Found 324 study abroad units
KVB217 Visual Arts Open Studio 3
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Visual Arts
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit integrates creative practice methods and codes, self-directed socio-cultural research, and personal reflection, in order to consolidate a studio-based art practice. It develops a pervasive sense of creative inquiry, self-motivation, self-reliance, and an openness to new ideas and aesthetic experiences. By providing support and structure for these activities and developments, the unit aims to habituate these essential qualities of artistic practice. The open-ended conditions of current creative practices - their processes, reception, and contribution to society - are diverse, increasingly complex, and inherently multi-layered. The Open Studio model of contemporary visual art practice provides a platform to build a robust and flexible creative skillset. This unit foregrounds art thinking, speculative inquiry and combinatory play with the material, conceptual and contextual dimensions of creative practice in order to nurture creative literacy and intelligence.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
KVB222 Spatial Art: Object and Site
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Visual Arts
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This intermediate visual art unit aims to develop your visual and spatial literacy by exploring the theory and creation of site-specific installations. Through both directed and self-directed practical activities, you will develop an engaged, spatial art practice that is grounded in the theory and practice of site-specific art and is framed by contemporary Indigenous and environmental perspectives. You will learn how to produce meaningful public artworks that are actively responsive to their site, and that can successfully engage in contemporary contexts and debates. The knowledge and skills you gain will have a rich array of applications for your subsequent creative arts practice.
KVB223 Post 1989 Art
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Visual Arts
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit introduces key ideas and styles of art practice that have emerged since 1989 in a global economy. It develops knowledge and skills that are relevant to cultural literature and visual analysis. It furthers your expertise in problem solving, creative thinking and effective communication of knowledge in a variety of contexts and modes. As a creative industries student, it is important to possess an informed knowledge of art and culture since 1989, including the rise of the experience economy and the centrality of entertainment and post-avant-garde art in global creative industries. The concepts and knowledge gained will aid you to organise and evaluate information, synthesise research material into a coherent form, and write and verbally articulate ideas. This unit is intended to provide a foundation skill-base for you in Creative Industries and is applicable to all disciplines including art criticism, arts practice, architecture and fashion.
KVB227 Visual Arts Open Studio 4
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Visual Arts
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit focuses on the elaboration and sustained development of an individualised artistic practice within a creative community of practitioners. It foregrounds art thinking, speculative inquiry and combinatory play with the material, conceptual and contextual dimensions of creative practice in order to nurture an expanded and nuanced level of creative literacy and intelligence. The open-ended conditions of current creative practices, their processes, reception, and contribution to society, are extremely diverse, increasingly complex, and inherently multi-layered. The Open Studio model provides a unique and ideally suited position from which to understand these factors and develop a relevant creative skillset. This unit furthers a sense of creative inquiry, self-motivation, self-reliance, and an openness to new ideas and aesthetic experiences. .
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
KVB317 Visual Arts Open Studio 5
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Visual Arts
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides conceptual frameworks and practical experience in the Open Studio in order to refine critical, creative and analytical thinking in an integrated, transmedia creative practice. It addresses effective communication in a variety of professional contexts and modes. The conditions of contemporary art practices, their production, reception and contribution to society are diverse, complex and multi-layered. To successfully navigate this environment, professional practitioners require strong self-advocacy skills and the ability to communicate an informed, independent position in various contexts. In this final year unit, you will undertake self-directed, intensive study in the Open Studio, supported by research into a broad range of artists' practices and contemporary art theory. The Open Studio is a creative community, which foregrounds art thinking, speculative inquiry and combinatory play with the material, conceptual and contextual dimensions of creative practice.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
KVB327 Visual Arts Open Studio 6
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Visual Arts
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides conceptual frameworks and practical experience in the Open Studio, in order to synthesise critical, creative and analytical thinking, in an independent, professionally ready, creative practice. It addresses effective communication, presentation and advocacy skills for the variety of contexts and modes you will engage with in the professional industry. The conditions of contemporary art practices, their production, reception and contribution to society are extremely diverse, increasingly complex and multi-layered. Your sustained critical involvement and increasing commitment to conceptual and creative pursuits will be supported by intensive research into artists' practices and contemporary theory. The Open Studio is a creative community, which foregrounds art thinking, speculative inquiry and combinatory play with the material, conceptual and contextual dimensions of creative practice.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
KWB104 Writing the Short Story
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
The writing of short stories has traditionally been a starting place for writers to begin developing their craft. Via the short story, this unit explores the elements of fiction such as character, voice, setting, plot, dialogue, point of view and modulation, and helps you acquire and practice skills in creative writing. In this unit you will also learn to analyse literary writing, in particular the short story, for craft elements in a way that informs and illuminates your own work. In addition to lectures, tutorial based peer-critique workshops are a central part of this unit. Within them, in a guided and structured way, you will get and give feedback on the stories as they are being written.
KWB113 Introduction to Creative Writing
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides the fundamental skills for writing fiction and poetry as well as the basic theoretical background that underpins them. It looks at the development of these literary forms as a way of understanding how a practitioner might best approach both the writing and critical analysis of them in the contemporary context. It develops a critical understanding of your own and others’ approaches to writing life. You will be encouraged to develop the skills required for professional writing through a series of tasks that introduce key concepts such as characterisation, constructing a scene, and writing dialogue.
KWB116 Creative Non-Fiction
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
The ability to recognise, analyse and use core types of non-fiction writing is an important part of the professional writer's practice and a highly useful aspect to develop early in a writing career. Creative non-fiction allows writers to combine real life stories with the creative writing techniques employed in fiction, and develops writing skills in a variety of non-fiction written modes and publishing contexts. These include personal essay and humorous writing, life writing and travel literature, and reviewing of books, film, music, and food. This unit encourages you to apply the creative writing techniques of these forms to your areas of interest, and has an industry focus in equipping you with practical and analytical skills in a range of non-fiction creative writing genres.
KWB117 Australian Voices: Writing and Practice
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
The ability to recognise, analyse and engage with key aspects of one’s national writing culture is an important part of a professional writer's practice. This unit analyses works of contemporary Australian writing focusing on how writing culture in Australia is positioned in terms of industry, genre, and changing concepts of authorship practice. This unit equips you with creative writing and analytical skills in a range of Australian contexts. It offers reading and discussion of contemporary prize-winning works and an understanding of the writing and broader cultural contexts of their publication.
KWB118 Swords and Spaceships: Writing Genre
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit surveys current trends in genre writing and popular fiction with a focus on writing for reader engagement. You will have the opportunity to develop a piece of writing that makes use of the techniques of your chosen genre and that reflects the concerns and themes appropriate to your genre. It includes focused writing exercises that will enhance the skills needed to develop, research, and write a genre text. It also aims to help you develop an understanding of genre theory. The unit develops your critical understanding of your own and others’ approaches to the writing life, and the theories of genre that underpin those approaches.
KWB211 Creative Writing: Style and Technique
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit is a masterclass in literary style. Each week in this unit we will look at how one writer produces a particular technique or effect well, we will unpack at a language level exactly what they are doing, and then we will use this understanding to produce a written piece for the week employing that technique. In essence, this unit provides an opportunity to develop different writing techniques through guided writing exercises and theoretical analyses of texts with an emphasis on style and effect. Here you move beyond the basic elements of fiction and develop advanced techniques in creative and professional writing at a low, language-oriented level. Intensive tutorial-based work, self-directed creative practice, guided critical analysis and asynchronous on-line activities characterise the teaching and learning in this unit.
KWB212 Poetry and Poetics
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides important creative and critical skills in writing poetry and cultivating an understanding of how to interpret and use poetic techniques. It explores a spectrum of contemporary and traditional forms of poetry, and is designed for those who are interested in poetics and the use of words in precise, innovative, concentrated and musical ways. It equips students with knowledge of the techniques, poetic forms and modes, and the opportunity to apply this vocabulary in analysing and reading a wide range of contemporary poetry. The unit provides key creative and critical skills in writing poetry, while offering you the chance to practice in a variety of poetic forms and modes, reflectively writing about your own poetry and analytically writing about the stylistics of another person’s work. The unit occurs at the mid-point of the creative writing major, building on KWB211 Creative Writing: Style and Technique, and preparing you for the advanced work of third year.
KWB214 The Artful Life: From Memoir to Fiction
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit examines the relationship between imaginative literature, especially the novel, and the inspiration we derive from our own lives. Memoir and fiction are major literary forms that are connected by their use of creative writing techniques and by the way they draw material from authors’ personal experiences. They also are pervasive, complex and culturally important literary forms. This unit is designed to help you examine and understand the theory and practice of memoir and long-form fiction writing; the relationship between imagination and inspiration, and the process of planning and research leading to the development of a novel or memoir proposal, including an initial chapter and synopsis. As such, the unit addresses the scope, challenges and practices of developing fiction or memoir; the standards, conventions and possibilities of fiction and memoir forms; and the development of editorial skills in collaboration with others (feedback).
KWB215 Dangerous Ideas: Contemporary Debates in Writing
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit introduces you to the key debates and ideas animating the field of contemporary creative writing, and allows you to consider your own writing practice in the context of these debates. The unit helps you to develop a nuanced understanding of the issues preoccupying contemporary writers, to gain insight into the historical and cultural factors informing those issues, and to articulate your own perspectives via conversation and debate. You will encounter a spectrum of ideas about what it means to be a writer today as well as the historical and cultural factors informing our ideas of authorship.
KWB217 Editing and Publishing
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit offers an advanced understanding of the editing process and the contemporary Australian publishing landscape. It develops your editorial acumen across a range of modes and forms, and builds the interpersonal skills required for editorial relationships. These understandings and skills are crucial for those intending to work in the publishing industry and are of great benefit to creative writers. You will learn to edit the work of others with insight, understanding, and technical skill, and gain a greater knowledge of contemporary Australian publishing.
KWB306 Creative Writing Project 1
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides an opportunity to develop an extended creative writing project in your preferred and strongest genre and form. It will allow you to plan and propose an extended piece of creative work through a series of intensive highly participatory tutorials in collaboration with peer critique groups. Though the major covers a range of writing genres, you choose your strongest genre and write with both breadth and complexity. This unit supports you to demonstrate that you have developed a sophisticated voice or style over the three years of study. The piece of work commenced here will continue to be built on in KWB326 Creative Writing Project 2.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
KWB326 Creative Writing Project 2
Unit information
- School/discipline
- Creative Writing
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit provides a unique learning opportunity to complete a sustained body of creative work in a genre or form of your choice and identify market and publication strategies for your work. Building on the project commenced in KWB306 Creative Writing Project 1, it offers you the opportunity to continue work on an extended piece of creative writing with the assistance of critiques and peer feedback. The unit aids you to identify markets for creative practice, develop skills and strategies to submit work to publishers for professional consideration, and identify and create pathways for publication.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
KYB101 Understanding Creative Practice
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Creative Practice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This foundational unit provides the principles and skills of creative and critical literacies in creative practice. It introduces the descriptive and analytical vocabulary for your creative practice discipline. It also looks at the principles of Indigenous knowledges and to the contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists have made to creative practice across a range of disciplines. The unit emphasises the productive relationship between traditional academic communication and creative practice with student responses to creative practice exemplars provided in both written and artform-based modes. This provides opportunities to practice academic writing, peer learning, and giving and receiving feedback. The unit prepares you to synthesise practical and theoretical knowledge about creative practice.
KYB102 Pathways to a Creative Career
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Creative Practice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This unit helps you develop a professional identity. It introduces the principles and skills required for professional creative practice, including tacit knowledge, education and career planning, and professional development for creative industries practitioners. As such, it addresses personal branding, communicating about your work in professional contexts, navigating ethical and regulatory questions, self-care in practice, working toward a distinctive skill set and setting career goals. Creative practitioners begin developing a professional network during the course of their studies and a foundational understanding of how to build and maintain that network.
KYB103 The Creative Body
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Creative Practice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This practice-based unit gathers you from across the performance disciplines (dance, drama, music) to explore the relationship between body and creative impulse in a transdisciplinary creative space. It introduces a variety of philosophies exploring the psycho-social dynamics of the body in your creative practice and its place in a space. The human body is a fundamental tool and a central site of study for artists, regardless of their specialisation. Good performance techniques are reliant on an understanding of the body and its capabilities to open the imagination of the individual, the group and an audience. An understanding of the body—how it moves, how it feels and how it relates to other bodies—is crucial to build resilience, connectedness and sustainability in performance-based creative practice.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
KYB110 Art, Text and Context
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Creative Practice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This is a foundational unit in the Bachelor of Fine Arts degree that introduces you to the critical contexts of creative works and practices including: how they make meaning, their varying contexts, how they circulate, how these might change over time This is done through an introduction to: some of the key aesthetic, conceptual and technical ideas that underpin a range of creative practice disciplines; critical thinking and the critical analysis of creative works and practices; understanding what it means to be a critical viewer/reader/listener/artist; some different and diverse perspectives on various creative forms, works, and practices, including the contribution that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and thinkers have made across a range of disciplines.
KYB120 Makers and Breakers: Creative Media and Technologies Lab
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Creative Practice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February) and Semester 2 (July)
Unit synopsis
This foundational unit introduces you to a range of creative technologies and digital literacies that will inform your creative arts practice. Along with lectures discussing key concepts and approaches, we take a 'lab' approach to your learning with an emphasis on curiosity and openness within 'makerspace' style workshops. You will have the opportunity to build on skills and ideas introduced in this unit as you progress through your studies. This unit emphasises creative risk tasking and experimentation to help you develop a speculative arts practice. It takes a satisfactory/unsatisfactory approach to assessment to encourage active and enquiring participation.
Approval required
You can only enrol in this undergraduate unit if you meet the specified requirements and have significant background knowledge in the area of study. After you apply, we will assess the units and your background knowledge and let you know the outcome.
KYB201 Socially Engaged Arts Practice
Unit information
- School/discipline
- School of Creative Practice
- Study level
- Undergraduate units
- Availability
- Semester 1 (February)
Unit synopsis
This unit addresses principles, practices and forms of performance that privilege community and cultural democracy. By examining the key ideology and teachings and contemporary Australian practice in community and cultural development (CCD), this unit aims to make connections between creative practice, community and their concerns. It also aims to provide opportunities for you to engage positively in these contexts through your respective art form. Creative practice can reach out beyond the walls of conventional performance space and use its transformative powers to activate solidarity and agency in people and communities to facilitate social action and positive change. Knowledge of the ethos, values and processes of working with communities in a responsive and consultative fashion is an important capability for a comprehensive career in arts and provides key career opportunities for emerging artists.