ACV312 - Visual Arts Major Project
Unit details
| Year | 2025 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Previously coded as: | Nil |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Katie Lee |
| Prerequisite: | Must have completed one credit point at level 1 or 2 of an ACA |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 3-hour on-campus seminar per week |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
Content
In this capstone unit, students will focus on realising a final artwork or body of artwork for exhibition, while building a thorough knowledge of professional-practice elements that relate to making and promoting contemporary art exhibitions. The unit will provide the skills and knowledge required to produce a professional outcome, while focusing on the key career and industry contexts into which artists aspire. A principal focus is on how to plan an exhibition outcome that considers concept, process, fabrication, installation, and promotion, and crucially, how each might be achieved over a fixed period of eleven weeks.
Students will develop a resolved artwork, design a professional digital portfolio, and collectively devise, organise and conceive of a promotional strategy for the final exhibition. Key learning tasks will include artistic research, approaches to the integration of multiple disciplines, team management principles, creative methodologies, project development, and pre-production and production management.
Students will then apply appropriate strategies and creative management processes in the realisation of their creative work and final exhibition. Building on previous units that stress artistic process and the assorted stages of art making, this production unit requires students to propose and complete a creative arts project that aspires to the standard of emerging artists, cultural producers, or educators in their chosen industry contexts.
Learning outcomes
| ULO | These are the Unit Learning Outcomes (ULOs) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Alignment to Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Engage with and select artistic precedents, relevant theory and identify historical influences. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Analyse, generate and evaluate solutions to individually framed creative problems through written and studio tasks | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO6: Self-management |
| ULO3 | Produce final artworks to a professional standard | GLO5: Problem solving |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1: Project Proposal and Research Presentation | 1600 words or equivalent | 20% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2: Exhibition of Creative Work | 2000 words or equivalent | 50% | Week 11 |
| Assessment 3: Journal | 800 words or equivalent | 30% | Week 12 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning resource
The texts and reading list for ACV312 can be found via the University Library.
Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
Unit Fee Information
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