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Doctor of Philosophy - Victorian College of the Arts (DR-PHILVCA) // Course structure
About this course
Coordinator
VCA Associate Director (Research)
Contact
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: Graduate Research Hub
Future students:
- Further information: VCA website
- Email: vcamcm-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au
- Email: vcamcm-research@unimelb.edu.au
Course structure
The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at the VCA is a program of independent creative arts research, for which both traditional and practice-led PhD research modes are offered. The PhD involves a substantial piece of original and independent research, pursued under the guidance of Supervisors with expertise in your area of research interest.
Students are required to complete CREA90001 Research Methods 1 in their first semester of candidature.
The normal length of a doctoral thesis is 80,000 - 100,000 words. In this degree, a PhD thesis may take the form of performance and/or corpus of creative work (please refer to the Intended Learning Outcomes above), plus a dissertation of 40,000 - 50,000 words which aims to address, elucidate and contextualise the work.
Subject options
| Code | Name | Study period | Credit Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| CREA90001 | Methods in Artistic Research |
Semester 1 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Southbank)
Semester 2 (Early-Start) (On Campus - Southbank)
|
12.5 |
Last updated: 13 November 2024