Visual Arts

2 unit

Year 11 and 12

Course Outline

Visual Arts Stage 6 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.

Content

The course consists of the practice (artmaking, art criticism and art history), the conceptual framework (artist, artwork, world, audience) and the frames (subjective, cultural, structural and postmodern). These aspects of content can be engaged more broadly and deeply as students develop increasing autonomy in their practical and theoretical understanding, knowledge and skills. The Year 11 Course is broad, while the HSC Course provides for deeper, increasingly more independent investigations.

While the course builds on Visual Arts Courses in Stages 4 and 5, it also caters for students with more limited experience in Visual Arts.

Recommendations

Who should do this course?

This course is suitable for students with interests in developing artmaking skills as well as developing an appreciation of artworks throughout time and place.

Special Requirements & Equipment

What I need for this course?

· artworks in at least 2 expressive forms and use of a Visual Arts Process Diary

· a broad investigation of ideas in art criticism and art history

· development of a body of work and use of a process diary

Students are responsible for some of the costs of specialised materials they may select for the development of their Body of Work in the HSC course.

Exclusions

What you cannot do with this course?

None

This course is often chosen with

Textiles and Design

Music

Drama.

Career options

How will this course help me in the future?

Visual Arts will be useful for students considering careers in areas such as design (landscape, interior, fashion etc), teaching (pre-school, primary, high school and tertiary), film and television industry, architecture, art galleries and museums and many more

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