Visual Arts
Visual Arts
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Course Content
Course Content
Preliminary
Visual Arts involves students in artmaking, art criticism and art history. Students critically and historically investigate artworks, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times.
The Year 11 course is broadly focused, while the HSC course provides for deeper and more complex investigations. 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 informed 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.
While the course builds on Visual Arts courses in Stages 4 and 5, it also caters for students with less experience in Visual Arts.
HSC
Visual Arts involves students in artmaking, art criticism and art history. Students develop their own artworks, culminating in a 'body of work' in the HSC course. Students critically and historically investigate artworks, critics, historians and artists from Australia as well as those from other cultures, traditions and times. HSC Course learning opportunities focus on:
how students may develop their practice in artmaking, art criticism, and art history
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 and apply these to their own investigations how students may further develop meaning and focus in their work.
Course Requirements
Course Requirements
Preliminary
Artworks in at least two expressive forms and use of a process diary
a broad investigation of ideas in art making, art criticism and art history.
HSC
development of a body of work and use of a process diary
a minimum of five Case Studies (4–10 hrs each)
deeper and more complex investigations in art making, art criticism and art history.
HSC Examination Format
HSC Examination Format
Sample HSC School-Based assessment
Careers and related industries
Careers and related industries
myfuture_bullseyes_booklet_a2 1.pdfThe knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.
Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:
Arts and Recreation Services
Education and Training
Information Media and Telecommunications
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