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Visual Arts Overview Two units for each of the Preliminary and HSC Year Board Developed Course. Visual Arts is offered as a course for students with a wide range of needs, abilities and interests. The course caters for the full range of students through learning opportunities based on a flexible content structure consisting of practice (artmaking, art criticism and art history), the conceptual framework (artist, artwork, world, audience) and the frames (subjective, cultural, structural and post modern). In the Visual Arts syllabus, the frames relate to the method of critical analysis used. Students learn about practice in artmaking and learn how to make art in a variety of forms, culminating in the development of a ‘body of work’ in the HSC course. Students critically and historically investigate the practice of artists, critics and historians. They learn about artworks and significant ideas in the Visual Arts from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times. The Preliminary course provides students with a broadly based experience, enabling students to develop an understanding in and about the Visual Arts, while the HSC course provides opportunities for students to build on their understandings through deeper and increasingly more independent investigations. While the course builds on Visual Arts, Photography and Digital Media and Ceramics courses in Stages 4 and 5, it also caters for students with more limited experience in Visual Arts. Content Preliminary Course learning opportunities focus on: • The nature of practice in artmaking, art criticism and art history through different investigations • The role and function of artists, artworks, the world and audiences in the artworld • The different ways the visual arts may be interpreted and how students might develop their own points of view • How students may develop meaning and focus and interest in their work • Building understandings over time through various investigations and working in different forms. HSC Course learning opportunities focus on: • How students may develop their own practice of artmaking, art criticism, and art history, applied to areas of interest • How students may develop their own informed points of view in increasingly independent ways and use different interpretive frameworks in their investigations • How students may learn about the relationships between artists, artworks, the world and audiences within the artworld • How students may further develop meaning and focus in their work. The Higher School Certificate: Preliminary Courses 2012 Page 41 HSC Courses 2013
Special Requirements Exclusions between Content Endorsed Courses and the Board Developed Visual Arts Course: Works developed for assessment in any of the Content Endorsed Courses in Ceramics; Photography, Video and Digital Imaging; and Visual Design are not to be used either in full or in part for assessment in the Visual Arts. Students who study this course will need to have good essay writing skills. Cost - A fee of $130.00 was charged in 2011. The 2012 fees are yet to be finalised. Excursions: There excursions to the AGNSW and the MCA. Further charges will apply. Equipment: Students will need an A3 Visual Arts diary, 2B drawing pencil, sharpener, eraser, ruler and a portable storage device to store digital photos. Course: 50% Practical, 50% Theory Students will need to be prepared to write essays and undertake research activities in Visual Arts. Assessment / Homework Information Students will complete a range of assessment tasks in this course including practical assessments, research activities, oral presentations and examination. The Higher School Certificate: Preliminary Courses 2012 Page 42 HSC Courses 2013
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