Visual arts (Double degree)

Our double degrees offer the opportunity to extend your artistic skills whilst receiving a second degree in Arts, Business, Education or Information Technology in just four years. Double degrees offer valuable complementary knowledge and skills that can open doors in the creative economy.

This specialisation will expand your understanding of cultural production and provide you with an interdisciplinary approach to Visual Arts studies. It will complement and enhance your study in your companion degree:

• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Business
• Bachelor of Education (Honours)
• Bachelor of Information Technology

You will develop a critical awareness and understanding of artwork in its production, interpretation and presentation, and a sound knowledge of the theories and practices required for talented people to work professionally in and with the visual arts. In studio classes you will investigate the broader function of the visual arts in society today, learn from active visualart practitioners and develop your own skills and creativity. These classes rotate through a range of workshops including painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture. Studio units may be interdisciplinary, or focus on a particular medium or mode of practice.

You will be exposed to a range of studio and theoretical frameworks and discipline areas as a basis for individual as well as collaborative cultural research and production. You will engage with professional and research practices that apply the skills learnt in the studio units to a diverse range of public contexts. 

Year 1

• Visual practices 1
• Drawing 1
• Introduction to visual culture
• companion degree
• Introduction to art and design health and safety
• Visual practices 2
• Research practices
• Modernism and the avant-garde 

Year 2

• Professional practice
• Workshop elective in drawing, film, glass, jewellery, painting, photography, printmaking or sculpture
• International art 1945-2000
• companion degree
• Research practices advanced
• Electives

Year 3

• Professional practice advanced
• Workshop elective in drawing, film, glass, jewellery, painting, photography, printmaking or sculpture
• companion degree
• Visual practices 3
• Art history and theory selective
• Electives

Year 4

• companion degree

Applicants must also meet the English language requirements. Your application must include one original test:

• IELTS (International English Language Testing System - Academic)
• TOEFL (American Test of English as a Foreign Language)
• PTE Academic (Pearson Test of English)
• Cambridge English

Secondary school qualifications

• Satisfactory completion of final year secondary school, or equivalent, including English
• Satisfactory completion of the International Baccalaureate (IB), including English
• Satisfactory completion of the New Zealand National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA), including English
• Completion of the Gaokao (for minimum scores, see Gaokao entry requirements)

Applicants with complete or incomplete overseas tertiary qualifications are assessed on a case-by-case basis.

Australian government scholarships for international students

The Australia Awards are prestigious international scholarships and fellowships funded by the Australian Government. They offer the next generation of global leaders the opportunity to undertake study, research and professional development in Australia.

The scholarships and fellowships are administered by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR), and the Department of Education.

Australia Awards scholarships

• Contribute to the long-term objectives of developing countries to promote growth and stability.
• Open to students from participating countries.
• For full-time undergraduate or postgraduate study.

Australia Awards Leadership Program

• Offers leadership learning and development opportunities.
• Open to current and future leaders in academic, business, government and non-government services.
• For masters and doctoral degrees only.

Australia Awards Endeavour Scholarships and Fellowships

• Internationally competitive, merit-based scholarships for study, research and professional development.
• Options of undergraduate and postgraduate, postdoctoral research,  and professional development opportunities.