Bachelor of Visual Arts
Sydney College of the Arts
Course Info
Subject
Art and Design
Languages
English
Duration
4 years
Degrees
Bachelor
Course General Description
This hands-on degree is focused on providing you with the conceptual, theoretical and technical skills you need to succeed as a practising artist or in a range of careers in the creative industries. You will be taught by practising artists, writers and curators, whose extensive professional experience and arts industry networks will be of enormous benefit to you. You will be encouraged to work across disciplinary boundaries to realise your ideas. Your studies will be supported by tailored workshops across many areas including ceramics, glass, jewellery, painting, photography, print media, screen arts and sculpture. The art history component of the degree will help you to build research and critical skills. In addition, the degree offers a wide range of electives in contemporary art.Tuition Fees
$37,000Disciplines
Aesthetics and ArtAlgorithm Design
Advanced Media
Animation
Requirements
A secondary education qualification such as the NSW Higher School Certificate (including national and international equivalents), or approved higher education study, including approved preparation courses.applicants are required to submit a portfolio of their artwork. You may submit your portfolio electronically as follows:
UAC applicants – submit your portfolio electronically to SCA by the application deadline.
Direct applicants – upload your portfolio as part of your online application to the University by the application deadline.
You will need to include a short statement of between 200 and 250 words addressing one of the more developed projects in your portfolio. Find out more about portfolio requirements. Late submissions will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
English language requirements where these are not demonstrated by sufficient qualifications taught in English.
Grants and Scholarships
Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Exchange Scholarship Frank McDonald Memorial Fund James Strong-Dymocks Scholarship for Australian Literature The Fauvette Loureiro Memorial Artists Travel Scholarship The Jerome De Costa Memorial Awards The Jerome De Costa Memorial Bachelor of Visual Arts Degree Show Bursary The John Schaeffer Fund for Nineteenth-Century Art (Fieldwork) Zelda Stedman Young Artist Scholarship Zelda Stedman Young Student ScholarshipSchool Info
Region
Oceania
Country
Australia
City
Sydney
Year of Establishment
1974
QS Rank
NA
THE Rank
NA
Webometrics
NA
School General Description
The Sydney College of the Arts (SCA) is a contemporary art school that was a faculty of the University of Sydney from 1990 until 2017, when it became a department. The campus is located in Rozelle, Sydney, Australia and housed within Callan Park in the Kirkbride complex, a cluster of sandstone buildings designed by James Barnet, the government architect, in the late 19th century. It is slated to move to the main Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney in 2020. The college offers internships and work placements, overseas exchange and interdisciplinary collaboration around complex, real-world problems. All of these opportunities will prepare you for your chosen career path.School Contacts
sydney.edu.au/sca
sca.enquiries@sydney.edu.au
+61 2 9351 1000
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