Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Arts (X0F:1) (0100808) + Bachelor of Arts - Art and Curatorial Practices (A3A) (001694A)

Program Description Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Arts (X0F:1) (0100808):

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 Arts - Art and Curatorial Practices (A3A) (001694A):

At the University of Tasmania, students will be part of an academic community that cares deeply about the topics that they teach and study.

Students will learn to influence cultural and social change, and students will gain the knowledge and creativity to envision better futures. Students will take on the world’s cultural, environmental, and humanitarian challenges from multiple perspectives and gain the confidence to make a positive difference. In first year, students will have the opportunity to visit Country with an Aboriginal Elder or knowledge holder as part of the University of Tasmania's curriculum's reflection of the value and place of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives.

The Bachelor of Arts will equip students with a range of specialised and transferable skills that are highly sought after by employers: creative thinking, respect for multiple perspectives, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

The Art and Curatorial Practices program shows how an understanding of art as both artefacts and experiences can shape how creative work is made, analysed and communicated. Curatorial practices, as a term, encapsulates the idea that curatorship question the traditional narratives of art history, and create transformative encounters with creative work. In this program students will develop visual and spatial literacies in conjunction with high level writing and project management skills, enabling students to conceptualise and carry out curatorial projects in the visual arts. This program immerses students in contemporary curatorial debates and practices, using object-based learning, authentic assessment, and industry contextualisation. They will develop an understanding of art theory and history from a contemporary Tasmanian standpoint, with a commitment to decolonisation, ecological awareness, and place.

This program will prepare students to work in areas such as curating and administrating in emerging, independent and events-based arts, as well as equipping students for further study in postgraduate coursework and research. The Art and Curatorial Practices program will provide training in project management and develop student's effective communication strategies and digital literacy. In student's curatorial practice project, they will develop and pitch an idea for their own curatorial project to a panel of industry experts, ready to take student's next step through connections with art institutions and experimental, independent art organisations.