B.F.A. (Applied Art) History of Visual Communication 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 History of Visual Communication
What the University sets
- Lectures per Academic Year: 40 Hours. Paper: 80 Marks. Duration: 3 Hours
- Tutorials per Academic Year: 04 Term Work: 20 Marks
What is taught
- General meaning of communication - Systematic methods, media through which man has been communicating since the dawn of civilisation - Common Gestures, Non verbal areas of human feelings and powerful forms of Expression - Exchange ideas, transaction, process of conveying thoughts, suggestions, information, asking questions, making enquiries, giving ordets, receiving response, Importance feedback How 5 sense work in developing knowledge. Each sense its receptive sensitivity, Role mind about its feelings and brain's function to analyse and reasoning of thought action, results, implementation. Trial and error methods, impact of surrounding Happening in Nature - Associating feelings - Sound signals - Visual images - Clarity Stone books - Sumeria - Mesopotamia - Egypt - Greek and Romans - Christian Symbols - Buddhist Symbols - Vedic symbols - Religious Symbols - Their identity Study of Form - Evolution of point, line, space, division for visual - Information studies - Alphabets and numerals - Cuneiform and Hieroglyphs - Meaning and purpose of symbol Design - Extension of Form Pictures, sketch, drawing - painting - Development of Painting - From ancient till present
- Cave painting - Pottery painting - Pyramids - Greek Wall paintings - Roman and early Christian paintings - Highest development Renaissance onwards to 17" and 18" Century - Realism - Expressionism - Impressionism - to Cubism - Surrealism Modern times - Science - Psychology - Philosophy - Fantasy - Literature - Poetry Painting to No Art movement - Present Academic art
- Architecture - surrounding 3D envir , inner and outer design - Home shelter houses, colonies, temples, churches, forts, palaces to modern functional buildings and space design for school, colleges, banks, markets, shops, temporary structures like exhibitions and supermarkets. Display designs and entertainment housés
- Note: Specimens of printed photographs from Art's History - and study of Actual visits wherever possible. To make the understanding more effective
- Note: Students are permitted, at their option, to answer Theory paper in English, Marathi or Hindi
Term work
Term Work shall consist of at least 04 tutorials 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.