I loved this subject. The lectures are a bit slow sometimes but the tutes can be very engaging and are will you will really dig into the art pieces. The selection of artworks was very intentional and mostly well presented. As long as you participate in tutes, you can get a good grasp of how to analyse the artworks and discuss them well in your essays.

Anonymous, Semester 2, 2022

I took this as an arts elective and it was overall a good experience and very interesting. Each lecture (there are two a week) discusses a different piece of art from across the world. There is discussion of Indigenous Australian, Asian, American and Italian art and art made by women, so the pieces chosen are relatively diverse. Each lecture has an accompanying reading, but I mostly skipped all the readings as they were not a good use of my time, since they were rarely discussed in detail in tutorials and were not relevant to the assignments (unless you were writing about that specific art piece). My tutorials were good but a bit repetitive sometimes, it was mostly just class discussion where 1-3 people dominated. The first assignment allows you to discuss any piece of art you like, whilst the second assignment focuses on one of the twenty artworks in the course, which is where the readings for that week would be useful. The take-home exam is really do-able and focuses on the broader themes of the course, so it helps to have seen all the lectures. They give you a reasonable time frame to do it in and it is only 1000 words. Overall, a really good subject, you can do really well if you just watch all the lectures (skip the readings) and conduct good analysis with well developed points in your essays.

Anonymous, Semester 2, 2022