2026 Visual Art and Design Courses

School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.

Many later year courses (2000/3000 level) have pre-requisites. If you meet the pre-requisites for a course, you will be able to self-enrol via your ANUHUb account. If for any reason you cannot self-enrol, you will need to request a permission code by completing an ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) Permission Code Request form.

The CASS Student Office handles all matters related to the student lifecycle for all students who are currently undertaking a CASS program. For advice about how to complete your studies on time and according to the rules, please contact the CASS Student Office.

Courses can be subject to change

Summer Session

ARTV2350 Glass 2, Topic: Alternative Process in Kiln Forming
ARTV2909 The Public Project: Engaging with Institutions and Communities, Topic: Canberra Communities:placemaking and cultural development

Semester 1

Undergraduate

1000 level

ARTV1034 Foundations of Contemporary Arts Practices
ARTV1150 Ceramics 1, Topic: Introduction to Handformed Ceramics
ARTV1350 Glass 1, Topic: Introduction to Glassblowing
ARTV1550 Painting 1, Topic: Introduction to Acrylic Painting
ARTV1650 Photomedia 1, Topic: Introduction to Darkroom Photography
ARTV1651 Moving Image 1, Topic: Introduction to animation and artists' moving image
ARTV1750 Press-based Print 1, Topic: Introduction to Relief Printing
ARTV1850 Sculpture and Spatial Practice 1, Topic: Performance and Installation 1
ARTV1950 Textiles 1, Topic: Woven Worlds: interlaced structures and surfaces
DESN1002 Visual Communication: Design and Production
DESN1004 The Past as Prototype: History, Ethics and Concepts for Design in the Twenty-First Century

2000 level

ARTV2028 Professional Practice Internship (permission code required)
ARTV2066 Art in Context, Topic: Politics of Memory: Video Installation, Sculpture, Documentary and Monuments
ARTV2150 Ceramics 2, Topic: Glaze and Colour
ARTV2550 Painting 2, Topic: Approaches to Composition and Colour in Painting
ARTV2650 Photomedia 2, Topic: Experimental Practices in Photography
ARTV2751 Planographic Print 2, Topic: Proliferation in Print
ARTV2850 Sculpture and Spatial Practice 2, Topic: Politics of Bodies: Sculpture, Figure Modelling,
ARTV2921 Environment Studio: field based research and studio practice in visual arts, Topic: Buugang: Field Program
ARTV2950 Textiles 2, Topic: Plants and Place: locating colour and fibre
DESN2001 Digital Form and Fabrication
DESN2007 Speculative and Critical Design
DESN2010 Making Creative and Critical Technologies: Physical Computing for Design and Art
DESN2015 Mediating Spaces Through Object Design, Topic: Supporting Bodies: Now that we’re here, where do we sit?

3000 level

ARTV3033 Creative Research Practice: Developing an Independent Work Proposal
DESN3010 Design Studio: Independent Practice

Honours

ARTV4022 Research Principles and Methods 1
DESN4011 Design Research: Theory and Methods

Postgraduate

6000 level

DESN6001 Digital Form and Fabrication

9000 level

ARTV9030 Practice-led Research: Writing Methods

Semester 2

Undergraduate

1000 level

ARTV1020 Observational Drawing of the Human Figure
ARTV1150 Ceramics 1, Topic: Introduction to Wheelformed Ceramics
ARTV1350 Glass 1, Topic: Introduction to Glass Kiln Forming
ARTV1550 Painting 1, Topic: Introduction to Oil Painting
ARTV1650 Photomedia 1, Topic: Introduction to Digital Photo-Imaging
ARTV1751 Planographic Print 1, Topic: Introduction to Screenprinting
ARTV1850 Sculpture and Spatial Practice 1, Topic: Woodscapes: Working with wood, time and place
ARTV1950 Textiles 1, Topic: Pattern Making: repeat methods and fabric assemblage
DESN1003 Contemporary Design In Context

2000 level

ARTV2028 Professional Practice Internship (permission code required)
ARTV2150 Ceramics 2, Topic: Ceramic Surface
ARTV2350 Glass 2, Topic: Intermediate and Advanced Glassblowing B
ARTV2550 Painting 2, Topic: Painting in the Photo-Digital Age
ARTV2650 Photomedia 2, Topic: Analogue Practices and the Archive
ARTV2651 Moving Image 2, Topic: Immersion, Interaction & Expan
ARTV2750 Press-based Print 2, Topic: Print and Culture
ARTV2752 Drawing 2, Topic: Drawing Beyond the Line
ARTV2850 Sculpture and Spatial Practice 2, Topic: Politics of Spaces: Installation, Sculpture and Spatial Practice
ARTV2921 Environment Studio: field-based research and studio practice in visual arts, Topic: Balawan: Field Program
ARTV2950 Textiles 2, Topic: Subverting Stitch: Labour, Gender and Image
DESN2004 Autonomous Agents: Natural and Algorithmic Systems in Art and Design
DESN2006 Front-End Web: Crafting Online Experience
DESN2008 Design Thinking: Human-Centred Design Methodologies
DESN2009 Typography in Context
DESN2012 The Ethics of Making: Design for Reparative Practices

3000 level

ARTV3035 Creative Research Practice: Extending and Consolidating an Independent Project
DESN3011 Design Studio: Engagement and Collaboration