Graduate Seminar aims to enable students to undertake rich and robust creative exploration that is informed by contextual and critical inquiry. The course brings together the full cohort of CCS graduate students to discuss and debate key contextual issues in art and design,and advance critical thinking skills.Students will attend lectures and seminars and undertake visits to key exhibitions, galleries and public talks. Graduate Seminar serves to advance both the critical inquiry and critical writing skills of students, and enable the cross-referencing of theory to practice. Social, political, economic and environmental themes will be used to inform weekly classes. This course involves extensive reading,research, group presentations, short written assignments and one longer written assignment.