Art History // Structure

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Structure

50 credit points

Duration: 6 months full-time / 1 year part-time

Program Requirements -

  • two core subjects (25 points)
  • elective subjects (25 points)

Total 50 points

Subject Options

Core Subjects

25 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
AHIS40002 Indigenous Photography, New Media, Film Not available in 2017 12.5
AHIS40005 Trauma & Spectacle: Postwar European Art Not available in 2017 12.5
AHIS40006 Postcolonial Visual Art
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS40007 The Artist's Body Not available in 2017 12.5
AHIS40008 Twentieth-Century Italian Art: 1909-1969
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS40013 Contemporary Art in China
June (Off Campus)
 25
AHIS40015 Histories and Theories of Conservation Not available in 2017 12.5
AHIS40016 Aboriginal Art in the Northern Territory
June (Off Campus)
 12.5
AHIS40019 The Book: Late Antiquity to Renaissance
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS40020 Museology in Florence
November (Off Campus)
 12.5
AHIS40022 Studying Contemporary Art Overseas Not available in 2017 25
AHIS90008 Writing About Art and the Moving Image Not available in 2017 12.5

Elective Subjects

25 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
ACUR90005 Interpreting Exhibitions
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS90004 The Print Room
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS90005 History and Philosophy of Museums
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS90007 Biennales, Triennales and Documentas
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
AHIS90008 Writing About Art and the Moving Image Not available in 2017 12.5
AMGT90024 Cultural Festivals and Special Events
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Links

http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication

Last updated: 4 March 2025