Visual Culture
Visual Culture involves a critical engagement with all types of visual expression and communication in society, ranging from the traditional fine arts such a painting and sculpture to recent visual media such as photography, advertising, fashion, film, and cyber-culture.
Various approaches are employed to explore the meaning of the visual. Some units emphasise the social and historical understanding of visual images, frequently drawing on the fields of recent gender or cultural studies, theories of ideology or postcolonial theory. Others consider the visual in the light of psychoanalysis or post-structuralism and methods of deconstruction pertinent to the discipline.
Visual Culture is offered in the Faculty of Art and Design, with a selection of units taught in the Faculty of Arts.
Staff
Undergraduate unit enquiries
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Telephone: (03) 9905 2140
Email: ECPS.Enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au
Postgraduate program and admission enquiries
Graduate Studies Officer
Telephone: (03) 9905 2277
Email: ECPS.Enquiries@arts.monash.edu.au