Monash University
Education Committee Meeting 1/98
Meeting 1/98 of the Education Committee was held on Wednesday, 4 February at 10:00 am
in the Sir George Lush Room, University Offices, Clayton Campus.
Apologies: Telephone: 9905 9001; email: Sally.Stafford@adm.monash.edu.au.
11 February 1998
Ms SC Stafford
Executive Officer
There were present:
Professor AW Lindsay, Chair
Associate Professor R Alfredson, Engineering
Associate Professor M Evans, Business and Economics
Professor L Johnson, MME
Professor M King, PhD and Scholarships Committee
Dr K Macrae, Science
Mr K Manser, MUGSU
Associate Professor S McKennish (for Associate Professor J Hurst) Computing and
Information Technology
Ms M McGrath, MSA
Professor J Redmond, Art &Design
Dr K Stewart (For Associate Professor L Roller) College of Pharmacy
Professor G Taylor, Medicine
Mr G Tickell, Education
Mrs J Tooher, Law
Associate Professor N White, Arts
Professor W Young, Co-Opted
In Attendance were:
Mr K Bensley, Art & Design
Ms M Hah, Faculty Registrar, Art & Design
Mr C Vernon (for R Burnet), Student Services Division
Professor W Kent (for Professor T Threadgold), Arts
Professor L Nethercott, Business and Economics
Executive Officer:
Ms S Stafford, Secretariat
MINUTES
Professor A Lindsay opened the Meeting by welcoming Mrs J Tooher, Ms K Manser and Ms M
McGrath to Education Committee. Mrs Tooher is the newly appointed Associate Dean
(Teaching) of the Faculty of Law. Ms Manser and Ms McGrath are 1998 student
representatives from the Monash University Gippsland Student Union and the Monash Student
Association, respectively.
* 1. STARRED ITEMS
The Committee noted that all items related to course approval and major course
amendment had been starred for the attention of the Committee and that certain other items
were starred as requiring discussion. The Committee nominated no additional items to be
starred and endorsed the recommendations for items other than those starred.
* 2. MINUTES
The Committee approved the Minutes of Meeting 8/97 held on Wednesday, 16
December as circulated.
3. ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM MEETING 8/97 OF THE ACADEMIC BOARD
A document was circulated. (Pages 1-16)
The Committee noted the items of interest from Meeting 8/97 of the Academic Board, held
on 25 November.
*4. THE ‘NP’ GRADE
Documents were circulated. (Pages 17-24)
Having noted the documents circulated for members information, the Committee agreed
to re-convene the original Working Party to revisit issues arising from the use of the
‘NP’. The Working Party, which includes Mr G Tickell, Associate Professor N
White, and Dr K Macrae will be joined by the Associate Deans of Faculties who employ the
‘NP’. This group will identify matters associated with the use of the NP which
require the Committee’s further attention, and report their findings at Education
Committee Meeting 2/98.
Action/Information: Dr K Macrae, Mr G Tickell, Associate Professor N White
*5. DIPLOMAS: CREDIT PROVISION AND ADVANCED STANDING
A document was circulated. (Pages 25-26)
The Committee received the paper provided by Associate Professor M Evans and Dr K
Macrae. Members considered the issues associated with the introduction of an award level
of diplomas at undergraduate level as set out in the document presented. (Excerpts appear
in italics below.) They noted that it is possible, by appropriate choice of
elective subjects within a degree program, that students could satisfy simultaneously all
or most of the academic requirements of a diploma program. The Committee recognised that
it is therefore important for the award of a diploma to ensure that students are
formally admitted and complete an appropriate study program and also that a maximum limit
for credit provision or advanced standing be specified.
Background
The Committee noted that the Graduate Studies Policy refers to "the concern of
faculties that cumulative award structures may create the possibility of the retrospective
awarding of qualifications for which a student has not enrolled and that a student could
appear to have completed more study than is the case". This concern would apply also
to awards which could be obtained concurrently. The GSP specifies "that normally
students can be awarded cumulative qualifications provided they have enrolled in and
completed the relevant award programs", satisfying all course requirements. One of
the exceptions to the need to enrol in the course includes "the choice of faculties
to provide, in the legislation for an award program, an official exit point or several
points of exit from an award program". It is recommended that similar provisions also
apply to undergraduate programs.
The Committee also noted that double degree course structures generally are based on
the assumption that some subjects can be credited toward each degree. The minimum length
of a double degree undergraduate program is the duration of the longer course plus one
year. This implies that a minimum of one year’s additional work is required to obtain
an additional degree award. (This is also consistent with the normal rules of credit
transfer of up to 2 years for a 3 year degree). To be awarded a one-year graduate diploma,
6 months work is required for students admitted with advanced standing on the basis of a
graduate certificate. It is recommended that similar provisions also apply to
undergraduate diplomas.
Recommendations
After considering the issues outlined above, the Committee agreed to recommend
that the following provisions be endorsed by Academic Board in respect of credit and
advanced standing for students wishing to obtain the award of diploma at undergraduate
level.
1. Normally students can be awarded qualifications, whether cumulative or
concurrent, provided they have enrolled in and completed the relevant award program.
Permitted exceptions would include cases where faculties have chosen to provide a diploma
as a designated exit point from specified award programs.
2. In specifying the credit provision and advanced standing permissible in a diploma
award course, faculties should specify the minimum proportion of study to be undertaken
for the completion of the course by enrolled students. This minimum should not be lower
than 50%.
*6. CREDIT POINTS
Background
At Meeting 8/97, Education Committee endorsed the recommendations of the Credit Point
Working Party to:
1. adopt a standard credit point range of 3, 6 or 12 points to be associated with the
University’s subject and course offerings, with the adoption of the standard to be
phased in over a period of two years (from the time of endorsement of the proposal), and
2. recognise that courses which are professional in orientation and/or in which there
is no cross-enrolment may be exempted from adoption of such a standard.
and
3. subject to endorsement of the two points detailed above, request that each faculty
provide the Education Committee with a timetable for reform to the above standard within
the period of the next two years, or present a reasonable exception to that standard.
Academic Board Resolution
Subsequently, at Meeting 1/98 Academic Board agreed to refer the proposal to the
Education Committee for further consideration in light of the points raised at Steering
Committee. Those points (extracted from the Academic Board Agenda, p iii) follow:
- the 4, 8, 12 range of credit points is extensively used throughout the University;
- the potential for loss of load in some faculties upon adoption of a 3, 6, 12 credit
point range;
- investigation into development of a more effective timetabling system as a possible
alternative to adoption of a standard credit point range to aid cross-faculty subject
enrolments;
- more fully developing the rationale for the adoption of a standard credit point
range; and
- the costs of and transitional workload arising from necessary re-organisation of
subjects and re-writing of degree regulations.
Action to be Taken
The Committee agreed that the Credit Point Working Party should re-convene to
address the concerns expressed by the Steering Committee. The Working party will prepare a
revised report which:
- sets out the range of credits points in use by individual Faculties at each level,
- addresses the questions of ‘loss of load’, the alternative of a more effective
timetabling system, work load, and costs, and
- amplifies the factors and rationale for moving toward a standard credit-point system.
The Working Party will bring this expanded report to Education Committee for further
consideration before seeking Faculty input into, and support for, a revised proposal to be
put before Academic Board.
Action/Information: Dr K Macrae, Credit Point Working Party Chair
*7. TESTAMUR FOR PARTICIPANTS IN THE DEAN’S SCHOLARS PROGRAM - A PROPOSAL FROM
THE FACULTY OF ARTS
Documents were circulated. (Pages 27-32)
The Committee considered the proposal of the Faculty of Arts that the testamur of
students enrolled in a Dean’s Scholars Program reflect participation in the Program.
The Faculty had proposed that the words ‘as a participant in the Dean’s
Scholars Program’ be included on the testamur. The Committee agreed to re-affirm
its previous decision (taken at Meeting 3/97) that the information must be included on the
transcripts of students enrolled in a Dean’s Scholars Program (with the exception of
those enrolled in the Faculty of Science). The Committee agreed that it was sufficient to
record the information on the student transcript without altering the testamur of students
participating in a Dean’s Scholars Program.
Action/Information: Ms Carol Jordon
8. MEMBERSHIP 1998
A document was circulated. (Pages 33-34)
The Committee noted the information set out in the draft table of the Committee’s
1998 membership and agreed to notify the Secretary of amendments. The final version of the
document is attached. (Attachment
1)
9. EVALUATION PANELS FOR 1998
A document was circulated. (Pages 35-36)
The Committee noted the amended Evaluation Panel allocations for 1998 as detailed in
the document presented.
10. FACULTY OF ARTS
A Report of Meeting 8/97 of the Board of the Faculty of Arts held on 10 December 1997
was circulated. Also circulated were recommendations of the Faculty of Arts Executive of
18 December 1997 and 15 January 1998, respectively. (Pages 37-118)
The Committee received the Report of Meeting 8/97 of the Board of the Faculty of Arts,
noted the proceedings and the recommendations of the Faculty of Arts Executive of 18
December 1997 and 15 January 1998, respectively, and considered each item requiring action
separately for submission to the Academic Board.
*10.1 New Course Proposals
10.1.1 Graduate Certificate in Civil Ceremonies
This course was proposed for introduction from Semester 1, 1998 as an on-campus course
offered on the Caulfield campus. Documents were circulated. (Pages 41-54)
The Committee endorsed for submission to the Academic Board the proposal of the Faculty
of Arts to establish a new course, to be titled Graduate Certificate in Civil Ceremonies.
10.1.2 Graduate Diploma of Arts (Civil Ceremonies)
This course was proposed for introduction from Semester 1, 1998 as an on-campus course
offered on the Caulfield campus. Documents were circulated. (Pages 55-62)
The Committee endorsed for submission to the Academic Board the proposal of the Faculty
of Arts to establish a new course, to be titled Graduate Diploma of Arts (Civil
Ceremonies).
Secretarial Note: The Committee had questioned whether the titles of these awards
accorded with Faculty of Arts award nomenclature and were consistent with existing awards.
Ms C Jordon, Faculty Registrar, indicated subsequently that these titles are accurate. The
Faculty intends that they appear in Statute 6.1.2 as reported here.
*10.2 Major Amendment to Existing Course
10.2.1 Proposal for a ‘Stand Alone’ Bachelor of Communication Degree
(Berwick Campus)
The Faculty of Arts withdrew this item from consideration prior to the Meeting.
*10.2.2 Disestablishment of Department of Music Subjects Constituting Amendment to
Existing Course
The Faculty of Arts had recommended the disestablishment of the following subjects,
constituting an amendment to course. Documents were circulated. (Pages 67-92)
10.2.2.1 MUS2470/MUS3470 Early Music Ensemble
10.2.2.2 MUS3130/MUS4140 Theatrical music
10.2.2.3 MUS3170/4180 Chamber music
10.2.2.4 MUS3190/MUS4200 Keyboard music
10.2.2.5 MUS3210/MUS4220 Vocal Music
10.2.2.6 MUS2480/MUS3480 Performance studies: Indonesian gamelan
The Committee endorsed for submission to the Academic Board the recommendation of the
Faculty of Arts that the subjects in items 10.2.2.1 through 10.2.2.6 above be
disestablished.
The Committee noted that the subjects to be offered in 1998, as detailed on page 77 of
the Agenda papers, reflected the Department of Music’s subject offerings prior to
changes arising from Education Committee Meeting 8/97. It requested that the document
provided by the Faculty be amended to reflect the outcome of that meeting before being
presented at Meeting 2/98 of the Academic Board. A revised version of the document was
obtained subsequently and is attached. (Attachment 2)
10.3 New Subject Proposals
Documentation was available from the Secretary regarding these proposals for perusal by
members. Handbook entries were circulated. (Pages 95-108).
Open Learning
10.3.1 PHL21 Origins of modern philosophy A: Descartes
10.3.2 PHL32 Origins of modern philosophy B: Locke, Leibniz and Hume
10.3.3 PHL23 Thinking about science
On campus
10.3.4 PHL3880 Origins of modern philosophy B: Locke, Leibniz and Hume
10.3.5 AST2015/AST3015 Study abroad: New England & American culture
10.3.6 SPN2010R/SPN2020R Intermediate Spanish (Berwick Campus)
Graduate Certificate in Civil Ceremonies/Graduate Diploma of Arts (Civil
Ceremonies)
(handbook entries follow course proposals, item 10.1, above)
10.3.7 CVL4010-Rites of Passage: Celebrating Life Cycle Events
10.3.8 CVL4020 -Life Cycle Events in Music and Literature
10.3.9 CVL4030 Celebrant and Client: Legal, Ethical and Personal Issues
The Committee endorsed for submission to the Academic Board the subject proposals
listed in items 10.3.1 through 10.3.9, inclusive. (See item 10.6 for discussion related to
Open Learning subject proposals.)
10.4 Amendments to Existing Subjects
The Faculty of Arts had agreed to recommend amendments to existing subjects as listed
in the Report of the Faculty Board presented.
The Education Committee noted the amendments to existing subjects of the Faculty of
Arts as detailed in the Report of the Faculty Board presented.
10.5 Disestablishment of Subjects
The Faculty of Arts had recommended the disestablishment of the following subjects as
detailed in the documents presented. (Pages 109-116)
The Education Committee noted the information.
*10.6 Proceedings
10.6.1 Open Learning Subject Approval Procedures
The Faculty of Arts had adopted the Open Learning Subject Approval Procedures as set
out in the document presented. (Pages 117-118). The Committee noted the procedures and
agreed on their potential for wider application across Faculties. Members agreed to draw
the attention of their respective Faculties to the existence and contents of the Faculty
of Arts Procedures.
Changes in Open Learning and Redefinition of the Role of the Distance Education and
Open Learning Committee
Professor A Lindsay advised the Committee that the Board of Open Learning Australia was
moving to reposition OLA so that it could better serve the shareholder institutions. He
noted that as a tighter relationship developed between Open Learning subjects and regular
Monash offerings, new quality assurance procedures covering Open Learning offerings would
be needed. The Procedures and the Open Learning subject approval proforma developed
by the Arts Faculty would provide a departure point for the evolution of such procedures.
Professor Lindsay also foreshadowed a re-definition of the role of the Distance Education
and Open Learning Committee, which reports to Education Committee. Professor Lindsay
indicated that the organisation and membership of the DE&OL Committee would be
reviewed to ensure it is an appropriate new environment for distance education and open
learning.
11. FACULTY OF ART & DESIGN
The Report of the Committee of Advice to the Dean of the Faculty of Art & Design
held on 16 January 1998 was circulated. (Pages 119-196)
The Committee received the Report of the Committee of Advice to the Dean of the Faculty
of Art & Design, and considered each item requiring action separately for submission
to the Academic Board.
11.1 New Subject Proposals
Documentation was available from the Administrative Officer regarding these proposals
for perusal by members. Handbook entries were circulated. (Pages 123-196). Members were
asked to note that the entry for TAD3301 had been omitted from the Agenda papers. The
TAD3301 handbook entry, tabled at the Meeting, is attached. (Attachment 3).
11.1.1 VCM1101 Visual Thinking and Communication
11.1.2 VCM1102 Basic Design
11.1.3 VIS2103 Visual Arts Studio 3
11.1.4 VIS2104 Visual Arts Studio 4
11.1.5 VIS3105 Visual Arts Studio 5
11.1.6 VIS3106 Visual Arts Studio 6
11.1.7 PHO1201 Photography 1B
11.1.8 PHO1202 Photography 2B
11.1.9 TAD2101 Modernism and Visual Challenge 2A
11.1.10 AD2111 Modernism and Visual Challenge 2B
11.1.11 TAD3101 Modernism and Visual Challenge 3A
11.1.12 TAD3111 Modernism and Visual Challenge 3B
11.1.13 TAD2102 Perspectives on Post-war Practices 2A
11.1.14 TAD2112 Perspectives on Post-war Practices 2B
11.1.15 TAD3102 Perspectives on Post-war Practices 3A
11.1.16 TAD3112 Perspectives on Post-war Practices 3B
11.1.17 TAD2103 The Classical Tradition and Contemporary Critique 2A
11.1.18 TAD2113 The Classical Tradition and Contemporary Critique 2B
11.1.19 TAD3103 The Classical Tradition and Contemporary Critique 3A
11.1.20 TAD3113 The Classical Tradition and Contemporary Critique 3B
11.1.21 TAD2104 Romantic Sensibility and the ‘Other’ 2A
11.1.22 TAD3104 Romantic Sensibility and the ‘Other’ 3A
11.1.23 TAD2107 New Baroque Visualities: Late 20th Century Visual Culture 2A
11.1.24 TAD2117 New Baroque Visualities: Late 20th Century Visual Culture 2B
11.1.25 TAD3107 New Baroque Visualities: Late 20th Century Visual Culture 3A
11.1.26 TAD3117 New Baroque Visualities: Late 20th Century Visual Culture 3B
11.1.27 TAD2301 Making Art and Design: Cultural Contexts 2A
11.1.28 TAD3301 Making Art and Design: Cultural Contexts 3A
11.1.29 TAD2401 Perception, Imagination and Judgement 2A
11.1.30 TAD2411 Perception, Imagination and Judgement 2B
11.1.31 TAD3401 Perception, Imagination and Judgement 3A
11.1.32 TAD3411 Perception, Imagination and Judgement 3B
11.1.33 TAD2402 Issues and Problems in the Visual Arts 2A
11.1.34 TAD2412 Issues and Problems in the Visual Arts 2B
11.1.35 TAD3402 Issues and Problems in the Visual Arts 3A
11.1.36 TAD3412 Issues and Problems in the Visual Arts 3B
11.1.37 TAD3207 Popular Culture and Contemporary Communication 3A
11.1.38 TAD3217 Popular Culture and Contemporary Communication 3B
The Committee endorsed for submission to the Academic Board the subject proposals
listed in items 11.1.1 through 11.1.38, inclusive.
12. FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
The Report of Meeting 6/97 of the Board of the Faculty of Business and Economics held
on 10 December 1997 was circulated. (Pages 197-226)
The Committee received the Report of Meeting 6/97 of the Board of the Faculty of
Business and Economics, noted the proceedings, and considered each item requiring action
separately for submission to the Academic Board.
*12.1 Recommendation Regarding Time Limits for Undergraduate Degree Programs
A document was circulated. (Page 199)
The Committee endorsed for submission to the Academic Board the recommendation of the
Faculty of Business and Economics that a time limit of ten years be adopted for completion
of the requirements of all the Faculty’s undergraduate single degrees and
intra-faculty double degree programs.
In discussing the recommended time limit, the Committee noted that the Faculty had
given consideration to the need to ensure currency of knowledge among its graduates.
Simultaneously, the Faculty had sought to extend the time-frame for degree completion to
allow students to manage their own course of study in a manner which best suits their own
academic and personal needs. Associate Professor M Evans advised the Committee of the
Faculty’s current regulations which stipulate that a student must apply for, and be
granted leave of absence in one-year increments. Accordingly, the proposed time limit
would operate as follows:
Provided a student has applied for and been awarded leave of absence (which is
granted for a period of one year in each instance), the Faculty of Business and Economics
will allow a student a period of ten years from the date of initial enrolment to complete
the requirements for a single degree or an intra-faculty double degree program.
12.2 Major Amendment to Existing Course
12.2.1 Proposal for a ‘Stand-Alone’ Bachelor of Communication Degree
(Berwick Campus)
This item was withdrawn prior to consideration by the Committee. See item 10.2.1,
above.
12.3 New Subject Proposals
Documentation was available from the Secretary regarding these proposals for perusal by
members. Handbook entries were circulated. (Pages 201-208)
12.3.1 MGF9xxx Family Business Issues III
12.3.2 AFF9xxx Family Business Issues IV
12.3.3 MGF5xxx Research Project in Organisational Systems
The Committee endorsed for submission to the Academic Board the subject proposals listed
in items 12.3.1 through 12.3.3, inclusive.
12.4 Minor Amendments to Existing Courses and Amendments to Subjects
The Faculty of Business and Economics had agreed to recommend minor amendments to
existing courses and amendments to existing subjects as detailed in the Report of the
Faculty Board presented. Documents were circulated. (Pages 209-226)
The Education Committee noted the minor amendments to existing courses and amendments
to existing subjects of the Faculty of Business and Economics as detailed in the Report of
the Faculty Board presented.
13. FACULTY OF SCIENCE
The Report of the Dean of the Faculty of Science, dated 7 January 1998, was circulated.
(Pages 227-243)
The Committee received the Report of the Dean of the Faculty of Science and considered
each item requiring action separately for submission to the Academic Board.
13.1 Major Amendment to Existing Course
13.1.1 Amendment of the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Psychology
The Faculty of Science had proposed amendments to the Postgraduate Diploma in Applied
Psychology. A document was circulated. (Pages 227-230)
The Committee endorsed for submission to the Academic Board the amendments to the
Postgraduate Diploma in Applied Psychology proposed by the Faculty of Science.
13.2 Minor Amendments to Existing Courses and Amendments to Existing Subjects
The Faculty of Science had agreed to recommend minor amendments to existing courses and
amendments to existing subjects as detailed in the Report presented. A document was
circulated. (Pages 231-243)
The Education Committee noted the minor amendments to existing courses and amendments
to existing subjects of the Faculty of Science as detailed in the Report presented.
14. NEXT MEETING
The next scheduled meeting of the Education Committee will be held at 10.00 am on
Wednesday, 18 March 1998. Course and subject proposal submissions for that meeting are due
on or before WEDNESDAY, 18 FEBRUARY 1998 full Reports are due on or before
Friday, 6 March 1998.
It is very important that all final submissions include a Report or draft Report from
the Faculty Board. Submissions must be electronically submitted. Hard copies should also
be submitted for our records. Please DO NOT staple or submit double-sided hard
copies.
The Committee noted the information above.
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CONFIRMED AS AN ACCURATE RECORD:____________________________________
DATE:____________________________________
Membership
Professor A Lindsay (Chair)
Associate Professor R Alfredson, Engineering
Ms Jann Counsell, MUGSU, Gippsland
Associate Professor M Evans, Business and Economics
Mr P Hawman, MPA, Graduate Diploma
Associate Professor J Hurst, Computing and Information Technology
Professor L Johnson, MME
Professor M King, PhD and Scholarships Committee
Dr K Macrae, Science
Ms K Manser, MUGSU
Ms M McGrath, MSA, Clayton
Mr H McPherson, MONSU, Caulfield
Mr J. Poussard, MUSU Inc, Peninsula
Professor J Redmond, Art and Design
Professor L Roller, Pharmacy
Associate Professor G Taylor, Medicine
Mr G Tickell, Education
Mrs J Tooher, Law
Mr J Welikala, MPA, Masters
Associate Professor N White, Arts
Mr M Whitehead, MUBSU, Berwick
Mr M Williams, MUSU, Inc, Caulfield
Professor B Young, Co-Opted
In Attendance
Ms J Buckingham, Office of the DVC (A&P)
Mr R Burnet, Student Services
Professor W Kent, History
Professor L Nethercott, Business and Economics
Professor T Threadgold, Arts
Professor P Stewart, Pharmacy
Professor G Webb, CHED
Faculty Registrar/Manager (in rotation) - Ms M Hah, Art and Design
P Siggins, Secretariat
S Stafford, Secretariat 
EDUCATION COMMITTEE - 1998 MEMBERSHIP
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Prof A W Lindsay (Chair) |
A1 |
A/Prof Robin Alfredson (Engineering) |
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Phone: 52018 Fax: 53706 |
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Alternate: Mr Barrie Harding (Sub Dean Eng Caulf) |
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Secretary: Jenny Culverwell - Phone: 52018 |
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Phone: 53547 Fax: 53409 |
| AXX |
Dr Kristina Macrae (Psychology) |
A1 |
A/Prof Merran Evans (Business & Economics) |
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Alternate: Dr Leo Brewin (Mathematics) |
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Alternate: Prof Les Nethercott (alt: Alan Farley) |
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Phone: 53951 Fax: 54403 |
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Phone: 52358 Fax: 55474 (H): 9497 1039 |
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Mobile: 0419517326 Fax: 9497 4233 |
| XX |
Prof Max King (PhD & Scholarships) |
A2 |
A/Prof John Hurst (Information Technology) |
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Alternate: Prof Clive Probyn (English) |
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Alternate:A/Prof Sue McKemmish |
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Phone: 52449 Fax: 55474 |
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Phone: 55192 Fax: 55146 |
| A1 |
Mrs Joycey Tooher (Law) |
A |
Mr Karen Bensley, (A&D) |
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Alternate: Prof.Richard Fox (1st Semester) Prof.
Marcia Neave (2nd Semester) |
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Alternate: Prof John Redmond Phone: 32255 Fax: 32276 |
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Phone: 53363 Fax: 55305 |
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| A1 |
A/Prof Louis Roller (Pharmacy) |
A2 |
Prof Grahame Taylor (Medicine) |
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Alternate: Dr Kay Stewart (Pharmacy Practice) |
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Alternate: Dr Chris Browne (52508) |
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Phone: 39578/39579 Fax: 39629 |
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Phone: 52512/54315 Fax: 54302 |
| A2 |
Mr Gerry Tickell (Education) |
A2 |
A/Prof Naomi White (Arts) |
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Alternate: Mr Peter Yates |
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Alternate: Prof John Bigelow |
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(email: Sandra.Bosmans@Education) |
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Phone: 32377/54221 Fax: 9817 5875 (Home) |
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Phone: 015 681 608 (mobile) |
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(H) 9817 2483 |
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Phone: 52863 Fax: 52779 |
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Prof Bill Young (Civil Engineering) |
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Professor Les Johnson (Marketing - Mt Eliza) |
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Alternate: |
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Alternate: Dr Joseph Wallace |
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Phone: 32391 Fax: 32796 |
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Phone: 31803 Fax: 9215 1815 |
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L.Johnson@ITS-caul1.cc.mon.edu.au |
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Student Representation |
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Ms Kylie Manser |
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Mr Hugh McPherson |
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MUGSU Gippsland |
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MONSU Inc Caulfield/Peninsula |
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Phone: temporarily on Clayton Campus 55391 |
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Phone: 32525 Fax: 9572 3971 HMCT1@student.monash.edu.au |
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Laraine.Lynch@adm |
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Mr Peter Hawman |
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Mr Janaka Welikala |
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MPA Clayton (Grad Dip) |
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13 Linda St Clayton 3168 |
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15 Clyde Street Highett Vic 3190 |
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MPA Clayton (Masters) |
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Phone: 9562 7573 Fax: |
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Mr Mark Whitehead |
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Ms Melanie McGrath |
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MUBSU Berwick |
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MSA Clayton |
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Phone: 47018 Mawhi3@student.monash.edu.au |
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Phone: 51122 Fax: 54185 education.MSA@adm.monash.edu.au |
(AGS) Professor Terry Threadgold Postgraduate Centre, Arts Phone: 51019 Fax: 52135
(AGS) Professor Bill Kent (acting for Professor Threadgold until 1 July
1998) Dept of History, Arts Phone: 52166 Fax: 52210
(AGS) Professor Les Nethercott Department of Taxation and Business Phone: 52380 Fax:
55475
(AGS) Professor P J Stewart School of Pharmaceutics, Parkville Phone: 39516 Fax: 39583
A Associate Deans (Teaching)
XX Postgraduate Evaluation Panel
1/2 Undergraduate Evaluation Panels
AGS Associate Dean (Graduate Studies)
Return to Minutes
Secretarial Note: This is a revised version of the document received by Education
Committee at Meeting 1/98. Pages 5 and 6 have been amended to reflect the current
offerings of the Department, as requested by Education Committee. An ‘original’
of the revised document, signed by Professor Dr C De Wilde, Head, Department of Music was
not available at this time, but will be filed upon receipt.
SCS
24/2/98 3:25 PM
15th December 1997
| Memorandum to: |
CUGS
C/o Helen Revis |
| From: |
Professor Margaret Kartomi
Head, Department of Music |
| Re: |
Music Department Course offerings 1998 |
An external Review of the Department of Music, which was conducted in May 1997, noted
that (since 1993) the Department has been moving from its origins as a specialist
musicology and ethnomusicology oriented Department to the emerging need areas of
performance and composition.
In response to the external review of preferred future directions for the Department of
Music and following more discussion within the Department, the Department decided to
amalgamate or abolish some courses; and, in view of limited staff time, to aim to teach
fewer larger optional classes. It decided to continue to offer majors in performance,
composition, musicology/ethnomusicology and to teach advanced courses in these four areas
at Master’s level, but decided it can no longer afford the luxury of offering as many
course options as at present.
The Department's decisions were based partly on the external review's recommendation
that the department continue to rationalise its courses. Its decisions were also partly
based on the strong need to introduce two units in aural training and related practical
skills (MUS 2020.04 and MUS 2030.04 Practical Musical Skills) throughout the second year
of the BMus course. Aural training is universally regarded as being essential/core
training for all music students (especially -- but not only -- performance and composition
students), as are related practical skills such as keyboard or accompanyng, yet we have
not been able to fit such units into our curriculum. The review recommended that the Bmus
degree course be reviewed to assess ways in which the level and intensity of
students’ professional performance and composition training can be increased so that
it is commensurate with comparable institutions. We found we needed to abolish two
optional units to find space for two new units in practical musical skills. A third
principle behind the restructuring was the further internationalisation of the department,
i.e. its plans to teach some of its undergraduate and postgraduate courses in DE mode
offshore in Malaysia and Indonesia.
In deciding how best to rationalise its courses, the department was cognisant of the
need to offer a balanced pedagogically sound consortium of units in all three streams:
performance, composition and musicology/ethnomusicology.
The Monash University Plan recommended that departments focus on their core business
when rationalising their teaching/research. Following extensive discussions, the
Department decided that its courses in early music (i.e. MUS2470/3470 Early Music Ensemble
and MUM5040 Medieval and Renaissance Music), a Gamelan course (Performance Studies:
Indonesian Gamelan MUS2480.04/3480.04) and music genre studies (i.e. MUS3130/4140/MUM4130
Theatrical Music, MUS3170/4180/MUM4180 Chamber Music, MUS3190/4200/MUM4200 Keyboard Music,
MUS3210/4220/MUM4220 Vocal Music) were no longer considered part of its core business. The
Department also foreshadows its desire to merge MUS3410/4420/MUM4420 Research Methods and
MUS3640/4640/MUM4640 Fieldwork Methods (retitled Research and Field Methods). In 1998 it
also plans to reorganise its ethnomusicology offerings.
Rationale: (a) Music Genre Studies Units
The Department has been offering students two choices of musicology courses at second,
third and fourth year levels: (a) one group of units is based on an in-depth look at
selected historical periods and (b) another group of subjects has been based on a musical
genre approach. Group (a) courses include MUS2120.08 Music of the Romantic Ideal, MUS3580
Contemporary Music, and MUS3390 Aesthetics and Criticism etc.. Group (b) units comprise
four optional, annually - rotating genre-study units, i.e. MUS3130/4140/MUM4130 Theatrical
Music, MUS3170/4180/MUM4180 Chamber Music, MUS3190/4200/MUM4200 Keyboard Music and
MUS3210/4220/MUM4220 Vocal Music. Only one of these units have been offered each year. The
two lots of courses actually duplicate each other to a degree.
The essential difference between the genre studies-based units and the historical
period-based units is that the former are based on an historical overview-of-all-periods
approach applied to specific musical genres such as Western chamber or keyboard music,
whereas the latter ares based on an in-depth study of music across -the- genres in each
historical period. The music genre units were introduced into the Department in the late
1960s and at that time were regarded as novel. However, each genre course contains similar
historical coverage and reasoning; and the Department now feels that the period approach
in the core first-year course should continue to be adopted in a systematic fashion
throughout its later-year music history units. There are two reasons for this. The period
approach (1) allows students to make an in-depth study of music of particular periods as
opposed to studying a series of historical overview-based units for each genre, eg.
chamber music, keyboard music and (2) allows for the department to offer a systematic
unity of approach and coverage throughout its historically oriented courses. The
historical-period based units have been offered now for several years. One such unit --
MUS3580 Contemporary Music -- covers the history and repertoire of the many musical genres
that were developed throughout the twentieth century. Similarly, MUS 3390.08/4390.08 Music
Aesthetics and Criticism, etc. concentrates on the Romantic and Contemporary periods and
MUS2140.08 Music of the Romantic Ideal covers the Romantic period. Unlike the rotating
genre study units,these three units have been offered every year.
(b) Early Music Units
It is of course not possible for a small department like Music, to offer in-depth units
covering every historical period of the musics it teaches, i.e. Western, Asian or African
music. However, the Department's core first-year units MUS 1100 and MUS 1110 will still
offer an overview of the history and repertoire of all periods -- from Early Music to
Contemporary. The historical coverage of our courses as a whole will still be quite broad;
besides the abovementioned second and third period oriented courses, a first-year
undergraduate unit (MUS1040.06) and a later-year Open Learning unit (MU12) on the history
of nineteenth and twentieth century popular music will continue to be offered at first
year. In addition the Department will still continue to offer two postgraduate units on
nineteenth and twentieth century Australian music (MUM5030.12) and another on music
history and historiography (Topics in Musicology MUM5010).
(c) Gamelan Units
The gamelan unit will be replaced by a more advanced gamelan unit at 3rd & 4th year
level for 1999.
The Department decided to rationalise its course offerings in this area by abolishing
the genre study subjects and henceforth to offer group (a) units only and abolish group
(b) units.
The Department naturally regrets having to abolish its undergraduate early music course
and its postgraduate unit i.e., MUM 5040 Medieval and Renaissance Music.. However, Early
Music has never been a leading priority of the Department, nor is it taught in more than a
few music deparments in Australia; the core business of most departments ranges from the
baroque to the contemporary periods.. Both MUS 2470.04 or .08/3470.04 or .08 Performance
Studies: Early Music and MUM5040 have always been offered as optional units. A problem
with MUS 2470/3470 has been that the Department has not been in a position to buy early
music instruments; and no staff member has made any efforts to acquire grants or other
funding for this purpose. Thus, the student performance aspect of the course has been
limited to mainly vocal music. What limited funding the Department has acquired for
instrument purchase has had to be spent on keyboards and instruments for the two
orchestras and wind symphony run by the Department, including replacing instruments that
have been stolen or lost from time to time. A problem with MUM 5040 has been its low to
very low enrolments. It should be noted however that Early Music will continue to be
taught by Dr De Wilde as part of the core first-year course MUS 1100.06/1110.06.
Recently the University of Melbourne and Monash University signed a Corporate
Agreement. In line with this development the Department of Music has arranged for those
Monash students who may have a special interest in early music the opportunity to enrol
for credit in their Monash Bachelor of Music degree in units offered by The University of
Melbourne's Early Music Centre,(in the Faculty of Music).
The proposed teaching units for 1998 are listed in the attached. The future of
remaining courses/units will need to be subject to ongoing review and adjustment to meet
the viable needs of students and the requirements for maintaining relevance and academic
excellence for the Department of Music. In view of the large and increasing numbers of
students enrolled in subjects involved in music technology classes, (especially since La
Trobe Music Department closed) it is also necessary for the Department to increase the
number of composition and technology units, a development which was also foreshadowed in
the Review. The Department also foreshadows some proposals to be made to CUGS and the
Education Committee for new units in these areas.
It is strongly believed that our continual course review will set the
proper academic foundation for continuing successful delivery of music programs into the
future in line with the Monash and Faculty Plans. *************
RESULTS OF COURSE RE-STRUCTURING FOR 1998
The Composition Major, Honours courses in the BMus, BA and BPA; and the MA
It is proposed that the present composition/music technology component of the first
year core units (MUS1100/1110) be cut by half; that it be followed at second year - all
year - by the analytical and compositional techniques units and music composition workshop
units; and that they be followed at third year by Twentieth Century Compositional
Techniques (MUS3310), Music Composition Workshop (MUS3660/3670), Music Aesthetics,
Criticism, Sociology and Psychology (MUS3390), and Contemporary Music (MUS3580) units; and
that at honours and masters qualifying level, the units presently listed above under (5)
above will still be available to students. The masters course will also include MUM5060
(Research Project), MUM5061 (Portfolio of Compositions and Paper) and MUM5980 (Performance
Reserach Project).
Ethnomusicology Major, Honours courses in the BMus, BA and BPA; and the MA
The department needs to sustain its research program in ethnomusicology and to continue
to use its research collections, given its recognition as a national leader in this field
(see Review p.5). However, it needs to reorganise and rationalise its undergraduate
teaching in the area. The first-year core units (MUS1100/1110), which were singled out by
the Review for being too large and demanding, will still retain an hour a week of classes
to introduce the principles and practice of ethnomusicology, but lasting for one semester,
not two.
The first year units in American Music and Popular Culture (MUS1040) and Gamelan
Performing Arts (MUS1060) will also continue to be offered. The current five-year rotating
third and fourth year area studies units will need to reduced in the number offered; and
be revised to take on a more intensive ethnomusicological theory-based approach. The
department plans to supplement the introductory gamelan course by a well-developed
advanced gamelan course (special studies) for third and fourth year students by 1999
(MUS3490/4490). [See musicology (above) for further 4th year and MA Qualifying subjects].
At Honours and MA level, the course MUS4270 Music and Popular Culture: Asia and Australia
will be offered by distance education mode, and possibly also in on-campus mode.
The BMus Performance Major, Honours courses in the BMus, and the Masters in
Performance
Given the widespread view that the BMus contains too little aural training, the
department will add an all-year course in aural musical skills at second year level from
early 1998 (i.e. MUS2020.04 and MUS2030.04). Students will normally continue to take the
first, second and third year courses in (i) orchestral and choral performance and
repertoire and (ii) solo and duo performance and literature (with a weekly private lesson
for each student). At fourth year level, units MUS3920/MUM4010 Applied Music: Arranging
and Conducting and MUS4030 Special Project: practical study will continue to be offered,
with a quota of enrolments.
Thus at Masters Qualifying and Masters levels, the mainly performance-based units
MUM4010 (Applied Music), MUM4960 and MUM4990 (Chief Practical Study) units, MUM5980
(Performance research project) and MUM4480 (Gamelan special studies) will continue to be
offered, along with the research project unit (MUM5060) thesis and composition (MUM5061)
units.
The Musicology Major, Honours courses in the BMus, BA and BPA; and the MA
It is proposed (i) that the present strong
musicological/ethnomusicological/composition/theory component of the core first year
course (MUS1100/1110) be continued; (ii) that in second year, students will continue to be
able to take the two units in Analytical and Compositional Techniques (MUS2110/2120) and
the Music of the Romantic Ideal (MUS2140), and that at third year they will be able to
continue to take Music Aesthetics, Criticism, Sociology and Psychology (MUS3390), Music
and Popular Culture: Asia and Australia (MUS3270), Twentieth Century Compositional
Techniques (MUS3310) and Contemporary Music (MUS3580) units, with Music Pedagogy (MUS3970)
serving as another option; (iii) that the research methods and fieldwork methods units
will be combined into a one-semester unit at third and fourth year level as well as at
Masters qualifying level, along with MUS4600 (Special Reading Course in Music), MUS4720
(Thesis), and MUS4760 (Special Project: Composition and Advanced Technology); and that at
Masters level, units MUM4020 (Music Aesthetics, Criticism, Sociology, and Psychology),
MUM4310 (20th Century Compositional Techniques), MUM44xx (Research and Field Methods),
MUM5010 (Topics in Musicology), MUM5020 (Directed Reading), MUM5030 (Australian Music
History), and MUM5060 (Research Project in Musicology) will continue to be offered,
subject to the availability of staff.
In 1998 the Department will teach the following courses:
| MUM5010.12 MUM5020.12
MUM5030.12
MUM5060.12
MUM5061.24
MUM5980.32 |
MUM4010.12 MUM4020.12
MUM4470.12
MUM4310.12
MUM44XX.12 (Research and Fieldwork Methods, retitled
MUM4480.12
MUM4580.12
MUM4840.12
MUM4860.12
MUM4960.12
MUM4980.12
MUM4990.12
MUS2020.04
MUS2030.04
MUS2070.04
MUS2080.04
MUS2110.04
MUS2120.04
MUS2140.08
MUS2510.04
MUS2520.04
MUS2660.04
MUS2670.04
MUS2980.06
MUS2990.06 |
MUS4010.08 MUS4030.24
MUS4340.08
MUS4390.08
MUS44xx.08 Research and Fieldwork Methods, retitled
MUS4490.08
MUS4580.08
MUS4600.08
MUS4720.24
MUS4760.24
MUS4840.08
MUS4860.08
MUS4980.08
|
MUS3310.08 MUS3330.08
MUS3390.08
MUS34XX.08(Research and Fieldwork Methods, retitled
MUS3490.08
MUS3495.04
MUS3510.06
MUS3515.04
MUS3520.06
MUS3525.04
MUS3580.08
MUS3660.06
MUS3665.04
MUS3670.06
MUS3675.04
MUS3830.08
MUS3860.08
MUS3920.04
MUS3970.08
MUS3975.04
MUS3980.06
MUS3990.06 |
FURTHER NOTES
Undergraduate and Postgraduate Teaching Plans for the Department.
Recently our department submitted new proposals for new subjects (eg. MUS1000, MUS1980,
MUS1990 and MUS1040) by Distance Education to CUGS. The department has already discussed
the overall rationale of its proposed postgraduate courses in a COGS meeting; and it now
wishes briefly to acquaint the Education Committee with the overall rationale for its
proposed undergraduate offshore courses too, for they are relevant to the current issue of
course restructuring.
Indeed, course preferences indicated by our offshore partner institutions to me on
three recent trips to Malaysia and Singapore have strongly influenced the Department's
restructuring, as has the Department's decision (beginning in 1995 to develop a strong
composition/music technology stream at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. (This
decision has been further intensified very recently by the demise of the Latrobe Music
Department and the likely partial transferral of their music technology students and new
enrollees to Monash University.) Recently the Vice-Chancellor’s area gave our
Department substantial funding to expand its music technology and studio recording
facilities.
At present, several staff members of the Department are engaged in converting selected
existing on-campus and OLA music courses to DE mode for delivery in Indonesia and
Malaysia, and two new courses are being written in DE mode. The Department's extensive
distance education course-writing exercise is being assisted by Professor John Harris and
the DEC at Gippsland this year and will continue throughout next year. In mid-1998 the
Department plans to teach a uni-prep course at UniSadhuGuna in Jakarta assisted by a top
local music academy and at Sunway College/Yamaha Music Pty Ltd in Kuala Lumpur. From early
1999 the department plans to teach its postgraduate courses to students in Malaysia and
Indonesia leading to the Faculty Certificate (a) in Music Performance and (b) in Music
Technology and World Music, as well as the Postgraduate Diploma and Masters degree courses
in these two areas. Also from early 1999 it plans to teach the first year of its Bachelor
of Music course and the double degree Bachelor of Music/Bachelor of Commerce in the same
institutions in Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur. The following courses are currently being
re-written in DE mode for offshore first year BMus teaching. MUS1980.06/MUS1990.06 Chief
Practical Study, MUS100.06 Asian and Australian Music and Popular Culture (i.e. the
existing OLA 12 course) MUS1040.06 American Music and Popular Culture and MUS1060.06
Gamelan Performing Arts.
SUMMARY
The department’s ongoing course restructuring is based on three principles:
i.. the need to rationalise its courses, i.e. to teach fewer, bigger classes
ii. the need to include a practical music skills course throughout second year
iii the department’s offshore teaching projects which are currently in
preparation.
The Department wishes to abolish MUS2470 Early Music Ensemble, MUS2480/3480 Performance
Studies: Indonesian Gamelan, MUM5040 Medieval & Renaissance Music and the annnually
rotating genre study courses: MUS3130/4140/MUM4130 Theatrical Music, MUS3170/4180/MUM4180
Chamber Music, MUS3190/4200/MUM4200 Keyboard Music, MUS3210/4220/MUM4220 Vocal Music.
It foreshadows the merging or offering of on campus and/or in Distance Education mode
several courses as mentioned above.
Margaret Kartomi
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TAD3301
MAKING ART AND DESIGN: CULTURAL CONTEXTS 3A.
6 points • One 2 hour seminar, One 1 hour tutorial weekly • Semester One
• Caulfield • Prerequisites: two second year level Theory of Art and Design
subjects • Co-requisites: None • Prohibitions: TAD2301, TAD2311, TAD3311 •
Elective
Objectives
On successful completion of this subject, students should:
1. have a greater understanding and appreciation of the perceived and actual role of
the artist and designer in society.
2. be aware of and have a sensitive appreciation of cultural differences in the contexts
and practices of the Asia-Pacific region.
3. be able to undertake their chosen practice with increase self-awareness of the
potential and actual impact of their work upon the greater culture.
4. have refined their research and analytical skills, enabling them to make astute and
informed evaluations of visual art practices in their own cultures and those of their
region.
5. have a broad knowledge of alternative practices within their own discipline area.
Synopsis:
This subject is discursive and wide-ranging in its approach. It traverses broad
questions about the spiritual role, the function, rights and responsibilities of visual
arts practitioners across time and cultures, with particular emphasis on the Aboriginal,
Asian and Pacific cultures of our region. How does the visual artist or designer shape,
challenge, translate and contribute to the culture in which he or she practises? How and
why does this position vary across cultures? What constraints do differing cultural values
and demands of social responsibility impose upon the artist/ designer conceptually and in
practice? What is the notion of "artistic" freedom? Is such a notion culturally
and historically bound only to Western art? Do white artists and designers have the right
to use images and motifs from indigenous art and design? Who "owns" art and
design? These types of questions will evolve through exploration of the role and practices
of artists and designers in a range of cultures. While some consideration will be given to
the changing role of artists and designers in pre and post-industrial European culture,
the main focus will be on the practices of indigenous peoples in contemporary Australia
and Asian and Pacific countries and the points of intersection between indigenous and
European artists. The impact of technological innovation and cultural dominance upon
traditional practices will be discussed, as will issues of appropriation, quotation,
hybridity, mimicry, ethics and censorship.
Assessment:
One research paper, 4000 words, 70% and one seminar paper, 30%.
Prescribed text:
Theory of Art and Design Unit, Cultural Contexts 3A, book of readings prepared
by subject coordinator.
Recommended reading:
Students will be assisted with formulating reading lists relating to their specific
areas of research.
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