Foundation Studies Program (Fast Track) - Arts (X0G:1) (0100809) + Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours - Research Pathway (F4A) (017285J)

Program Description Foundation Studies Program (Fast Track) - Arts (X0G:1) (0100809):

The Foundation Studies program is a direct academic pathway to first-year undergraduate degree study, or an equivalent. The program acts as a bridging course for international students who wish to study a university undergraduate degree course but who don’t yet meet academic requirements and/or have the English language skills for tertiary study.

To successfully complete the program, students must achieve a 50% pass in all units, including English.

Upon successful completion of the course, graduates can enter one of the University of Tasmania’s undergraduate degree courses.

Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours - Research Pathway (F4A):

The Bachelor of Fine Arts with Honours (BFA(Hons)) is a one-year creative arts degree delivered by the School of Creative Arts and Media.

With facilities close to the centre of both Hobart and Launceston, students will have access to world class workshop facilities with generous allocations of studio working space, staffed by dedicated practising artists and designers. Students will be engaging in the contemporary practices of art, which, while still firmly having making at their centre, also engage with the world through critical and reflective thinking.

In one year of advanced practice-led study, students will have the option of undertaking either Professional Honours or Research Honours, depending on their results and future aims. Professional Honours focuses on developing skills required for engaging in creative practices outside the university setting, while Research Honours prepares students for undertaking a Research Higher Degree such as an MFA or a PhD.

Students will present a conceptually multi-layered, resolved creative work as a result of a project in the disciplines of visual art, design or theatre and performance. University of Tasmania is developing opportunities for their students to participate in contemporary culture, not to just be consumers of it - to actively contribute to the cultural life of the society. Students will be able to engage directly with Tasmania’s internationally acclaimed arts culture through their ongoing partnerships with festivals and arts institutions across the state and interact with both Australian and international visiting artists.

A degree in creative arts can be the foundation of a surprising variety of careers, as it develops the generally agreed essential 21st century skills of criticality, creativity, innovation and communication; the only limits are in their imagination.