable skills in:
- critical thinking
- collaboration
- experimentation
- technique
- visual analysis.
By coupling your major with units in other creative arts disciplines, you’ll expand your career opportunities in areas like marketing, media, and communications. Alternatively, work in arts and cultural communities when you graduate, or develop an independent studio career working towards exhibitions in commercial galleries or publicly-run arts spaces.
If you’re considering becoming a visual arts teacher, you can combine your art specialisation with further postgraduate teaching studies.
Career opportunities
Graduates are equipped with a dynamic skill set, ready for a career in the expanding arts industries. You may find work in roles such as:
- artist
- artist agent
- gallery or exhibition curator
- arts centre manager
- art director
- videographer
- creative director
- desktop publisher
- illustrator.
For more information go to DeakinTALENT
Participation requirements
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability. Click here for more information.
Mandatory student checks
Any unit which contains work integrated learning, a community placement or interaction with the community may require a police check, Working with Children Check or other check.
Transition to University study
The faculty offers two units AIX160 Introduction to University Study and AIX117 Professional Writing for Work which are specifically designed to ease the transition into university study. New students are encouraged to enrol in one or both of these units as electives in their first year.
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on your course, your fee category and the year you started. To find out about the fees and charges that apply to you, visit the Current students fees website.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
| Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities | Interpret and apply conceptual, theoretical and technical skills in the analysis and presentation of a range of creative outcomes. |
| Communication | Critically employ a variety of mediums, methods and techniques to present ideas and practical work. |
| Digital literacy | Critically evaluate, manipulate and apply a range of information technologies, digital tools, devices and environments to support and develop creative processes. |
| Critical thinking | Analyse and synthesize research materials across a diversity of sources and mediums to generate original and diverse creative work. |
| Problem solving | Apply theoretical and practical knowledge to generate and express solutions to creative arts problems |
| Self-management | Develop, manage and critically reflect upon the production and presentation of creative works in accordance with industry standards and personal learning goals. |
| Teamwork | Contribute in a constructive and respectful way to the collaborative production of creative outcomes. |
| Global citizenship | Engage critically, respectfully and with self-awareness when working within diverse social and cultural contexts in creative arts practice. |
| Approved by Faculty Board March 2019 | |
Course rules
To qualify for the award of Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) a student must complete 24 credit points including:
- 8 x common core units (totalling 12 credit points)
- 4 Visual Art discipline units
- 2 course electives from List A
- 6 electives
- no more than 10 credit points at level 1
- AAI018 Academic Integrity (0-credit-point compulsory unit)
Course structure
Core units
| ACA100 | Introductory Creative Studio 1A |
| ACA101 | Introductory Creative Studio 1B |
| ACA210 | Creative Studio 2A (2 credit points) |
| ACA211 | Creative Studio 2B (2 credit points) |
| ACA310 | Creative Studio 3A (2 credit points) |
| ACA311 | Creative Studio 3B (2 credit points) |
| ACA309 | Creative Careers and Contexts |
| ACA397 | Exhibition and Performance |
Visual Art discipline units
| ACV101 | Painting in the Visual Arts |
| ACV212 | Digital Practices and the Visual Arts |
| ACV115 | Drawing and the Body in Visual Arts |
| ACV213 | Modelling and the Visual Arts |
Electives
Complete six free electives, of which at least two must be 2nd or 3rd level
We suggest students complete at least 4 units in a subject area different to their degree, preferably a linked sequence of study in the same area. This choice can include units from any degree in the University but is best chosen from the subject areas in the Bachelor of Creative Arts: (Dance, Drama, Photography), Bachelor of Design: (Visual Communication, Digital Technologies, 3D Animation) or Bachelor of Arts programs.
Course Electives
Complete two 1 credit point units from the following course electives list A:
| ACD103 | Dance and Screens |
| ACD104 | Exploring Dance Styles From Hip Hop to Bollywood |
| ACD207 | Improvisation in Movement and Dance |
| ACD208 | Dance Beyond the Studio |
| ACI101 | Analogue Photography |
| ACI102 | Digital Photography |
| ACI204 | Photographic Storytelling |
| ACI205 | Photographic Lighting |
| ACP103 | Acting Studio |
| ACP109 | Improvisation in Drama and Performance |
| ACP207 | Dramatic Plot, Story, Character and Theme for Performance |
| ACP208 | Theatre and Creative Technologies |
Work experience
Work-integrated learning opportunities are embedded through the Bachelor of Creative Arts programs with real client briefs, opportunities for client and industry engagement and professional practice. These may be discipline specific or may introduce students to other opportunities in the diverse field of creative arts. This level of engagement occurs at first, second and third year and is core to the course. In particular we have a Creative Careers and Contexts and Exhibition and Performance units where students meet industry practitioners, visit creative industry workplaces, organise and promote a festival of exhibitions and performances and learn the appropriate practical, administrative, marketing and self-management skills required to launch and maintain their careers as creative artists in their chosen discipline. Student will develop a career development strategy that can be used to demonstrate the essential skills and knowledge for a future job application, successful pitch for funding or, development of a self-run project.
Assessment
Assessment takes place at the unit level and has been designed to ensure successful attainment of all the Course Learning Outcomes and corresponding Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes over the duration of the course.
Other Course Information
Course duration - additional information
Delays in completing the placement could mean that the course will take longer to complete than the stated duration.
International students are required to study full-time to complete their course within the duration registered on CRICOS
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Research and research-related study
Independent research components are embedded across a number of units.