B.F.A. (Applied Art) Introduction to Subsidiary Subject Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
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
- Studio Practicals per Academic Year: 90 Hours
- Paper: Not for examination
- Assignments per Academic Year: 02
- Term Work: Term Work shall consist of at least 02 assignments covering the given
The focus
Typesetting for layout design - hot metal and DTP working - Camera work for line and half-tone reproduction - Surface preparation and image making for printing
What is taught
- Practical working of printing processes - Screen printing practicals for design reproduction - Art work preparation for print production
- A week's concentrated module in each term, devoted to the subject should cover the topics given above. Additionally an industry visit can be planned to explain certain aspects of the subject
Term work
syllabus, duly performed, completed and gradéd. 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.
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.