PD-ARTS Art History (PD-ARTS_INFSPC_2)

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Overview

Please note that PD-ARTS Postgraduate Diploma in Arts will no longer be accepting new applications as of the 1st January 2015, the program from 2015 will be offered as GDA-ARTS Graduate Diploma in Arts (Advanced). Please refer to the correct handbook entry for program information for commencing students from 2015.

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Intended learning outcomes

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Last updated: 4 March 2025

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	No longer available

Compulsory Subject

12.5 points

Code	Name	Study period	Credit Points
MULT50001	Research Principles and Practices	Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Parkville) Semester 2 (Early-Start) (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
		Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville) Not available in 2020 Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville) No longer available
AHIS40002	Indigenous Australian Art Histories	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
AHIS40005	Trauma & Spectacle: Postwar European Art	Not available in 2020	12.5
AHIS40006	Postcolonial Visual Art	Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
AHIS40007	The Artist's Body	Not available in 2020	12.5
AHIS40008	Twentieth-Century Italian Art: 1909-1969	Not available in 2020	12.5
AHIS40013	Contemporary Art in China	Not available in 2020	25
AHIS40015	Histories and Theories of Conservation	No longer available
AHIS40016	Aboriginal Art in the Northern Territory	Not available in 2020	12.5
AHIS40019	The Book: Late Antiquity to Renaissance	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5
AHIS40020	Museology in Florence	Not available in 2020	12.5
AHIS90008	Writing About Art and the Moving Image	Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)	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 1 (On Campus - Parkville)	12.5

Links

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