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Higher Diploma in Visual Arts and Culture
The programme offers all-rounded immersion in contemporary visual arts media and engages students actively with the cultural industries at large. Through collaboration and innovation with the arts sector, the programme creates a lively environment where interdisciplinary arts projects flourish. Graduates are also nurtured to become professional arts practitioners.
From the conceptual to the practical, the programme provides a dynamic and vibrant environment that inspires students to experiment with ideas and develop their own artistic language to encourage originalities in art creation. Graduates are cultivated to steer and support their art concepts based on theoretical insights, practical skills and understanding of culture. With faculty mentoring, such concepts can be developed as professional fine art works as well as basis for entrepreneurial ideas.
Integration with the arts community is promoted through collaborative work with visiting fellows or artists-in-residence, museum or gallery visits, exhibitions and internships. Such synergy not only enhances their passion for creative engagement, but also enriches their practical know-how. The latitude of experience deepens their understanding in the fields of visual arts, culture, curatorial projects and arts management.
The programme is designed with an emphasis on generic, language and communication training, whole-person development and workplace experience to better prepare students for further studies and employment after graduation.
Please refer to General Entrance Requirement
Apart from professional artists, graduates will have full potential to take up other career opportunities. These include graphic designers, illustrators, photographers, exhibition designers, visual merchandisers, etc. They may also be art administrators at the assistant level in art centres, gallery, cultural and educational organisation to run cultural programmes or art exhibitions. The graduates are capable to be future entrepreneurs who can turn concepts into art entrepreneurial ideas or they can be curators, critics, educators, cultural programme administrators in the future.
Graduates may articulate to the Degree programmes offered by Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi):
• Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Digital Advertising
Graduates may pursue relevant Degrees locally or overseas. They are eligible to apply for admission to top-up Degree programme offered by the following university in collaboration with the School for Higher and Professional Education (SHAPE):
• University of the West of England Bristol, UK: BA (Hons) Fine Arts# [Not applicable to Mainland students]
(Registration Number of Non-local Higher and Professional Education: 253254)
# It is a matter of discretion for individual employers to recognise any qualification to which this course may lead. Please refer to the corresponding programme page in the website of SHAPE.
Graduates may also apply for admission to relevant Degree programmes of local universities:
• The Hong Kong Baptist University: BA (Hons) in Visual Arts
• Lingnan University: BA (Hons) in Visual Studies
• The Chinese University of Hong Kong: BA in Fine Arts
• The Education University of Hong Kong: BA (Hons) in Creative Arts and Culture (Visual Arts)
• The Hong Kong Polytechnic University: BA (Hons) in Product Design
Upon admission to relevant Degree programmes, graduates may apply for credit exemption. The level of exemption will be considered on individual basis.
Students are eligible to apply for student membership of the Graphic Arts Association of Hong Kong (GAAHK) and the Hong Kong Designers Association (HKDA).
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1.Students may be required to attend classes on other VTC campuses. VTC reserves the right to cancel any programme, revise programme title, content or change the offering institute(s) / campus(es) / class venue(s) if circumstances so warrant. |
Semester 1:
• Creative and Design Thinking
• 3D Visual Expression: Object and Space
• Drawing
• Introduction to History of Visual Arts
• Photography and Moving Image
• Essential Workplace Communication: Effective Oral Interaction
• Whole Person Development - MindShift: Achieving Personal Growth & Effectiveness
• IT Essentials - Smart Living
Semester 2:
• Cultural Studies
• 2D Visual Expression: Image Making
• Contemporary Hong Kong Art
• Digital Media and Sound
• Expanded Studies: Workshop Practice I
• Vocational Chinese Communication: Putonghua Conversation and Reports
• Essential Workplace Communication: Digital Written Correspondence
• Whole Person Development - Collaboration, Teamwork & Social Engagement (Part 1)
Semester 3:
• Aesthetics and Semiotics
• Master Class / Visiting Artist
• Expanded Studies: Workshop Practice II
• Professional Workplace Communication: Storytelling and Job Search
• Whole Person Development - Collaboration, Teamwork & Social Engagement (Part 2)
Semester 4:
• Independent Studies
• Introduction to Arts Project Management
• Introduction to Asian Art
• Visual Arts Research and Analysis
• Expanded Studies: Community Art
• Vocational Chinese Communication: Putonghua Presentations and Promotional Text Writing
• Professional Workplace Communication: Proposal and Report Writing
• Enrichment Module A
Semester 5:
• Professional Practice: Exhibition and Career Management
• World Culture
• Graduation Project for Visual Arts and Culture
• Professional Workplace Communication: Pitching and Persuasive Presentation
• Whole Person Development - Enhancing Competencies in the 21st Century Workplace
• Enrichment Module B
Modules Across Semesters:
• Industrial Attachment