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Art and the Botanical (FINA20044)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Summer Term
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Contact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
February
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
Contact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | Summer Term February Winter Term July |
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Fees | Look up fees |
This practice-based drawing subject focuses on developing skills and techniques in botanical drawing, using drawing and watercolour media. Students will be introduced to specialist botanical drawing techniques, working from both live plants and botanical specimens from the University Cultural Collections (including the University of Melbourne Herbarium (MELU) and the University of Melbourne System Garden). Lectures and writing tasks that explore the botanical in historic and contemporary visual art will complement the drawing program. By the end of the subject, students should have developed a comprehensive folio of exercises and finished works exploring the botanical in both its living and preserved states, highlighting how artistic practice can be used as a space for exploration and discovery.
Though this subject is designed for students who have little or no drawing experience, it will also suit students who have previously undertaken a visual art Breadth subject or similar.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an understanding of, and productively apply, the knowledge and skills required to effectively represent the botanical both from direct observation of living and preserved specimens, and through further studio-based experimentation;
- demonstrate an applied effort and positive development in the skills required to effectively represent the botanical (drawings to be dated so that development can be observed in the final folio);
- explore, articulate and critically analyse (during class, in the visual diary and in writing) the ways in which botany has been explored in both historic and contemporary art, and how artistic production can be used to examine the botanical in both living and preserved states.
Generic skills
- Display an awareness of the graphic possibilities of a variety of concepts, materials and practices;
- exhibit evidence of skill development both pictorially and technically as a means of independent image making;
- indicate evidence of individual research in the relevant area of practice;
- demonstrate practical skills in respect of critical analysis, problem solving;
- demonstrate capacities for artistic imagination, creativity, transformation and interpretation;
- demonstrate an open, independent and inquiring attitude towards contemporary cultural developments and new ideas.
Last updated: 15 February 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 15 February 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Essay - 1000 words; due 8-10 days after final class (25%)
| At the end of the assessment period | 25% |
Folio: A comprehensive folio that includes completed work made for set exercises/projects, experimentation and related materials, and that demonstrates an appropriate level of understanding, development and application of the knowledge, skills and conceptual areas addressed in the subject; due 8-10 days after final class (75%) | At the end of the assessment period | 75% |
Ongoing feedback is provided to students through the subject's duration via individual and group discussion. Additionally, a progress review will take place midway through the subject, taking into account the following criteria: course engagement; work development. Intensive delivery: day 2 to 3 of intensive. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: Students must attend at least 80% of all scheduled classes for the folio and essay to be accepted for assessment purposes. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 15 February 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Celeste Chandler Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 29 January 2020 to 5 February 2020 Last self-enrol date 30 January 2020 Census date 7 February 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 February 2020 Assessment period ends 15 February 2020 Summer Term contact information
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and MusicContact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
- February
Principal coordinator Celeste Chandler Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 6 February 2020 to 13 February 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 February 2020 Census date 14 February 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 18 February 2020 Assessment period ends 24 February 2020 February contact information
Coordinator
Celeste Chandler
Breadth Coordinator for Visual Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts and MusicContact
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment (including quota), class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, attendance or subject matter enquiries:
Celeste Chandler
- Winter Term
Coordinator Colleen Ahern Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 6 July 2020 to 13 July 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 July 2020 Census date 10 July 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 17 July 2020 Assessment period ends 22 July 2020 - July
Coordinator Colleen Ahern Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 14 July 2020 to 21 July 2020 Last self-enrol date 15 July 2020 Census date 17 July 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 26 July 2020 Assessment period ends 1 August 2020
Time commitment details
136 hours (including 36 contact hours and 100 non-contact hours).
Additional delivery details
Quota
This subject has an enrolment quota for each availability, and places are limited. Places will be allocated until the quota is reached. Enrolment in this subject is not guaranteed.
Quota sizes are listed below:
SUMMER TERM and FEBRUARY:
Enrolment quota of 44 students.
WINTER TERM and JULY:
Enrolment quota of 69 students.
Last updated: 15 February 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
N/A
- Incidental costs
Incidental Fees will apply for the purpose of accessing the studios/workshops and purchase of materials as relevant.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 15 February 2024