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Art History

Unit of study table (Table A)

This page was first published on 15 November 2023 and was last amended on 28 November 2023.
View details of the changes below.

Major

A major in Art History requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 18 credit points of 3000-level selective units
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor

A minor in Art History requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 12 credit points of 2000-level core or selective units
(iii) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units

 

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

1000 level units of study

Core
ARHT1001
Style and Substance: Introducing Art History
6  
ARHT1002
Shock of the Now: Global Art Since 1900
6  

2000 level units of study

Core
ARHT2680
Why Art Matters
6 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History
Selective
ARHT2602
Romanticism and Visual Art

6 P ARHT1001 and ARHT1002
ARHT2614
Pollock to Psychedelia

6 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in American Studies
ARHT2616
High Renaissance Art
6 N ARHT2016
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies
ARHT2618
French Art, Salon to Cezanne
6 N ARHT2018
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies
ARHT2636
Contemporary Indigenous Art
6 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Indigenous Studies
N ARHT2036
ARHT2640
Contemporary Turns in Asian Art
6 N ARHT2040
P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Asian Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies
ARHT2671
Art, Race and Resistance 1788-Now

6 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History
N ARHT2071
ARHT2674
Fashion and Dress: Past and Present
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History
ARHT2676
Planetary Art: Nature, Ecology, Environment
6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies
ARHT2677
Art, Memory, and Identity

6 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History
ARHT2678
Islamic Visual Cultures: China to Spain

6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Critical Studies or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Visual Arts
ARHT2681
Global Modernisms: Radical Images

6 P 12 credit points at 1000 level in ARHT

3000 level units of study

Selective
ARHT3617
Modern Art: Europe and the Islamic World
6 N ARHT2617
P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002)
ARHT3633
Australian Art: Mainstream to Marginal

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Film Studies or 6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002
N ARHT2632
ARHT3646
The Asian Modern: Art in East Asia

6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Asian Studies or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and (CASF1001 and CASF1002))
N ARHT2646
ARHT3662
On Photography and the Wretched Screen

6 N ARHT2662
P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History
ARHT3663
Gender and Sexuality in Asian Art History
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Critical Studies
ARHT3673
Art and the Aesthetics of the Everyday
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002
ARHT3675
Objects and Problems at Chau Chak Wing Museum
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and (CASF1001 and CASF1002))
ARHT3678
Text, Image, Sound: Islamic Book Arts
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002
ARHT3679
First Nations Art
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History, or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002)
ARHT3680
A Material World: Cultures of Design
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History
ARHT3681
Fieldwork: Art and the City
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or 6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002
ARHT3682
Art, Cities and Early Modern Worlds
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002)
ARHT3683
Sensation: Encountering Contemporary Art
6 P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Art History, or (6 credit points at 2000 level in Art History and CASF1001 and CASF1002)
N ARHT2024
ARIN3630
Digital Arts
6 N ARIN2630
P 12 credit points at 2000 level in units with as ARIN or ARHT or FILM or DECO prefix or (6 credit points at 1000 level and 6 credit points at 2000 level in units of study with SEIN prefix)

Interdisciplinary project unit of study

If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major.
If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major.
If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major.
FASS3333
Industry and Community Project
6 C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
P 72 credit points
FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6 P Completion of at least 90 credit points

Post-publication amendments

Date
Original publication
Post-publication amendment
28/11/2023 ARHT2640 title published as:
Contemporary Asian Art
ARHT2640 title amended to:
Contemporary Turns in Asian Art