Minors

Elevate your degree journey with our minor offerings

Occupational health and safety Students not enrolled in a Monash Art, Design and Architecture degree will need to enrol in the following unit in their first semester of study in the faculty:

OHS1000 - introduction to art and design health and safety

Take on one of our minors to unleash your creativity and refine your skills under the guidance of accomplished academics.

Whether you're an aspiring painter, a budding designer, or an art enthusiast, our minors provide a dynamic blend of practical and theoretical skills and intellectual exploration.

Our minor offerings:

Design

Design

Learn how to think like a designer to solve complex problems with curiosity, agility, experimentation and creativity through the minor in design.

Designers are innovators who translate ideas into outcomes across a breadth of industries and disciplines – whether that’s in the digital space through web design, animation or coding, or exploring ways to improve the cities, transport systems and spaces we inhabit.

With the design minor you’ll learn about the fundamentals of design as well as select two specialisations from the diverse fields of communication, collaborative, spatial and industrial design to suit your interests.

You must complete:

• DGN1000 Design studio 1 (12 credit points)

You must complete two of the following units:

• DGN2033 Material explorations
• DGN2040 Creative sustainability
• DGN2120 Designing for sustainability
• DGN2500 Design thinking for global challenges
• DGN2521 Creative prototyping: Designing with game engines
• DGN2522 Creative prototyping: Interactivity
• DGN2523 Creative prototyping: Connected objects
• DGN2525 Sensory design
• DGN2531 Animation design
• DGN2601 Video production design 1
• DGN2704 Web design

Fine art

Fine art

The fine art minor will allow you to engage with the technical, material and conceptual methods of fine art. You will gain a solid grounding in creative processes in a range of media within practical studio-based classes, underpinned by an understanding of the historical and contemporary value of fine art.

As part of the fine art minor you will complete a Drawing: Introduction unit before selecting three specialisations of your choice – from painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, jewellery, glass, printmaking, and more.

Absorbed in the making, exploration, conceptualisation and analysis of contemporary art, you'll develop critically-informed skills and capabilities across a range of art practices to expand your passions and develop your artistic practice.

You must complete:

• DWG1201 Drawing: Introduction

You must complete three of the following units with no more than one unit at level 1:

• DWG2509 Drawing: The body
• DWG2519 Drawing: The anatomical specimen
• FNA2035 Interventions in sound, performance and socially engaged practices
• FNA2903 Film: Art and cinema
• JWL2311 Material transformations: Jewellery and object forming
• PHO1203 Photography: Introduction
• PHO1204 Photography: Digital imaging for contemporary art
• PRM2001 Printmaking: Etching, relief printing and the artist book
• PRM2401 Printmaking: Screenprinting and the contemporary poster
• PTG1001 Painting: Introduction to materials and methods
• PTG2031 Painting: Colour strategies
• PTG2033 Painting: Figuration
• SCU1021 Material transformations: Ceramics
• SCU2021 Material transformations: Glass and sculptural forming

Art history and theory

Art history and theory

Art history and theory is the study of fine art and visual culture. It critically interrogates the forms, meanings, mediums, and materials of historical and contemporary works of art across cultures, alongside relevant histories and theories attached to them.

The art history and theory minor will equip you with the analytical skills and knowledge to understand the social, political and philosophical contexts of works of art and visual culture, from Australian, contemporary and international art.

You must complete the following unit:

• AHT1101 Renaissance to romanticism

You must complete three of the following units (18 points) (Units offered at both Levels 2 and 3 can only be taken once - * Note: AHT2130/ATH3130 is only offered in Prato)

• AHT1102 Modernism and the avant-garde
• AHT2102 Post-war to contemporary art
• AHT2105 Contemporary international art
• AHT2031/AHT3031 Art and the Majority World
• AHT2130/AHT3130 Renaissance to Baroque: Italian art and architecture in context*
• AHT2135 Renaissance art and architecture
• AHT2440/AHT3440 History and theory of photography, film and video
• AHT2530/AHT3530 Neo-Baroque aesthetics: History and theory
• AHT2740/AHT3740 Australian art
• AHT2882/AHT3882 Contemporary Asian art and exhibitions

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