Master of Fine Arts (Indigenous Arts & Culture) (MR-FAIAC) // Attributes, outcomes and skills

Intended learning outcomes

The Master of Fine Arts develops the following skills in its graduate researchers:

An understanding of cultural safety and effective ways to work and conduct research within cultural frameworks

• the ability to engage in independent and contextually-informed artistic practice;
• an ability to initiate research projects and to formulate viable research questions;
• a demonstrated capacity to design, conduct and report independent and original research on a closely-defined project;
• an ability to manage time to maximise the quality of research;
• an understanding of the major contours of international research in the research area;
• a capacity for critical evaluation of relevant scholarly literature and artistic practice;
• well-developed and flexible problem-solving abilities appropriate to the discipline;
• the capacity to communicate effectively the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication;
• an understanding of and facility with scholarly conventions in the discipline area;
• a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship;
• a capacity to cooperate with other researchers;
• an ability to manage information effectively, including the application of computer systems and software where appropriate to the student's field of study:

Graduate attributes