Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts

Diploma

Key details

Degree Type

Diploma

Course Code

CUA60715

About this course

The Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts is designed to provide graduates with para-professional level technical, creative and conceptual skills to originate, realise and exhibit a substantial body of resolved work that expresses their own creative vision. Visual artists work within and across many mediums, and their practice may incorporate digital art, drawing and illustration, painting, photomedia, printmaking, public art or even sculpture.

Graduates will have a strong foundation in art theory and history, the ability to engage in critical discourse and to debate one's own work and the work of others.

Career pathways

Graduates will have well developed technical and conceptual skills and be able to:

develop concepts and their own creative vision
develop high level skills in drawing
develop high level skills in a chosen medium
manage exhibitions of their work
engage in critical discourse about their own work and the work of others
understand the historical and social context artists work in.

Course structure

Students are required to complete the 12 units of study listed below. Classes will be face-to-face practical workshops, individual guided projects, tutorials and online activities.

Credit for prior study or work

Credit is granted in recognition of previous study and/or experience and allows students to gain advanced standing towards their course. Applicants are assessed on a case-by-case basis. Learn more about credit.

Swinburne University of Technology