309605 v.1 Master of Electronic Arts
MElectrnArts(Curtin)
Course CRICOS Code: 055644J
Registered full-time Duration for International Onshore Students on student visas: 1.5 Years
Introduction
Electronic arts do not simply present technical challenges, they create a range of new conceptual, linguistic and philosophical problems requiring solutions that feed upon the expertise and experience of educators, media practitioners, creative artists, visual thinkers, hardware and software engineers, architects and mathematicians. Electronic arts has the potential to build bridges across divided areas of study to create new areas of research towards real world outcomes.
Course Entry Requirements/Prerequisites
A three-year bachelor's degree or equivalent in any discipline. Applicants without a degree but with substantial and recent relevant experience and who have successfully completed the Graduate Certificate in Electronic Arts with a course weighted average of 70% may be permitted to enter the course.
Recognition of Prior Learning
Applications for recognition of prior learning are assessed on an individual basis.
Duration and Availability
This fee paying course is three semesters full-time or equivalent part-time study.
Intermediate Awards I
A student who has successfully completed the requirements of an approved intermediate award may apply for graduation in that award subject to approval of the Head of School/Department. Fees apply. Intermediate awards approved for this course appear below.
Intermediate Awards II
Graduate Certificate in Electronic Arts, Graduate Diploma in Electronic Arts.
Course Organisation
The Master of Electronic Arts consists of three semesters of full-time (or equivalent part-time) study. Students take three compulsory core units in electronic and interactive arts, a research methods unit, three elective study units to further student'sown research area, and also five electronic art project units related to their specific goals in seeking a qualification in this course. These areas include; digital telecommunications, Internet connectivity, screen-based CD ROM publications, digital film, multimedia installations, intelligent architecture, smart products, robotics, telepresence systems, computer modelling of behaviour, remote sensing devices, cyberspace and virtual reality, artificial life, popular culture, sonic art, video art, project management and web design. Students' optional choices will be dependent on their prior qualifications and experience, and on their goals in undertaking the course. Over the three semesters, students undertake increasingly individualised and advanced work, with the expectation that their final-semester project will be of publishable or publicly usable standard.
Career Opportunities
Graduates of this course will be better equipped to pursue a career at the intersection of art, science and technology, through their practices in the field of developing and presenting electronic technologies in Australia and around the world. Graduates will have ongoing dialogue and contextualisation to represent the current states which informed new industrial developments.
Additional Course Expenses
Students may be expected to purchase a number of textbooks, readers and other essential study materials.
Course Structure |
Hrs/Wk |
Credit |
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Year 1 Semester 1 |
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| 309595 | v.1 | Electronic Arts 511 - Mediated Body | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| 309598 | v.1 | Electronic Arts 591 - Project | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| 309604 | v.1 | Electronic Arts 590 - Research Methods | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| SELECT 1 ELECTIVE | 25.0 | ||||
| 100.0 | |||||
Year 1 Semester 2 |
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| 309597 | v.1 | Electronic Arts 512 - Spatiality and Interactivity | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| 309599 | v.1 | Electronic Arts 592 - Project | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| 309600 | v.1 | # | Electronic Arts 593 - Project | 4.0 | 25.0 |
| SELECT 1 ELECTIVE | 25.0 | ||||
| 100.0 | |||||
Year 2 Semester 1 |
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| 309596 | v.1 | Electronic Arts 613 - Presentation and Representation | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| 309601 | v.1 | Electronic Arts 693 - Project | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| 309602 | v.1 | Electronic Arts 694 - Project | 4.0 | 25.0 | |
| 309603 | v.1 | # | Electronic Arts 695 - Project | 4.0 | 25.0 |
| 100.0 | |||||
| # | As an alternative to this unit, students may select an elective in consultation with the course coordinator. | ||||
Availability
| Year | Location | All* | Internal | Partially Online Internal^ | External | Fully Online# | |
| 2006 | Bentley Campus | Semester 1 | Y | ||||
| 2006 | Bentley Campus | Semester 2 | Y |
The information displayed above refers to study periods and locations where the course is available for first time entry. Students are normally only offered or admitted to a course once.
*The course itself may not be available either solely internally or externally but individual units may be offered in either or both of those modes. Prospective students should contact the Course Coordinator for further information.
^Course and associated units are offered in this mode permitting International Onshore student enrolment.
#Course and associated units are offered in this online only mode and DO NOT permit International Onshore student enrolment.
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