To qualify for admission, applicants must demonstrate the potential to successfully undertake the Graduate Diploma in Visual Communication. A personal or telephone interview may be required.Successful applicants will be expected to have completed an undergraduate degree in visual communication or visual art, 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.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. Upon admission into the course students may apply for credit for previous study. Normally, students who have graduated in a Graduate Diploma or Honours degree may, at the discretion of the Faculty, be awarded credit of up to one-third of the MVC course. Alternatively, also at the discretion of the Faculty, credit of up to one third may be give for achievements by applicants in other awards and professional practice.Supporting information is required with all applications as follows: A study proposalPlease 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 vitaePlease focus on details of experience relevant to this application.Educational qualificationsPlease provide certified copies of your academic transcripts.Your study proposal should be approximately 1,000 words 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