B.F.A. (Applied Art) Introduction to Elective Subjects 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 Elective Subjects
What the University sets
- Studio Practicals per Academic Year: 90 Hours
- Paper: Not for examination
- Assignments per Academic Year: 02 (in each Elective Subject)
- Term Work: Term Work shall consist of at least 02 x 5 Elective Subjects = 10
The focus
A training programme for various graphic design areas, which would culminate into an elective subject for a student, appearing for Applied Art Degree is part of this course. On the basis of an overview of these Elective subjects taken in the earlier academic year a composite practical oriented module for all the students should be planned during the early part of second term. Thus every student will be reasonably exposed to all the graphic design areas and an elective subject which he/she would like to study further
What is taught
- The following areas of individual electives should be focused while conducting the assignment
- g, LETTERING AND TYPOGRAPHY
- As this subject is a part of main course of practical studies, hence no specific assignments need to be conducted
- b. ILLUSTRATION Studies conducted in subject 'Drawing', should be used as basic reference, which will be able to establish a link between the two subjects. An assignment like a story illustration or a cover design should be able to offer a scope to explore the communicative values of an image and its gradual transformation into the illustration
- c. PHOTOGRAPHY Handling of Camera and its Accessories - Composing for a picture - Lights and lighting - Focusing and shooting - Developers and other chemicals - Developing the Darkroom - Preparing a print - Negative, Positive material - Photography and its relation to Reproduction processes
- d. COMPUTER GRAPHICS A detailed overview of word processing, drawing, designing, rendering, animation Introduction to Advanced Software and Hardware and their applications in various fields - Career opportunities - Profession and Management Desktop Publishing: Introduction to page layout software
- e. EXHIBITION-DISPLAY DESIGN AND STAGE CRAFT A counter display or a trophy should be planned and executed as a 3D model. At the same time working drawings of a simple stall with understanding of perspective should be encouraged
The elective subjects you choose from
- Lettering and Typography
- Illustration
- Photography
- Computer Graphics
- Exhibition-Display Design and Stage Craft
Term work
assignments covering the given syllabus, duly performed, completed and graded. 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.