Course Title: Diversified Projects

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Diversified Projects

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
VART3440	City Campus	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	Sem 2 2012, Sem 2 2016, Sem 2 2017
VART3534	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	Offsh3 16

Flexible Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
VART3534	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	OFFSe22018 (HA22)
VART3534	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	OFFSe22019 (HA22)
VART3534	Hong Kong Arts Centre	Undergraduate	340H Art	Face-to-Face	OFFSe22020 (HA22)

Course Coordinator: Dr Rhett D'Costa

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 2970

Course Coordinator Email: rhett.dcosta@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: RMIT Melbourne Campus, bld2, level 3, room 09

Course Coordinator Availability: by appointment via email

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

VART 3439 Transformative Studio Practice

Course Description

This course enables you to develop and complete a resolved body of works relevant to the broader directions of your art practice within a culturally diverse context.

You will extend and build upon your ideas and processes explored in VART3439 Transformative Studio Practice.

You will develop individual projects and student work proposals that are framed by contemporary ideas about sites of production, modes of dissemination and the construction of meaning. The objectives are to produce a resolved body of works including appropriate support materials and research that establishes the social and cultural framework for a personal contemporary art practice.

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Capability Development

In this course you will develop the following program capabilities:

• find creative solutions to constraints and challenges in a fine art context
• effectively communicate via artistic production in a range of media and modes with awareness of and sensitivity to a range of local and global contexts and cultures
• develop a critically reflective arts practice, in order to continually develop, change and plan for a future that is both informed and improved by arts practice
• engage in autonomous and continued learning, apply new theories of practice and embrace new developments in cultural/artistic production
• invent, design and construct a pro-active and critically relevant career as a member of the cultural and creative industries

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course you will be able to:

• initiate and develop research based work practices that lead to a personal direction within a contemporary art context
• produce resolved art work in a variety of media that is appropriate to specialised projects and which show an engagement with the cultural and conceptual contexts of your proposed area of production
• utilise ideas of visual research as creative practice and write a simple studio work proposal
• follow through the planning, critical analysis and reflection upon work and its relations to the broader field of fine art through written texts, contextual journals/workbooks and appropriate visual documentation
• critically reflect on your work and the work of others produced within this course

Overview of Learning Activities

In this course you will engage with the studio as a process of creation and as a site of practice and enquiry. It is studio based which means your learning is activated through experimenting, exploring, testing, envisioning, observing, and playing with a range of materials and art making processes and methods in a studio environment to develop you as an art practitioner.

You will engage in a range of learning activities such as making works, experimenting with materials, practice based research, workshops, presentations, demonstrations, lectorials, gallery and site visits, reflective writing, group discussions, consultations on your studio work and occupational health and safety demonstrations.

You will also receive verbal and/or written feedback from academic staff and peers through a variety of consultations and tutorials. This feedback will help you to track how your learning is progressing against the specified learning outcomes and capabilities for this course. In classes you will engage in critical reflection and reviews.

Overview of Learning Resources

Melbourne Campus
RMIT University will provide you with a range of resources and tools to engage in this course, including studio and workshop facilities, online systems and professional equipment specific to your studio area. A selected range of supplies are available, as well as support from technical staff. You will also have access to a wide range of online and hardcopy resources through RMIT University Library.

RMIT University is in close proximity to a broad range of galleries and cultural venues which you will be expected to visit as part of your course. Professional studio specific workshops, labs and suppliers are also readily accessible.

Hong Kong Campus
The Hong Kong Art School will provide you with a range of resources and tools to engage in this course, including studio and workshop facilities, online systems and professional equipment specific to your studio area. You will also have access to a wide range of online resources through RMIT University Library.

The Hong Kong Art School is in close proximity to a broad range of galleries and cultural venues which you will be expected to visit as part of your course. Professional studio specific workshops, labs and suppliers are also readily accessible.
 

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the learning outcomes of this course and on your development against the program capabilities. The work resulting from your studio practice will be presented for assessment. It may consist of a range of works and/or presentation that either respond to a project outline or are self-directed and will be assessed by academic staff.

Assessment will occur for both the intensive and regular teaching weeks. Assessment for Intensive weeks will be 30% of your final grade and regular teaching weeks will compose of 70% of your final grade.

 

Assessment for both intensive and regular week will include:

Folio of Resolved Artworks 40%

Produce artwork that demonstrates an ability to:

• Realise conceptual development
• Sustain engagement with projects and studio
• Resolve artwork through the development of ideas and making
• Engage inventive and experimental approaches to projects

Application of Studio Methods 40%

Realise responses to projects that demonstrate:

• Methodological proficiencies in your studio major
• Links between ideas and the use of materials and processes
• Experimentation with studio methods, techniques and media
• Effective and safe use of media specific tools and equipment

Critical Reflection and Documentation 20%

Through tutorials, ePortfolio and/or visual diaries:

• Engage in critical dialogue, discuss and critique your own artwork and the artwork of others
• Identify, transcribe and analyse feedback and show how it and your own reflections have been responded to through the making process
• Professionally document the conceptual, material and technical development of your artwork
• Identify and discuss through reports, reviews and journals, cultural influences in your artwork

 

Detailed Assessment tasks and dates for assessment submissions for intensive week and regular teaching weeks will be provided for students through the online system and/or through student email. At the conclusion of assessments, an assessment feedback rubric will be provided for each student through the online system.

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the Studio Coordinator or the Disability Liaison Unit if you would like to find out more.

An assessment charter summarises your responsibilities as an RMIT student as well as those of your teachers.

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies and procedures which are described and referenced in a single document.