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Graduate Diploma of Fine Art and Design (Specialisation)

  • Graduate Diploma

This course is offered on a full fee paying basis to eligible domestic students.

Key details

Degree Type
Graduate Diploma
Duration
1 year full-time
Course Code
F6G
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
International Fees
$30,450 per year / $30,450 total

About this course

This course is offered on a full fee paying basis to eligible domestic students. Fees are established per unit and can be found in the unit descriptions within the course schedule. Click on 'View fees for this unit' and select 'Tuition fee (domestic) Post 2008' as the fee type. International students please refer to International Services.

The Graduate Diploma in Fine Art and Design is a professionally oriented course that facilitates technical and conceptual development through studio practice. Specialisations include: Drawing, Painting, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, Time Based Media, Visual Communication and 3D Design.

The Graduate Diploma in Fine Art and Design is a two-semester full-time or equivalent half-time program.

Entry requirements

To qualify for admission, applicants must demonstrate the potential to undertake the GDFAD. Personal or telephone interviews may be required.

Successful applicants will be expected to have completed an undergraduate degree in visual art or visual communications, or in a cognate discipline, with credit or above results in their final year of major.

A person who possesses such other qualifications and professional experience deemed by the Faculty to provide an adequate preparation for study equivalent to that provided for by an undergraduate degree, may be admitted to the course.

Supporting information is required with all applications as follows:

  • A study proposal

Please follow the proposal guidelines outlined below.

Your initial proposal forms the basis of your project, to be discussed and reworked in consultation with your supervisor early in the program.

  • A digital portfolio
  • Please provide up to 20 images of your recent work either as jpeg files no larger than 1MB each or send a web link to your visual work online.
  • Your curriculum vitae

Please focus on details of experience relevant to this application.

  • Educational qualifications

Please provide certified copies of your academic transcripts.

Your study proposal should be approximately 1,000words in length and include the following:

  1. A brief description of your project, outlining your intentions and proposed outcomes.
  2. An outline of the strategies you will employ in the development of your project.
    In the case of studio-based projects, this should include the practical and / or technical steps required.
  3. A discussion of the significance of the project, explaining why this project is of interest to you in personal, social or artistic terms. Where relevant refer to previous projects that you have worked on.
  4. A summary of contextual references for your project. This may include other work in the field that is relevant to your project in terms of idea, theme, style, method or technique.
Minimum Prior Qualification
Bachelor

Study locations

Hobart