CUA51120 Diploma of Visual Arts
Refine your skills and bring your ideas to life
This course provides you with opportunities to focus on painting, print media, ceramics, sculpture and digital art. You'll refine your skills in classes delivered in excellent facilities in the creative and cultural heart of the city.
Overview
Campus Perth
When Semester 1, 2025
How On campus
Take your art to a higher level
This course will develop your skills and knowledge in selected areas of visual art and craft, with options to focus on painting, print media, ceramics, sculpture and digital art. You'll refine these skills in studio classes designed to bring your ideas into reality.
This diploma will enable you to take on complicated art projects with a developed skill set and knowledge of various materials and mediums.
Our art and craft facilities are purpose built to a high standard of equipment and facilities. Students also benefit from the close proximity to the Perth Cultural Centre which is home to the Art Gallery of WA, PICA and many other smaller galleries.
A successful career in visual arts will require you to promote yourself and look outside the square when it comes to gaining employment. You can work on small or large scale public art projects or work as a freelance artist. You can also combine your studies with other courses and become a teacher or work in arts administration.
This course is only offered in semester one of each year.
- Analyse cultural history and theory
- Develop a sustainable professional practice
- Establish and maintain a safe creative practice
- Develop and create a body of work
I have the following attributes:
- Creativity, imagination and artistic skill
- Dedication, confidence and self-motivation
- Happy to develop promotion and business skills, as most artists are self-employed in a very competitive industry
Important information
Select your preferred campus and apply
Semester 1, 2025
Details
Course fees
(Tuition fee* $4,429.35 + Resource fee $1,210.00 )
*Fee disclaimers
The fees quoted are estimates only and are for the entire course for students enrolling on a full-time basis. Please view the full list of Fee disclaimers.
Please note fees listed include all units required to gain this qualification. If you're a continuing student and have successfully completed a lower-level qualification that is a prerequisite for this course, you'll only pay for the units that you need to enrol in, to complete this course.
Enquiries regarding fees can be made by calling us.
Units
Core
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| CUAACD531 | Refine drawing and other visual representation tools |
| CUAPPR511 | Realise a body of creative work |
| CUAPPR512 | Develop sustainability of own professional practice |
| CUAPPR513 | Present a body of own creative work |
| CUAPPR515 | Establish and maintain safe creative practice |
Elective
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| BSBMKG546 | Develop social media engagement plans |
| BSBWRT411 | Write complex documents |
| CUAACD511 | Make moulds and casts |
| CUAACD522 | Work with photomedia in creative practice |
| CUAACD534 | Research and apply light and colour |
| CUAACD535 | Work with the human form in creative practice |
| CUACER511 | Refine ceramics techniques |
| CUAILL401 | Develop and refine illustrative work |
| CUAPRI512 | Investigate printmaking materials and processes |
| CUARES503 | Analyse cultural history and theory |
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