B.F.A. (Applied Art) Typography and Calligraphy 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 Typography and Calligraphy
What the University sets
- Studio Practicals per Academic Year: 80 Hours
- Paper: 90 Marks. Duration: 10 Hours. (Typography: 5 Hours. Calligraphy: 5 Hours.)
- Term Work: 20 Marks
- Assignments per Academic Year: 06
What is taught
- TYPOGRAPHY
- Type Study - Type Character and its importafice in expressing any specific feeling and emotion. |
- Typographic Compositions in 2D - 3D and their applications
- Typographic Expression in a form of setting up a line. (to create understanding about mechanical and optical spacing.)
- Use of Grid system in Typographic layouts for books and newspapers
- Typographic application in Communication media CALLIGRAPHY
- Study of Calligraphy in respect to tools, material, and surface
- Study of Classic Roman Calligraphic styles: Roundhand, Gothic Miniscule Magiscule etc. - (A student is expected to learn at least one style thoroughly.)
- Study of Devanagari Calligraphic style in totality
- Fusion of Roman and Devanagari Calligraphic forms
- Application of Calligraphy for simple works like certificates/ citations/scrolls etc
Term work
Term Work shall consist of at least 06 assignments covering the given syllabus, duly performed, completed and graded, carrying a weightage of 20 marks. 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.