Units
The individual subjects inside each degree: what’s taught, how it’s assessed, and when it runs.
2,244 units
| Code | Unit | Faculty | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| AHT2130 | Renaissance to Baroque: Italian art and architecture in context This unit is only offered in Prato (Italy). This unit focuses on the art and architecture of early modern Italy. Key examples of Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque painting, sculpture, architecture, material culture, urbanism and landscape… | Art, Design and Architecture | 2 |
| AHT2135 | Renaissance art and architecture This unit explores the history and theory of Renaissance art and architecture from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries. You will be introduced to the work of artists and architects such as Giotto, Donatello, Alberti, van Eyck, Bottice… | Art, Design and Architecture | 2 |
| AHT2440 | History and theory of photography, film and video This unit surveys the history of photography, film and video from the mid-19th century until today. It introduces important theories of how photography, film and video function socially and artistically, and considers how they relate to one… | Art, Design and Architecture | 2 |
| AHT2530 | Neo-Baroque aesthetics: History and theory This unit focuses on Neo-Baroque aesthetics in contemporary culture and their historical antecedents. The Baroque themes of spectacle, trompe l'oeil excess, and incorporeal experience will be examined with reference to the visual arts from… | Art, Design and Architecture | 2 |
| AHT2712 | Curating: Histories and theories This unit introduces you to key histories and theories of curating from the mid-eighteenth century to the present. You will examine the development of museums, collections, exhibitions, biennales and curatorial practice, with particular att… | Art, Design and Architecture | 2 |
| AHT2722 | Curating: Making exhibitions This unit introduces you to the practical, critical and collaborative dimensions of making exhibitions. As a complement to Curating: Histories and theories, the unit supports you to apply curatorial knowledge through field trips, guest spea… | Art, Design and Architecture | 2 |
| AHT2740 | Australian art This unit offers a broad historical survey of Australian art from European colonisation to the present. Topics examined will be the First Fleet artists, the work of John Glover, the Heidelberg School, Australian modernism, post-War Australi… | Art, Design and Architecture | 2 |
| AHT2882 | Contemporary Asian art and exhibitions This unit introduces you to Asian contemporary art, with a focus on art after 1990. A flourishing art and museum scene in Asia, and heightened international interest, has helped propel Asian art into public visibility. In this context, ther… | Art, Design and Architecture | 2 |
| AHT3001 | Art writing and criticism Art writing and criticism introduces writing about art as a practical, critical and public-facing dimension of art history. You will explore the different registers, genres and venues in which art is discussed today, including academic jour… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3031 | Art and the majority world This unit offers an overview of "non-Western” art and exhibition histories underlined by a decolonising impulse. You will be introduced to art and visual cultures across times, places and cultures, situating art history within the broader w… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3105 | Contemporary international art This unit considers contemporary international art from a variety of perspectives, with each week aligned to a relevant, local exhibition. The unit covers a range of material concerns: sculptural, painterly, filmic, performative, durational… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3130 | Renaissance to Baroque: Italian art and architecture in context This unit is only offered in Prato (Italy). This unit focuses on the art and architecture of early modern Italy. Key examples of Renaissance, Mannerist and Baroque painting, sculpture, architecture, material culture, urbanism and landscape… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3150 | Capstone project 2 This unit supports you to realise and critically evaluate a self-directed research project within art history or curating. Building on the project proposal, research and planning undertaken in Capstone: Project studies 1, you will refine an… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3220 | Curating: Museums, archives, cultural heritage This unit explores the role that art museums, cultural archives and related collecting institutions have played in preserving, interpreting and contesting cultural heritage. You will learn about the origins of these institutions in Europe,… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3440 | History and theory of photography, film and video This unit surveys the history of photography, film and video from the mid-19th century until today. It introduces important theories of how photography, film and video function socially and artistically, and considers how they relate to one… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3530 | Neo-Baroque aesthetics: History and theory This unit focuses on Neo-Baroque aesthetics in contemporary culture and their historical antecedents. The Baroque themes of spectacle, trompe l'oeil excess, and incorporeal experience will be examined with reference to the visual arts from… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3740 | Australian art This unit offers a broad historical survey of Australian art from European colonisation to the present. Topics examined will be the First Fleet artists, the work of John Glover, the Heidelberg School, Australian modernism, post-War Australi… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AHT3882 | Contemporary Asian art and exhibitions This unit introduces you to Asian contemporary art, with a focus on art after 1990. A flourishing art and museum scene in Asia, and heightened international interest, has helped propel Asian art into public visibility. In this context, ther… | Art, Design and Architecture | 3 |
| AMU1010 | Introduction to public relations This unit will introduce you to the field of public relations. It will provide you with an understanding of the value of public relations to different types of organisations such as corporations, governments and not-for-profit entities as w… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1017 | Academic literacies This unit is designed to introduce you to the literacies required for academic study in their degree courses. Language use at university differs from 'generic' language. These differences will be explored through discussion and practice. Yo… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1018 | Introduction to academic research In this unit you will examine the fundamentals of quantitative capabilities and digital literacies required for academic study in your degree courses. The ability to source, evaluate, interpret and represent data using digital resources and… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1055 | Introduction to global studies In this unit, you will explore global studies as a multi-disciplinary field that focuses on the various global (or macro) processes that make up the world and impact on people, communities, states and the planet. We consider how various eco… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1160 | Digital culture and society The rise of digital technologies reshapes our self-perception, cultural identity, social interactions, political participation, and the boundaries between public and private life in our interconnected global and digital landscape. In this c… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1163 | Media and global mobility In this unit you will be introduced to the key technological features inherent in digital media's mobility, followed by an examination of theoretical concepts and contextual backgrounds related to global mobility. You will examine how these… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1223 | Film, television and screen studies: Approaches The unit uses key critical approaches developed within Film, Television and Screen Studies to better understanding the aesthetic and political dimensions of moving image texts. While Film, Television and Screen Studies: Forms looks inwards,… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1224 | Film, television and screen studies: Forms In this unit, you will examines the techniques that filmmakers use to create the vast range of stories, meanings, themes, emotions and sensations that moving images can possess. While Film, Television and Screen Studies: Approaches, looks o… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1277 | Media studies In this unit you will be introduced to the study of media in terms of the relationships between industry, texts and audiences. You will explore areas of study that include news production, textual analysis, media ownership and diversity, fi… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1278 | Communication technologies and practices This unit introduces the study of communications technologies by focusing on analyses of audiences, effects and technology. You will explore the social uses and practices associated with traditional and new communication technologies. Areas… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1309 | Introduction to sexuality studies This unit shows how sexuality is the primary analytical category across multidisciplinary fields of study in Asian and global contexts, e.g. culture or the Arts, media and communications, business or economy, education or pedagogy, sociolog… | Arts | 1 |
| AMU1310 | Introduction to gender studies This unit shows how gender is the primary analytical category across multidisciplinary fields of study in Asian and global contexts. These fields of study include but are not limited to: culture or the Arts, media and communications, busine… | Arts | 1 |