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Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design | The College of Fine Arts

Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design

Fully Online Postgraduate Coursework Program

APPLICATIONS CLOSE July 1 2008 for Mid-year intake, Session 2 2008 (beginning July 21). Please click the 'How to apply' link at the bottom of the page for more information.

The Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design is a fully online postgraduate coursework degree. The online nature of the program allows flexibility to study at times that suit a busy lifestyle. It offers you the opportunity to experience, better understand and work within a range of creative disciplines, to enhance and strengthen your own creative process and practice.

Study online from Australia or any location worldwide!

You will experience online study with students from different creative backgrounds, professional experiences, locations and cultures. The program will explore theoretical and practical connections between a wide range of creative disciplines, offering you valuable individual and collaborative skills and knowledge in line with contemporary cross-disciplinary creative art and design practice.

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
Throughout the program, a series of sequential core courses containing guest lectures from professional cross-disciplinary artists and designers, will contextualise your study in a cross-disciplinary creative context. You can tailor your study to suit your own needs by choosing from a wide range of creative electives such as:

• COFA0901 Graphics and Contemporary Society
• COFA0902 Design, Interactivity and Emerging Media
• COFA0905 Curating Art and Exhibitions
• COFA0907 Textiles: Technology and the Body
• COFA0908 Fashion 1980 – Now
• COFA0909 Cross Cultural Sculpture
• COFA0910 Visual Identity in the Built Environment
• COFA0911 Print Advertising for a World Market
• COFA0912 Textiles for Interiors - Senses and Spaces
• COFA0913 Contemporary Aesthetics in Digital Architecture
• COFA0914 Creative Thinking Processes
• COFA0915 Society Through the Lens
• COFA0917 The Art of Scientific Visualisation
• COFA0918 Experiencing and Understanding Art
• COFA0919 Digital Illustration for Concept Art
• COFA0920 Iconic Spaces: Retail, Exhibition and Hospitality
• COFA0221 Draw Your World
• COFA0922 Unraveling Urban Design
• COFA0923 Visualising the Past
• COFA0925 Creative Character Design
• COFA0927 Performance Art
• COFA0928 Making Digital Holograms
• COFA0929 Making Analogue Holograms

For more information about the courses in this degree, please click the 'Online postgraduate course handbook information' link at the bottom of the page.

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
The Master of Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design is a flexible professional development degree, highly appropriate for those:

• wishing to extend their undergraduate creative studies
• deciding to make a career change to a creative profession
• currently employed in creative professions who wish to extend their cross-disciplinary
capabilities and knowledge

The program also aims to improve your value to an employer in any creative industry by providing collaboration and communication skills, essential in contemporary cross-disciplinary creative practice.

APPLY NOW TO BEGIN IN SESSION 2 2008!

The online nature of this program makes it ideal for students from anywhere in the world. International students can now study at an Australian University without leaving your own home, or having to organise a Visa!

You can choose to study Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design at different levels to suit your own requirements:

• Graduate Certificate     (1 Session - 0.5 years)
• Graduate Diploma        (2 sessions - 1 year)
• Masters                       (3 sessions – 1.5 years)