B.F.A. (Applied Art) Dissertation or Project Report 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 Dissertation or Project Report
What the University sets
- Lectures per Academic Year: 40 Hours
- Paper: 60 Marks. (To be submitted at the time of examination in the given format.)
- Tutorials per Academic Year: 01
What is taught
- 2A DISSERTATION
- The subject for Dissertation should be related to any topic from the area Communication Design which has been selected by a student. The dissertation should be approximately of 3000 words in English/Hindi/Marathi, legibly hand written or typed on A4 size (Vertical) white papers and suitably bound. The Dissertation will be assessed by the panel of examiners appointed by the university. Though references and illustrations from elsewhere may be used, the student must take his/her original contribution in terms of thought and hypothesis
- The dissertation would be illustrated fully with good and bad references from actual, existing printed and published material, wherever necessary. Bad examples and its criticism would illustrate the negative aspect of hypothesis
- The subject matter can be divided as follows
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Hypothesis
- 3. Examples to illustrate the hypothesis
- 4. References to support the hypothesis
- 5. Discussion
- 6. Conclusion Every candidate will have to submit the Synopsis of his proposed Dissertation, in the first week of January, to the Class-in-Charge or Head of the Department/Institute. The synopsis should be in 400 words and elaborate enough to give clear outline of the subject development along with suitable visual examples. The Class-in-Charge or Head of the Department/Institute should approve and sign the content of the synopsis, with comments, if any; and return the same to the concerned student for further development. Every candidate expected to submit the signed synopsis to panel of the examiners at the time Viva-Voce Every candidate will have to submit the Dissertation to the examination authorities, through the head of the institution to which he/she belongs. The Dissertation must reach the examination authorities at least 15 days before the commencement date of the examination 2A ii: PROJECT REPORT The subject for Project Report should be related to the Subject/Topic/Client which has been selected and the Elective selected by the student. The Project Report would be approximately of 3000 words in English/Hind/Marathi, legibly hand written or typed on A4 size (Vertical) white papers and suitably bound. The Project Report will be assessed by the panel 'of examiners appointed by the uhiyersity. Though references, case histories and illustrations from existing print advertising, for the competitive analysis my be used, the student must take his/her original contribution in terms of thought and approach towards the visual solution The Project Report would be illustrated fully with good and bad referentes and case histories from actual, existing printed and published material, wherever necessary The subject matter can be divided as follows
- 1. Introduction/Background
- 2. Selection criteria for the subject 3, Present Scenario of the Consumer 4, Existing Problem
- 5. Study of Competitive products/services, comparative analysis
- 6. Redefining the Problem
- 7. Proposed Visual Solution
- 8. Future Plan Every candidate will have to submit the Synopsis of his proposed Project Report in the first week of January, to the Class-in-Charge or Head of the Department/Institute. The synopsis should be in 400 words and elaborate enough to give clear outline of the subject development along with suitable visual examples. The Class-in-Charge or Head of the Department/Institute should approve and sign the content of the synopsis, with comments, if any; and return the same to the concerned candidate for further development. Every candidate expected to submit the signed synopsis to panel of the examiners at the time Viva-Voce
- Every candidate will have to submit the Project Report to the examination quthorities, through the head of the institution to which he/she belongs. The Project Report must reach the examination authorities at least 15 days before the commencement date of the examination
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.