Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Visual Arts and Design

Visual Arts Practice Program

The Visual Arts Practice units are offered primarily to Education students wanting to satisfy the requirements for minor studies of their course.

The units are also available to students outside of the School of Visual Arts & Design, wanting to do an elective. Availability of these units is subject to the number of student enrolments (i.e. class size) as well as staff and timetable availability.

The units offer students the opportunity for diversification across a range of Visual Arts disciplines.

Students will be provided with a specifically designed programme that aims at developing a broad art skill base pitched at an achievable level. The emphasis is on building students confidence directed toward encouraging conceptual awareness and design skills, technical competence and experimentation with various materials, media and processes.

Education students will also be introduced to classroom management and safety issues relevant to each of the discipline areas.

Recommended sequence for Visual Arts Practice units (for Education students)

• All four disciplines of Ceramics (VPA1APA), Drawing (VPA1APB), Painting (VPA2APC) and Printmaking (VAP2APD) will be offered as foundational studies.
• Students are given the opportunity to advance to a higher skill level in two out of the four disciplines offered, Drawing and Ceramics.

Visual Arts Practice E (VPA3APE) - Prerequisites: Visual Arts Practice B (VPA1APB)
Visual Arts Practice F (VPA3APF) - Prerequisites: Visual Arts Practice A (VPA1APA)

• The recommended sequence in the table above does not apply to non-Education students and the Visual Arts Practice units A, B, C & D may be undertaken in any order. Prerequisites still apply for the Visual Arts Practice units E & F.

Unit Descriptions.

For unit descriptions follow the the Unit Code links in the above table.

Contact person:           
Julia McCormick (Visual Arts Practice Coordinator)
E-mail: j.mccormick@latrobe.edu.au
Phone: 03 5444 7212
Room: VA2.19