Bachelor of Photography - Plan BP117P26

Bachelor of Photography - Plan BP117P26

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Full-time 3 years
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Next intake:
February, July
Location:
Melbourne City
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Duration:
Full-time 3 years
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AU$42,240 (2026 annual)

Next intake:
February, July
Location:
Melbourne City

CRICOS code: 118027J

To graduate you must complete the following: All courses listed may not be available each semester

To graduate you must complete a total of 288 credit points as follows:
Year 1: Six (6) core courses (72 credit points) and two (2) courses (24 credit points) from your chosen combination.
Year 2: Eight (8) courses (96 credit points) from your chosen combination.
Year 3: 24 One capstone course (24 credit points) and six courses (72 credit points) from your chosen combination.
Combination 1: Complete one (1) Major (96 credit points) and two (2) Minors (48 credit points each = total 96 credit points). A minimum of one minor must be from either the Program minor list or School of Art minor list.
Combination 2: Complete one (1) Major (96 credit points), one (1) Minor (48 credit points) and 48 credit points of Program Option courses.
Combination 3: Complete two (2) Majors (96 credit points each = total 192 credit points).
Details of Majors and Minors can be found at the end of the program structure.
Program Option = any course from the Minors list or the Program Options list that you have not previously completed.
NOTE: If you use a course toward the completion of a major or minor, you cannot use that same course again. The Major must commence in your second semester of first year. Minors should commence first semester of second year.
NOTE: You cannot choose a Minor in the same area as your Major but are encouraged to choose an area that broadens and/or complements your main area of study and that relates to your future goals and career direction. If choosing the option of two Majors, you cannot do a Minor or Program Options.

Students must complete a series of compulsory onboarding modules during their first semester or study period. Complete 72 credit points from the following:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Photography Foundation 12 VART3824 City Campus
Contemporary Materials & Processes 12 VART3592 City Campus
Place and Context 12 VART3794 City Campus
Digital Materialities in Creative Practice 12 VART3765 City Campus
Photography - Illusion & Reality 12 VART3594 City Campus
Digital Skills for Photography 12 VART3816 City Campus

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Complete 24 credit points from your chosen combination:

Complete 96 credit points from your chosen combination

Complete 72 credit points from your chosen combination

AND

Complete 24 credit points from the following:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Photography Major Project 24 VART3599 City Campus

List of Program Majors:

Complete 96 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Location Imaging 12 VART1710 City Campus
Photographic Lighting 12 VART3596 City Campus
Translating Spaces: Architectural and Interior Photography 12 VART3828 City Campus
Contemporary Photographic Practice 12 VART3814 City Campus
Transforming Objects: Contemporary Product Photography 12 VART3827 City Campus
Expanded Photographic Practice 12 VART3819 City Campus
Fashion Photography Futures 12 VART3820 City Campus
Cultures of Photography 12 VART3039 City Campus

Complete 96 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Documentary Photography 12 VART3817 City Campus
Photographic Lighting 12 VART3596 City Campus
Picturing Power 12 VART3825 City Campus
Contemporary Photographic Practice 12 VART3814 City Campus
Counter Investigations 12 VART3815 City Campus
Expanded Photographic Practice 12 VART3819 City Campus
Documentary Project 12 VART3818 City Campus
Cultures of Photography 12 VART3039 City Campus
Photojournalism 12 COMM2640 City Campus

Complete 96 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Photographic Material Thinking 12 VART3822 City Campus
Photographic Lighting 12 VART3596 City Campus
Photography and Environment 12 VART3823 City Campus
Contemporary Photographic Practice 12 VART3814 City Campus
The Performed Image: Photography and Identity 12 VART3826 City Campus
Expanded Photographic Practice 12 VART3819 City Campus
Photographic Exhibition Practice 12 VART3821 City Campus
Cultures of Photography 12 VART3039 City Campus

List of School of Art Majors

Complete 48 credit points from the following courses: 
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Expanded Media Arts Studio 1 12 OART1121 City Campus
Expanded Media Arts Studio 2 12 OART1122 City Campus
Expanded Media Arts Studio 3 12 OART1123 City Campus
Expanded Media Arts Studio 4 12 OART1124 City Campus

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Complete 48 credit points from the following courses: 
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
AI for Creative Practice 12 OART1118 City Campus
Digital Dimensions: 3D Modelling and Extended Reality (XR) 12 OART1120 City Campus
Temporal Drawing 12 VART2022 City Campus
Photographic Material Thinking 12 VART3822 City Campus
Picturing Power 12 VART3825 City Campus
Projection, Light and Optics 12 VART3801 City Campus
Sound Art, Composition and Installation 12 VART3808 City Campus
Video Art 12 VART3464 City Campus

List of Program Minors:

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Location Imaging 12 VART1710 City Campus
Translating Spaces: Architectural and Interior Photography 12 VART3828 City Campus
Transforming Objects: Contemporary Product Photography 12 VART3827 City Campus
Fashion Photography Futures 12 VART3820 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Documentary Photography 12 VART3817 City Campus
Picturing Power 12 VART3825 City Campus
Counter Investigations 12 VART3815 City Campus
Documentary Project 12 VART3818 City Campus
Photojournalism 12 COMM2640 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Photographic Material Thinking 12 VART3822 City Campus
Photography and Environment 12 VART3823 City Campus
The Performed Image: Photography and Identity 12 VART3826 City Campus
Photographic Exhibition Practice 12 VART3821 City Campus

List of School of Art Minors

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Art Theory: Society and Environment 12 HUSO2453 City Campus
Art Theory: Materiality and Technology 12 HUSO2452 City Campus
Twentieth Century Art: Global Modernisms and Beyond 12 HUSO2455 City Campus
Art and Social Practice 12 VART3749 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
AI for Creative Practice 12 OART1118 City Campus
Digital Dimensions: 3D Modelling and Extended Reality (XR) 12 OART1120 City Campus
Temporal Drawing 12 VART2022 City Campus
Photographic Material Thinking 12 VART3822 City Campus
Picturing Power 12 VART3825 City Campus
Projection, Light and Optics 12 VART3801 City Campus
Sound Art, Composition and Installation 12 VART3808 City Campus
Video Art 12 VART3464 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Art and Social Practice 12 VART3749 City Campus
Working Collaboratively: Forms for Encounter and Exchange 12 OART1125 City Campus
Creative Practice in Place: Working on unceded lands 12 VART3627 City Campus
Blue Sky Lab: Expanding Art Practice through Fieldwork 12 VART3753 City Campus
Performance and Live Art 12 VART3504 City Campus
Public Art Projects 12 VART2027 City Campus
Creative Enterprise 12 OART1119 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Artists' Books 12 VART3480 City Campus
Photographic Screenprinting 12 VART3478 City Campus
Photographic Etching: From Unique to Multiple 12 VART3793 City Campus
Print (Re)Generations 12 VART3797 City Campus
Drawing Elective 12 VART1325 City Campus
Capture, Translate and Synthesise 12 VART3505 City Campus
Drawing, Perception and the Body 12 VART3768 City Campus
Painting Elective 12
VART1316 City Campus
VART3744 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
States of Abstraction 12 VART3809 City Campus
Contemporary Figuration 12 VART3763 City Campus
Art, Culture and Bio-materiality 12 VART3752 City Campus
Painting: Migration and Global Mobilities 12 VART3791 City Campus
Ceramics Skills 1: Hand Forming and Surface 12 VART3757 City Campus
3D Printed Objects 12 VART3473 City Campus
Jewellery and Material Skills 1: Additive Technologies 12 VART3784 City Campus
Sculpture Skills 1: Constructing Ideas 12 VART3804 City Campus
Soft Sculpture 12 VART3807 City Campus
Installation Art 12 VART3780 City Campus

List of Interdisciplinary Minors:

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Gender 12 COMM2925 City Campus
Gender, Development and Globalisation 12 HUSO2092 City Campus
Global Feminisms 12 HUSO2388 City Campus
Rethinking Masculinities 12 COMM2926 City Campus
Feminist and Queer Perspectives 12 COMM2879 City Campus
Gender, Communication and Social Change 12 COMM2927 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Digital Communication 12 COMM2906 City Campus
Precision Writing for Digital Engagement 12 COMM2913 City Campus
Social Media Communication 12 COMM2872 City Campus
Digital Audiences and Analytics 12 COMM2916 City Campus
Communication Platforms and Industries 12 COMM2917 City Campus
Managing Digital Challenges 12 COMM2914 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Advertising 12
MKTG1208 City Campus
MKTG1358 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Message and Media Strategy 12 COMM2908 City Campus
Creativity for Advertising 12 GRAP3027 City Campus
Storytelling for Advertising 12 GRAP3029 City Campus
Art Direction for Advertising 12 GRAP3028 City Campus
People and Persuasion 12 COMM2909 City Campus

Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Journalism Essentials 12 COMM3011 City Campus
Journalism Law and Ethics 12 COMM2836 City Campus

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Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Fact Checking and Verification 12 COMM2803 City Campus
Journalism Reporting and Writing 12 COMM2835 City Campus
Podcasting 12 COMM2870 City Campus
Photojournalism 12 COMM2640 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Contemporary Asian Modernities 12
COMM2878 City Campus
COMM2933 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Asian Media and Communication 12 COMM2871 City Campus
Asian Mobilities: Practices, Experiences and Impacts 12 COMM2873 City Campus
Exploring Asian Popular Culture 12
COMM2345 City Campus
COMM2792 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Sex, Politics & Social Change in Asia 12 COMM2253 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Rhetorics & Politics of the Contemporary World 12 COMM2402 City Campus
Politics and Communication 12 COMM2409 City Campus
Changing Economies and Communication 12 COMM2408 City Campus
Screening Politics and Technologies 12 COMM2636 City Campus
Work, Politics and Technology 12 COMM2407 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Foundations of Artificial Intelligence for STEM 12
COSC2960 City Campus
COSC3094 Bundoora Campus
Mixed Reality Technologies 12 INTE2686 City Campus
Digital Fluency 12 INTE2687 City Campus
Digital Innovation Project 12 INTE2688 City Campus

Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Sustainable Futures 12 ENVI1153 City Campus
Climate Change Responses 12
ENVI1212 City Campus
ENVI1219 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam

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Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
The Science of Climate and Biodiversity 12 ENVI1211 City Campus
Environmental Management and Assessment 12 ENVI1049 City Campus
Building Responsible Relationships with First Peoples and Country 12 ENVI1048 City Campus
Communicating Sustainability 12 ENVI1137 City Campus
Development Economics 12 ECON1259 City Campus
Energy and Earth's Environment 12 PHYS2066 City Campus
Environmental Policy Project 12 ENVI1179 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Strategic Branding 12 GRAP3060 City Campus
Identity Systems 12 GRAP3061 City Campus
Industry-Partnered Branding Studio 12 GRAP3048 City Campus
Experimental Branding Studio 12 GRAP3052 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Type Design 12 GRAP3054 City Campus
Editorial Design 12 GRAP3055 City Campus
Experimental Typography Studio 12 GRAP3050 City Campus
Industry-Partnered Typography Studio 12 GRAP3046 City Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
The Foundations of Entrepreneurship 12
BUSM1311 City Campus
BUSM4382 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Applied Entrepreneurship 12
BUSM4052 City Campus
BUSM4455 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Driving Innovation in Organisations 12
BUSM1321 City Campus
BUSM4469 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Entrepreneurship and Global Challenges 12
BUSM4054 City Campus
BUSM4540 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam

Complete 48 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to the teaching profession 12 TCHE2624 Bundoora Campus
Inclusive Teaching 12 TCHE2702 Bundoora Campus
Student and Teacher Well-being 12 TCHE2701 Bundoora Campus
Engaging with Indigenous Perspectives for Responsible Teaching Practice 12 TCHE2456 Bundoora Campus

Complete 48 credit points from the following
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Introduction to Cinema Studies 12
COMM1031 City Campus
COMM2905 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Film Criticism: From Early Cinema to the Digital Age 12 COMM2880 City Campus
Border Crossings: Cinema, Community and Nation 12
COMM2876 City Campus
COMM2934 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam
Beyond the Frame: Technologies, Industries and Audiences 12 COMM2875 City Campus
Uses of Film Theory 12 COMM1036 City Campus

Complete 12 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Making Media 12
COMM2674 City Campus
COMM2741 Melbourne transfer to Vietnam

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Complete 24 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Media 2 24 COMM2625 City Campus
Media 3 24 COMM2626 City Campus

AND

Complete 12 credit points from the following:
Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Live Media 12 COMM2220 City Campus
Podcasting 12 COMM2870 City Campus

List of Program Option Courses:

Course Title Credit Points Course Code Campus
Creative Practice in Place: Working on unceded lands 12 VART3627 City Campus
Twentieth Century Art: Global Modernisms and Beyond 12 HUSO2455 City Campus
Art Theory: Society and Environment 12 HUSO2453 City Campus
Art Theory: Materiality and Technology 12 HUSO2452 City Campus
Art and Social Practice 12 VART3749 City Campus
Working Collaboratively: Forms for Encounter and Exchange 12 OART1125 City Campus
Art Global Intensive 1 12 HUSO1072 City Campus
Art Global Intensive 2 12 VART3668 City Campus
Art Studio Intensive 24 VART3669 City Campus
The Photographic Fine Print 12 VART3481 City Campus
Internship 12 VART3510 City Campus
Creative Enterprise 12 OART1119 City Campus
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