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• Code ARTH2181

• Unit Value 6 units

• Offered by School of Art and Design

• ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
• Course subject Art History

• Areas of interest Art History, Visual Arts, Museums and Collections, Digital Humanities, Design

• Academic career UGRD

• Mode of delivery In Person
• Offered in

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Digital Approaches to Art History and Curatorship (ARTH2181)

• Introduction
• Learning Outcomes
• Indicative Assessment
• Workload
• Inherent Requirements
• Requisite and Incompatibility
• Prescribed Texts
• Fees
• Offerings and Dates

This course introduces basic skills for applying digital methods to art history and curatorship. Students will get hands-on experience with hardware and software to learn how to identify and create a data set for research; how to tell stories with simple but effective software; how to create digital maps to locate objects of study geographically; how to create 3D models; and how to curate digital exhibitions as websites, catalogues, and exhibition walkthroughs.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

1. critically evaluate the key principles of digital humanities research for art history and curatorship;
2. demonstrate a basic competency in a range of skills for digital methods for art history and curatorship;
3. discover a range of hardware and software required for a basic application of digital methods for art history and curatorship; and
4. explain the application of digital approaches to art history and curatorship.

Indicative Assessment

1. Project development 1 -- define project (1,000 words) (20) [LO 1]
2. Project development 2 -- draft digital project (equivalent to 1,500 words ) (40) [LO 2,3]
3. Project showcase presentation -- final digital project (equivalent to 2,000 words) (40) [LO 2,4]

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Workload

130 hours of total student learning time made up from:

a) 36 hours of contact over 12 weeks: 24 hours of practical seminar and 12 hours of assisted lab work; and

b) 94 hours of independent student research and project development.

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed 12 units of 1,000 level courses.

Prescribed Texts

Not applicable

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.

Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students\ If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. 

Student Contribution Band: : 14

Unit value: : 6 units

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2027

Second Semester