Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts (2025)

About this course

Some course providers are also offering a previous version of this course - CUA60520 Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts . Talk to your preferred provider for details.

This qualification reflects the role of individuals who have para-professional level technical, creative and conceptual skills to originate, realise and exhibit a substantial body of resolved work that expresses their own creative vision. Visual artists work within and across many mediums, and their practice may incorporate ceramics, digital art, glasswork, drawing and illustration, jewellery making, painting, photomedia, printmaking, public art, sculpture, textiles or wood design.Practice at this level is underpinned by application of art theory and history, the ability to engage in critical discourse and to debate one’s own work and the work of others. Visual artists may work in their own practice, or a wide range of contexts across the arts, government or commercial organisations and also bring visual arts perspective to areas such as business, community services and science.

Units of study

Core units

Unit title	Unit code
Apply critical thinking for complex problem solving	BSBCRT611
Extend professional expertise with drawing and other visual representation tools	CUAACD611
Originate a body of independent creative work	CUAPPR611
Engage in the business of creative practice	CUAPPR613
Publicly present a body of own creative work	CUAPPR614
Extend cultural research expertise	CUARES612

Elective units

Unit title	Unit code
Originate and develop concepts	BSBCRT512
Research and develop business plans	BSBESB401
Establish legal and risk management requirements of new business ventures	BSBESB402
Plan finances for new business ventures	BSBESB403
Market new business ventures	BSBESB404
Establish operational strategies and procedures for new business ventures	BSBESB406
Manage finances for new business ventures	BSBESB407
Develop and cultivate collaborative partnerships and relationships	BSBLDR812
Apply legal principles in intellectual property law matters	BSBLEG525
Develop personal work priorities	BSBPEF402
Undertake project work	BSBPMG430
Manage project governance	BSBPMG539
Establish innovative work environments	BSBSTR501
Lead innovative thinking and practice	BSBSTR801
Develop workplace policies and procedures for sustainability	BSBSUS511
Write complex documents	BSBWRT411
Integrate colour theory and design processes	CUAACD411
Refine model making skills	CUAACD508
Develop and refine metalworking techniques	CUAACD509
Make moulds and casts	CUAACD511
Refine carving techniques for creative work	CUAACD514
Manage kiln operations	CUAACD520
Work with photomedia in creative practice	CUAACD522
Make mixed media artworks	CUAACD523
Manage specialised finishing processes	CUAACD525
Create observational drawings	CUAACD532
Select and refine a specialised drawing technique	CUAACD533
Research and apply light and colour	CUAACD534
Work with the human form in creative practice	CUAACD535
Refine 2-D design ideas and processes	CUAACD536
Refine 3-D design ideas and processes	CUAACD537
Extend professional expertise across new art forms and media	CUAACD612
Manage and operate technical requirements for virtual and hybrid events	CUABRT502
Refine ceramics techniques	CUACER511
Refine throwing techniques	CUACER513
Refine handbuilding techniques	CUACER514
Develop and apply ceramic glazes	CUACER515
Manage copyright arrangements	CUACMP511
Explore the use of colour	CUADES301
Implement design solutions	CUADES511
Establish, negotiate and refine a design brief	CUADES512
Design virtual and hybrid events	CUADES523
Design innovative products	CUADES601
Manage design realisation	CUADES611
Research global design trends	CUADES612
Research and apply design theory	CUADES801
Refine digital art techniques	CUADIG518
Investigate technologies for the creation of digital art	CUADIG519
Refine drawing techniques	CUADRA501
Investigate drawing materials and processes	CUADRA502
Source funding for projects	CUAFIM511
Refine glassworking techniques	CUAGLA501
Investigate glassworking materials and processes	CUAGLA502
Refine kiln cast glass techniques	CUAGLA513
Develop professional illustrations	CUAILL511
Refine illustration techniques	CUAILL512
Work professionally in the creative arts industry	CUAIND611
Realise an installation work	CUAINS601
Refine painting techniques	CUAPAI511
Apply visual communication theory to photo imaging practice	CUAPHI531
Explore and apply photo lighting techniques	CUAPHI533
Establish and maintain environmentally sustainable creative practice	CUAPPR514
Establish and maintain safe creative practice	CUAPPR515
Collaborate in professional creative projects	CUAPPR612
Evolve ideas for professional creative work	CUAPPR615
Extend expertise in a specialised art form to professional level	CUAPPR616
Refine printmaking techniques	CUAPRI511
Investigate printmaking materials and processes	CUAPRI512
Create works of art for public spaces	CUAPUA511
Realise a public art project	CUAPUA611
Critique cultural works	CUARES502
Refine sculptural techniques	CUASCU511
Apply traditional techniques to jewellery or 3D object production	MEM19038
Plan, conduct and supervise a jewellery or object exhibition or program	MEM19039
Oversee jewellery or object design production	MEM19043
Design and produce experimental textiles	MSTAT5007
Design and produce printed textiles	MSTAT5008
Develop a textile product range	MSTAT6004
Identify and handle fabrics and textiles	MSTGN2023
Develop textile designs using digital software	MSTGN5016
Research and analyse textile materials	MSTGN5018
Manage strategic contracts	PSPPCM023
Obtain and manage sponsorship	SITXMPR015
Facilitate vocational training	TAEDEL411

Course providers

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Locations: Melbourne City (Melbourne)
Delivery modes: Full time on-campus
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