Bachelor of Creative

Arts - Bendigo & Mildura

New in 2017

Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo

The renewed Bachelor of Creative Arts now offers four majors and
increased opportunities for students to take a range of subjects across a
number of undergraduate degrees.
Bendigo Students can major in Writing and Visual Arts and Mildura students
can major in Visual Arts.
The Visual Arts major (Bendigo, Mildura) will offer a broad range of
practices with emphasis on an open studio environment. You will gain
hands-on experience and learn from academic staff and practicing artists.
Students of the Writing major (Bendigo) will undertake subjects from a
range of genres and practices, including fiction, screen writing and poetry.
The degree offers flexible and self-directed learning to enable you to pursue
your ideal area of interest and graduate ready to put these skills into action.
Throughout your degree you will have access to the regions premier arts
facilities, engage in work integrated learning opportunities, be exposed to
industry leaders, and build your entrepreneurial skills.

Visual Arts Centre, Bendigo

NEW COURSE STRUCTURE

WRITING MAJOR (BENDIGO)

YEAR 1
Semester 1

Semester 2

CRA1ART

OPTION

OPTION

OPTION

What is Art?

First Year Core Major 2 or HUSS

Elective

First Year Core Major 2 or HUSS

Elective

HUSS Elective

CRA1STO

CRA1PWR

ENG1SHS

OPTION

Art and Narrative

Professional Writing

The Short Story

HUSS Elective

MSS2SSP

ENG2WFI

OPTION

OPTION

Screenplay/Sound
Play

Writing Fiction

Second Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Elective

Elective

CRA2WRP

OPTION

OPTION

OPTION

Writing and
Reading Poetry

Second Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Elective

Second Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Elective

Elective

DRA3WFP

CPW3EAP

OPTION

OPTION

Writing for
Performance
(Available 2018)

Editing and
Publishing
(Available 2018)

Third Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Subject

Third Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Subject

CRA3FES

CRA2EON

CRA3CRC

OPTION

Arts Festival
(Available 2018)

Exhibit One
(Available 2018)

Critical/Creative

Third Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Subject

YEAR 2
Semester 1

Semester 2

YEAR 3
Semester 1

Semester 2

VISUAL ARTS MAJOR (BENDIGO, MILDURA)

YEAR 1
Semester 1

Semester 2

CRA1ART

ART1SPA

OPTION

OPTION

What is Art?

Studio Practice A

First Year Core Major 2 or HUSS

Elective

HUSS Elective

CRA1STO

ART1SPB

OPTION

OPTION

Art and Narrative

Studio Practice B

First Year Core Major 2 or HUSS

Elective

HUSS Elective

ART2VMC

ART2SPC

OPTION

OPTION

Visual and
Material Culture

Studio Practice C

Second Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Elective

Elective

ART2SPD

OPTION

OPTION

OPTION

Studio Practice D

Second Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Elective

Second Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Elective

Elective

OPTION

OPTION

YEAR 2
Semester 1

Semester 2

YEAR 3
Semester 1

Semester 2

ART3SPE

ART3RES

Studio Practice E
(Available 2018)

Studio Research
Methods (Available
2018)

Third Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Elective

Third Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Subject

CRA3FES

CRA2EON

ART3SPF

OPTION

Arts Festival
(Available 2018)

Exhibit One
(Available 2018)

Studio Practice F
(Available 2018)

Third Year Core

Major 2 or
Discipline Elective

Second Major Options

Students may complete one or two of the new
majors: Writing or Visual Arts (depending on
campus).
Students can also take an Arts second major
from the Bachelor of Arts:

English

History

Human Geography (Bendigo Only)

Indonesian (Bendigo Only)

Sociology

Visual Arts student in action, Bendigo Campus

RECOMMENDED ELECTIVES
First Year
VPA1PJ1 Photojournalism 1
VPA1PJ2 Photojournalism 2
ENG1DPL Death, Pleasure and the Literary Imagination

Second Year
VPA2CI1 Constructed Image 1 (Bendigo Only)
VPA2CI2 Constructed Image 2 (Bendigo Only)
VPA2ND1 New Documentary 1
VPA2ND2 New Documentary 2

VPA2DW1 Drawing 1
VPA2DW2 Drawing 2
VPA2PJ3 Photojournalism 3
VPA2PJ4 Photojournalism 4
ENG2CNF Creative Non-fiction (Bendigo Only)
ENG2ALT American Literature
ENG2NAA Narrative Analysis
CRA2SMI Shakespeare and the Moving Image (City Campus)
ENG2GOT Gothic Literature and its Children
HUS2ECA Exhibiting Culture A

HUS2NG1 Summer at NGV 1

Third Year
VPA3DM1 Directorial Mode 1 (Bendigo Only)
VPA3DM2 Directorial Mode 2 (Bendigo Only)
ENG3WAB Creative Non-fiction (Bendigo Only)
MSS3ADS Screen Writing Project (Bendigo Only)
MSS3FCR Screen Criticism (Bendigo Only)
ENG3NOV Novels of Love and War
ENG3SAC Shakespeare and Contemporaries
ENG3BAR Romanticism
STC3WIA Writers in Action
HUS3NG2 Summer at NGV 2