1. Handbook
  2. Postgraduate Diploma in Arts
  3. Informal Specialisation
  4. PD-ARTS Art History
  5. Structure

PD-ARTS Art History // Structure

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Structure

The Postgraduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:

  • thesis (50 points)
  • one compulsory subject (12.5 points)
  • 25 points from the advanced research seminars in Art History
  • 12.5 points other elective subjects

Total 100 points

Please note: the thesis must be taken over two consecutive semesters

Subject Options

Thesis Subject

50 points

Please note: the thesis must be taken over two consecutive semesters

Code Name Study period Credit Points
AHIS40021 Art History Thesis
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 25

Compulsory Subject

12.5 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
MULT50001 Research Principles and Practices
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

Advanced Research in Art History Subjects

Students must select 25 points from the Advanced Research Seminars in Art History

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
AHIS90008 Writing About Art and the Moving Image Not available in 2017 12.5

Other Elective Subjects

Students must select one subjects (12.5 points) from the following list of other elective subjects

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

Links

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

Last updated: 18 December 2020