BCAVA Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) - Flinders University

Overview

The Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) is a dual award with the Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts (CUA60720) offered by Flinders and the Adelaide College of the Arts at TAFE SA. The dual award requires three years of full-time study, or the equivalent part-time, to complete both qualifications. Students … For more content click the Read More button below.

The Bachelor of Creative Arts (Visual Arts) is a dual award with the Advanced Diploma in Visual Arts (CUA60720) offered by Flinders and the Adelaide College of the Arts at TAFE SA. The dual award requires three years of full-time study, or the equivalent part-time, to complete both qualifications. Students are required to enrol concurrently at both the University and TAFE SA to complete the dual award.

Course offerings

Adelaide CBD

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Student guidance

Study planner

Program of study overview

Program of study notes

Program of study
54 Units

Year 19 Units

Year 29 Units

Option4.5 Units

Select 4.5 units from the following:

The Art of Storytelling

Adaptations: Literature on Screen

Innovative and Creative Thinking: Recognising Opportunities

Greek Mythology: Gods, Heroes and Mortals

Issues in Sociology

Essential Multimedia Design

Option4.5 Units

Year 336 Units

Core27 Units

Option9 Units

Select 4.5 units from the following:

Cultural Policy and the Arts

Dramaturgy and New Writing

Writing in the Twenty-First Century

First Nations Visual Art

Decolonising Institutions: Indigenous Critical Creative Praxis

Homer's Odyssey: Wanderings and Divine Interventions

Aesthetics and the Values of Art

Gender, Media, and Technology

Sociology of Creativity

Visual Thinking and Creativity

Admission requirements

Admission requirements

Aims

The course aims to:

Equip students with the understanding and practical skills that enable them to investigate and develop their artistic practice in a chosen medium in the visual arts
Encourage all students to work conceptually within their chosen medium
Develop students' understanding of the changing social and cultural contexts, and the changing modes of representation and meaning making in the visual arts
Enable students to explore and resolve practical issues and techniques through studio work
Produce graduates capable of the application of logical thought, analysis, and research skills in ways that will enhance both the creative and practical processes required in the production of visual art

Student progression rules

The award of a grade of Fail (F) on more than one occasion in the same topic, may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University's Policy on Student Progress.

Associations

Course/Course specialisation association

Honours - 1 year/Bachelor association