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Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts

  • National Code: CUA60715
  • CRICOS Code: 090491G

This qualification is for people who want to work as an independent professional visual arts practitioners who have a command of wide-ranging, highly specialised technical, creative and conceptual skills and knowledge. These skills will allow you to extend and refine your practice to a point where you are able to originate, realise and exhibit a substantial body of resolved work that expresses your individual creative vision. The ability to engage in critical discourse and debate about your own work and the work of others is underpinned by a mature engagement with a range of theoretical concepts and historical perspectives.

You will be working in a wide range of contexts across the arts and other industries. You are often sole practitioner but may also hold positions in government or commercial organisations, bringing the visual arts perspective to areas such as business, community services and science. At this level, you may also teach art in a range of different community contexts.


Subject area: Fine Arts

Course code:
R10420		 Course fee:
A$10,080 		1 Year

ENTRY REQUIREMENTS

  • Prerequisite: Diploma of Visual Arts (R10416)
  • Academic IELTS 6.0 or TOEFL (iBT) 60 or TAFE NSW English for Academic Purposes (EAP)

    • COURSE INTAKES

    FOR 2020
    Kingswood Total course fee: A$10,080 Enrol: Feb , Jul
    Meadowbank Total course fee: A$10,080 Enrol: Feb

    FOR 2021
    Kingswood Total course fee: A$10,080 Enrol: Feb , Jul
    Meadowbank Total course fee: A$10,080 Enrol: Feb
     

    COURSE STRUCTURE AND UNITS

    To receive the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts students must complete all core units and, if available, a range of additional units.

    Note: Additional units contain compulsory and elective units which may vary between each semester and campus, and will depend on a number of considerations including the packaging rules for the qualification and demand for the unit.

    CORE UNITS ADDITIONAL UNITS

    ARTICULATIONS

     

    ADDITIONAL COSTS

    Course fees and duration can vary based on the Institute you want to study at, the entry requirements for the course, and the year you will begin study.

    Additional costs for uniforms, equipment, textbooks and materials (if applicable) range from A$300 - $1,000 per course.

    CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

    Working within and across many media, practicing within:

    • ceramics, digital art, glasswork, drawing and illustration, jewellery making, painting, photomedia, printmaking, public art, sculpture, textiles or wood design sectors
    • involvement in installation and public artwork
    • teaching in a range of community settings

    To receive the Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts students must complete all core units and, if available, a range of additional units.

    Note: Additional units contain compulsory and elective units which may vary between each semester and campus, and will depend on a number of considerations including the packaging rules for the qualification and demand for the unit.

    • Research and apply concepts and theories of creativity
    • Extend professional expertise with drawing and other visual representation tools
    • Establish and maintain safe creative practice
    • Originate a body of independent creative work
    • Engage in the business of creative practice
    • Publicly present a body of own creative work
    • Extend cultural research expertise
    • Originate and develop concepts
    • Implement design solutions
    • Establish, negotiate and refine a design brief
    • Manage design realisation
    • Research global design trends
    • Research and apply design theory
    • Create observational drawings
    • Select and refine a specialised drawing technique
    • Research and apply light and colour
    • Work with the human form in creative practice
    • Refine 2-D design ideas and processes
    • Refine 3-D design ideas and processes
    • Refine model making skills
    • Develop and refine metalworking techniques
    • Manage kiln operations
    • Make moulds and casts
    • Work with photomedia in creative practice
    • Make mixed media artworks
    • Refine carving techniques for creative work
    • Manage specialised finishing processes
    • Extend professional expertise across new art forms and media
    • Refine ceramics techniques
    • Refine throwing techniques
    • Refine handbuilding techniques
    • Develop and apply ceramic glazes
    • Design innovative products
    • Refine digital art techniques
    • Refine drawing techniques
    • Refine glassworking techniques
    • Refine kiln cast glass techniques
    • Develop professional illustrations
    • Refine illustration techniques
    • Realise an installation work
    • Refine painting techniques
    • Apply visual communication theories to photo imaging practice
    • Explore the descriptive and emotive nature of photo lighting
    • Collaborate in professional creative projects
    • Evolve ideas for professional creative work
    • Extend expertise in a specialised art form to professional level
    • Refine printmaking techniques
    • Create works of art for public spaces
    • Realise a public art project
    • Refine sculptural techniques
    • Produce woven tapestry samples
    • Design and produce woven tapestry products
    • Design and produce experimental textiles
    • Design and produce printed textiles
    • Develop textile designs using computer based design programs
    • Research commercial development of textiles
    • Create and produce textile designs for commercial production
    • Apply traditional techniques to jewellery and 3D object production
    • Plan, conduct and supervise a jewellery and object exhibition
    • Oversee jewellery or object design production
    • Write complex documents
    • Establish systems that support innovation
    • Build and sustain an innovative work environment
    • Manage intellectual property to protect and grow business
    • Develop and cultivate collaborative partnerships and relationships
    • Undertake project work
    • Establish legal and risk management requirements of small business
    • Plan small business finances
    • Market the small business
    • Undertake small business planning
    • Monitor and manage small business operations
    • Manage small business finances
    • Manage personal, family, cultural and business obligations
    • Design a digital action plan for small business
    • Develop workplace policy and procedures for sustainability
    • Manage copyright arrangements
    • Source funding for projects
    • Establish and maintain environmentally sustainable creative practice
    • Critique cultural works
    • Build and launch a small business website