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The Year 13 curriculum offers speclized courses in printmaking, painting, and photography for the advanced students. Each student chooses one of the three areas to pursue.

Printmaking

Pri 71: Drawing and Monoprinting

Entry Requirements: Art 61 and Art 62 or 63

Cost: $5.00 Students must provide: Bulk Art Pack

Purpose: To introduce the relationship between drawing and printmaking with an emphasis on observational drawing, experimentation with drawing media and monoprinting techniques.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Demonstrate drawing skills and the creative use of drawing media.
• Explore a thematic approach to subject matter through dmwing.
• Demonstrate an understanding of monoprinting techniques and the fonnal aspects of picture making.
• Demonstrate knowledge of recent and established AA practice.

Content: Research and development. Art camp. Field trip. Use of various drawing media. Use of tone, texture, composition, colour form. Artist study.

Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB

Pri 72: Relief and Intaglio Printmaking

Entry Requirements: Pri 72

Cost: $5.00

Purpose: To learn and use the techniques of relief (block printing) and intaglio printmaking (etching) based on current and established Art practice.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Understand a range of relief and intagho printmaking.
• Reflect recent and established practices in their work.
• Use drawing notes as the central means of generating and clarifying their ideas in printmaking.

Content: Development of technical processes of woodcutting and etching. Examples of other printmakers' work. Viewing contemporary exhibitions. Field trip.

Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB

Pri 73: PrintmakingAn Individual Programme

Entry Requirements: Pri 17I and 172

Cost: $5.00

Purpose: To develop a systematic approach to print-making. Students completing this module will be able to develop and extend their understanding of printmaking practice through a thematic study.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Employ a thematic approach using a selected subject and artistic model.
• Use drawing notes as the central means of generating, clarifying and regenerating their ideas.
• Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of recent and established An practice through individual performance
• Demonstrate controlled use of practical skills and time.

Content: Individual study of specific printmaking techniques and media Generation and regeneration of ideas.

Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB

Pri 74: Printmaking: Developing a Presentation

Entry Requirements: Pri 71, 72 and 73

Cost: $5.00

Purpose: For students to present a body of work for examination or exhibition

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Produce a body of work that resolves the problems of blending technique, style and idea.
• Select and plan their work so that it explains the ideas, processes and procedures used in its generation.
• Demonstrate the ability to meet deadlines in the process of completing a folio or exhibition.

Content: Students individual plan. Indepth study of personal printmaking techniques Generation and regeneration of ideas. Mounting and presenting final works.

Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB

Painting

Ptg 71: Painting

Entry Requirements: Art 61, 62, 63, and 64

Cost: $5.00

Students must provide: Bulk Art Pack

Purpose: To introduce recent and established painting practice as well as the formal aspects of picture making (composition). Students are encouraged to experiment with drawing media and use their environment as their source of subject matter.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Demonstratc drawing skills and the creative use of drawing media.
• Explore a thematic approach to subject matter through drawing.
• Demonstrate knowledge of recent and established art practice.

Content: Artist study. Research and resource drvelopment. Varous drawing media. Art camp/field trip. Study of composition, tone, texture, colour and form.

Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB

PTG 72: Painting Technique and Established Practice

Entry Requirements: Ptg 71

Cost: $5.00

Purpose: To generate work developed trorn the study of recent and established practice and from the creative use of drawing and painting media in ohservaition of a chosen theme.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Understand a range of painting techniques.
• Reflect recent and established practice in their work.
• Use drawing notes as the central means of generating and clarifying their ideas.

Content: Artist study. Stretching of paper and canvas. Priming of boards. Using oils and acrlics. Mixed media approach using paint and drawing media, pastels, chalks, pen. Field trip.

Award: CSC Certilicate or towards UB

PTG 73: Drawing Out: Personal Development

Entry Requirements: Ptg 71 and 72

Cost: $5.00

Purpose: Promotes the ability to clarify and regenerate ideas in painting through indeplh personal study and performance.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module studenys should be able to:

• Employ a thematic approach using a sele eled subject and artistic model. Else drawing notes as the central means of generating, clarifying and regenerating their ideas.
• Demonstratc knowledge and understanding of recent and established practice through individual perlonnance.
• Demonstrate controlled use of practical skills and time.

Content: Individual study of specific painting techniques and media. Generation and regeneration of ideas.

Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB

Ptg 74: Developing a Presentation

Entry Requirements: Ptg 71, 72 and 73

Cost: $5.00

Purpose: This module is for students to present a body of work for examination or exhibition.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Produce a body of work that resolves the problems of blending techniques, style and ideas.
• Select and plan their work SO that it explains the ideas, pnxesscs and procedures used in its generation.
• Demonstrate the ability to meet deadlines in the process of completing a folio or exhibition.

Content: Student individual plan. lndepth study of personal painting techniques. Generation and regeneration of ideas. Mounting and presenting final works.

Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB

Photography

Pho 71: Taking Photographs and Dark Room Procedures

Entry Requirements: ART61 and ART62 or ART63 and ART64. Students must have access to a 35mm SLR camera or at discretion of teacher

Cost: $20.00

Purpose: This module will introduce students to the ideas and skills of photographic composition, exposure and darkroom practice.

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module students should be able to:

• Cultivate and practise basic exposure skills and practices.
• Analyse photographic compositions and have a working knowledge of formal aspects of picture making.
• Develop black and white film and print enlargement from their own negatives.

Content: Technical information on: darkroom developing, camera parts and how to use them. Shooting subjects. Field trip.

Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB

Pho 72: Making Prints

Entry Requirements: Pho 71

Cost: $20.00

Purpose: This module invu investigates and makes use current phtographic practices and working procedures

Learning Outcomes: By the end of this module studenis should he able to:

• Identify and discuss the ideas and techniques of a variety of contemporary art phtographers
• Demonstrate in their work a range of creative amid experimental approaches to photographic picture making
• Work in an organized and methodical manner to complete projects and meet deadlines.

Content: Artist photographer study. Shooting minimum of 4 films. Developing films and proof sheets, 4 enlargements. Field trip.

Award: CSC Certificatc or towards UB

Pho 73: Thematic Development

Entry Requirements: Pho 71 and 72

Cost: $20.00

Purpose: To select and use subject matter to be developed thematically as a series of weorking phptos and final prints

Learning Outcomes: By the end ot this module students should be able to:

• Take responsibility for their own subject matter and thematic planning.
• Use proof sheds and working prints as a means of drawing in idas and organising content towards more controlled and resolved works.
• Work independently in ways that are self-critical, focused and progressive.

  Content: Reserch/Resource development. Individual study of photographic technical processes and formal elements. Generation and regeneration of ideas.

  Award: CSC Certilicate or towards UDB
  
  
  

  Pho 74: Thematic Presentation

  Enntry Requirements Pho 71, 72, and 73

  Purpose: For students to develop their photography for presentatiin. Students completing this module will compile either a University Bursary folio or a hody of work for exhibition.

  Learning Outcome: By the end of this module students should be able to:

  • Plan a body of work that demonstrates the development of ideas in a consistent theme.
  • Demonstrate critical skills in selection, editing and organisation of their folio.
  • Display a consistency of technical skills and photographic values appropnatc to their ideas and selected theme.

  Content: Final development of enlargements. Organisation and editing of work. Technical fine tuning.

  Award: CSC Certificate or towards UB
  
  
  

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