Stage 2 Visual Arts – Design

LEVEL: Stage 2

SACE Credits: 20 credits

LENGTH: Full Year

Please note: at Stage 2 students may choose Stage 2 Visual Arts – Art or Stage 2 Visual Arts – Design but not both.

Recommended background:

Successful completion of Stage 1 Visual Arts – Art or Stage 1 Visual Arts – Design

Content:

The course consists of three assessment types – Folio, Practical and Visual Study. Students are required to show an understanding of Design in different social, cultural and/or historical contexts. They have opportunities to explore Graphic, Product, Environmental Design and Architecture. Practical skills in a wide range of media and written analysis are required throughout the course.

Assessment:

Students’ performance will be determined according to the subject’s Performance Standards, as outlined by the SACE Board. Grades A+ to E- will be used for reporting purposes.

Assessment Type 1 –Folio/Folios: two Folios of 20 x A3 pages, or one Folio of 40 x A3 pages 40%

  •   A process of well-planned concepts, developments and resolution of imaginative and personally relevant visual ideas, answering the student’s own ‘design brief’
  •   Students are required to explore a variety of media including manual and digital applications.

Assessment Type 2 –Practical/Practicals (one final or a suite of works depending on the Folio/s )   30%

  •   Students will present one or two practical pieces in the resolution of one or two folios. These can be 2 or 3Dimensional pieces.

Students prepare a written design practitioner’s statement for each practical up to 500 words or one Practitioner’s Statement up to 1000 words.

 Assessment Type 3 – Visual Study 30%

  •   Students are required to study an area of Design of their choice.
  •   Productive and thorough use of research skills is required.
  •   The application of practical and technical skills and sensitive use of media, materials and technologies should be evident.
  •   Students critically analyse the work of other designers and create appropriations of these pieces, using a variety of processes and techiques.
  •   Visual Study is externally marked.

Students receive grades each semester, as part of the school’s reporting policy with a grading of A+ to E-.

Assessment Type 1 and 2 are school-based assessments, moderated by SACE. Assessment Type 3 is externally marked by SACE.

Special Requirements: Nil

Subject Fee: Printing fee of $50 to printer line.

An optional study tour will be offered to Sydney or Melbourne in term 1 or term 2.