B.F.A. (Applied Art) Introduction to Subsidiary Subject Syllabus - Mumbai University
This is the University of Mumbai syllabus for the B.F.A. (Applied Art), the Revised Course approved under Item No. 4.30 and in force from the academic year 2004-2005. It is old, and it is current: the University still examines this scheme, and the subjects below are the ones set in its Summer 2026 examinations. It is the only B.F.A. (Applied Art) syllabus the University has published.
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Syllabus for Introduction to Subsidiary Subject
What the University sets
- Lectures per Academic Year: 58 Hours
- Paper: Not for Examination
- Tutorials per Academic Year: 02
- Term Work: Term Work shall consist of at least 02 tutorials covering the given syllabus
The focus
In the field of Communication and Graphic Design Printing occupies important place. This subject is directly related to the reproduction of the creation of visual material involving a union of text and image with primary focus creative and effective design for mass communication Introduction to the subject printing - History of Printing - Major printing methods Study of various printing processes - Study of 'TYPE', type setting» Type Calculation - Line and Half-tone jobs, their reproduction, processing on Camera and scanners - Half-tone, Screen and their relation with job, paper, ink and printing process - Various kinds of images for reproduction by printing processes Study of paper, its kinds and sizes - printing inks - job suitability for various printing processes Note: Students are expected to answer tutorials for Elective and Subsidiary subjects, in English only
What is taught
- duly performed, completed and graded
Term work
Student must gain at least 40% of the total marks allotted for the Term Work of the academic year, in order to make him/her eligible to appear for the examination.
MU's First Year teaching chart numbers this subject 15 and its own body heading numbers it 16, with no subject 15 printed anywhere in the year. This page follows the teaching chart.
The University published this syllabus as scanned pages, with no machine-readable text. The wording below is transcribed from those pages and checked against a second, independent reading of the same scan. The PDF above is the University's own page, unaltered, and is the authority wherever the two differ.
The complete syllabus
This subject is cut from the University of Mumbai's own B.F.A. (Applied Art) syllabus document. The whole document is here:
The document ends with a Bibliography for the whole degree rather than a reading list per subject. Its last page — the list of books, after the periodicals and annuals — is missing from every copy that can be reached while the University's own site is down, so it is not reproduced here.