Study Abroad and Student Exchange

Studio subject areas: Ceramics, Drawing, Jewellery and Metalsmithing, Painting, Photography and Electronic Arts, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, and Theory and History of Art.

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Semester One

Undergraduate (Bachelor of Visual Arts) (Level 6) 

Year 2 

(60 credits equivalent to 30 credits ECTS) 

• Studio Methodologies 3 (BVA year 2) 15 Credits 
• Studio Practice 3 (A,B,C) (BVA year 2) 45 Credits 

Studio Methodologies explores drawing for studio and a range of approaches to studio making in year 2 of the BVA. It considers important works, contexts and concepts of making in the visual arts, enabling you to recognise and develop models and practice for studio. 

Studio Practice allows you to develop your practical skills within our nationally unique range of workshops. You can choose from our wide range of studio subject areas – Painting, Photography and Electronic Arts, Printmaking, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Jewellery and Metalsmithing. The Year 2 programme of BVA Studio Practice 3 enables exchange and/ or Study Abroad students to flexibly combine work in different studios during their time at the Dunedin School of Art (this option requires forward planning with the International Liaison for the DSA, and each coordinator of the chosen studio). Studio Practice 3 papers are set by each studio and cover specific skills and theory relating to that studio’s history and contemporary engagements. 

Year 3 (Level 7) 

(60 credits equivalent to 30 credits ECTS) 

• Studio Research (BVA year 3) 15 Credits 
• Studio Practice 5 (BVA year 3) 45 Credits 

The Studio Research course strengthens students’ engagement with and understanding of a range of contemporary art history and theory research approaches in order to demonstrate essay writing and seminar presentation skills relevant to their practice. 

Studio Practice allows you to develop your practical skills within our nationally unique range of workshops. You can choose from our wide range of studio subject areas – Ceramics, Drawing, Jewellery and Metalsmithing, Painting, Photography and Electronic Arts, Printmaking, Sculpture, Textiles, and Theory and History of Art. 

Year 3 of our BVA Studio Practice 5 is based on the beginnings of a sustainable individual project. Students are guided through individual and group learning situations to extend and challenge their practice. 

Postgraduate (Master of Fine Arts) (Level 9) 

(60 Credits equivalent to 30 Credits ECTS) 

The Master of Fine Arts is an applied research degree benchmarked against national and international standards with a distinct emphasis on the relationship between making and writing. The programme is shaped by your proposal and can be completed in one discipline, or across several. 

Candidates for the MFA exchange must have completed at least one semester of study at the corresponding programme offered by their home institution and will only be accepted into the equivalent of Year 1 Semester 2, or Year 2 Semester 1 at the Dunedin School of Art. 

Students will receive both studio and writing supervision from assigned supervisors, and have regular individual and group contact in the form of seminars, presentations and critiques. Students will be provided with studio space and access to the school’s workshops and facilities during the exchange. 

Semester Two

Undergraduate (BVA) (Level 6) 

Year 2 

(60 credits equivalent to 30 credits ECTS) 

• Art History and Theory 3 (BVA year 2) 15 Credits 
• Studio Methodologies 4 (BVA year 2) 15 Credits 
• Studio Practice 4, Studio (BVA year 2) 15 Credits 
• Studio Practice 4, Research (BVA year 2) 15 Credits 

The Art History and Theory course considers case studies of important works, contexts and concepts for the visual arts, enabling you to recognise the breadth of material available to you as models and challenges. 

Studio Methodologies explores exhibition practices and professional practices considering a range of approaches to studio making in year 2 of the BVA. It engages with important works, contexts, processes and 

concepts of making in the visual arts, enabling you to recognise and develop models and practice for studio. 

Studio Practice provides opportunities for self-initiated study and research in your chosen studio, and to develop your practical skills within our nationally unique range of workshops. You can choose from our wide range of studio subject areas – Painting, Printmaking, Photography and Electronic Arts, Sculpture, Ceramics, Textiles, Jewellery and Metalsmithing. In Year 

2 of our BVA, Studio papers are set by each studio covering specific skills and theory relating to that studio’s history. The work undertaken in studio will contextualise contemporary making, provoking new and different engagements between the work of art and the context of making art today.