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Teacher in Charge: Mr Alistair Hutcheson
ahutcheson@wdsg.school.nz
Course description:
Design & Visual Communication explores a student’s ability and skills through their communication of design ideas that visually convey the candidate’s design thinking in response to a design brief. Students will undertake projects that allow for critical evaluation that is informed by: ongoing experimentation and functional modelling, trialing in the physical and social environments, and an understanding of the issue as it relates to design in the wider context.
Course of study:
Resolve a product through design practice.
Apply visual communication techniques to promote your own design ideas to an audience.
Initiate design ideas through exploration.
Resolve a spatial design through graphic practice.
Assessment:
Assessment will be in the form of a portfolio of evidence selected from a range of Design & Visual Communication Achievement Standards. A portfolio is an organised collection of evidence that communicates the candidate’s knowledge and understanding relevant to Design & Visual Communication.
Internal – up to 18 credits at NCEA Level 3.
External – up to 4 credits at NCEA Level 3.
Costs:
Consumable costs: $20 per term.
Entry criteria:
Completion of Level 2 Design & Visual Communication or a comparable Level 2 Art equivalent, or at the discretion of the HOD, in consultation with your Dean.
Future pathways:
Level 3 Design & Visual Communication Achievement Standards are accredited under Technology as a recognised University Entrance subject. Learning for senior students opens up pathways that can lead to technology-related careers. Students may access workplace learning opportunities available in a range of industries or move on to further specialised tertiary study.
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