The World in the Artist 2A

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

tutorial

20 hours per semester

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None required

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For the purposes of considering requests for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirments for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.
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Seminars are offered at second year level. Second year students attend a one-hour seminar per week selected from an available pool of approximately 18 seminar topics. Most seminars in semester one are repeated in second semester.

• To offer each student the opportunity to enhance his or her critical, analytical, research, literacy and presentation skills.
• To offer each student the opportunity for cross-disciplinary collaborative encounters and practice.

Contribution and participation in seminar activities (25%). Written work 1500 words (75%). Hurdle requirement - 80% attendance.

Some seminars have a reader available for purchase from the Student Centre.

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This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

At the completion of the subject students should be able to:

• demonstrate capacities for artistic imagination, creativity, transformation and interpretation;
• demonstrate a flexible and innovative approach to the national and international challenges for the professional visual artist in the 21st century, and
• demonstrate an open, independent and inquiring attitude towards contemporary cultural developments and new ideas.