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So Arts is a place where you can do a variety of specialist programs.
We like to think that we cover the whole spectrum
of Arts based subjects and we skill and equip our
students to go out and find either a career which
suited to their particular talents or give them
the tools and mechanisms to search for that career.
One of the great things about the Faculty is that
over the past four or five years we've been able to
restructure and renew large parts of the teaching environment.
With new ways of teaching in mind,
so that particularly at graduate level and the
upper levels of the Bachelor's program the focus
is on much more interactive learning.
I think one of the great strengths of the University of Melbourne
is how it synchronises with the wider city of which it is a part.
All the great cultural, outstanding cultural capacities
of this city breathe through the structure of the
Graduate School itself and of the wider University.
So in coming to the University of Melbourne,
you really are getting the full Melbourne experience
which many people around the world are seeking.
There is a sort of passionate quality about most Art Students,
they're here because they really really do love
what they're learning, but what draws them
to their discipline or to their area of study
or to their degree, is a tremendous sense of
enthusiasm and excitement for the field.
The work they do is not simply instrumental,
not simply about wanting to develop a skill set
it's also how think of their own identity
and their own personal development.
We give our students the best opportunity to apply their
theoretical knowledge in a practical environment.
You can walk into a first year classroom and find
lecturing in front of you somebody who's just
finished the book on that subject and is able to not only
give obviously a rendition of their own work,
but is right at the apex of world wide expertise in the field.
We pride ourselves on being a University
with a long and proud tradition but which has
remained at the cutting edge when it comes to
engagement with the wider world outside of it.
If your ambition is simply to hide from the world
this is not an appropriate place for you to be.
If you want to come and understand how
we understand the world,
how scholars, not just contemporary ones,
but across history, have understood the problems
and potentials of mankind,
doing it here at Melbourne will prepare you
to go out into the world and to make the difference.