VA2601 - Painting 2A

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	Discipline of Visual Arts

Available to Bachelor of Visual Arts students.

Students will be taught more advanced skills in the visual arts area of painting. Emphasis will be on the exploration of traditional and contemporary approaches to visual art expression. Methodology appropriate to visual arts practice will be implemented. Students will be taught to apply professional standards of presentation.

Learning Outcomes

• to demonstrate an understanding of safe work practices;
• to gain an appreciation of the inherent qualities of processes and techniques in the studio major area of painting;
• to identify, employ and demonstrate proficiency in key competencies necessary to visual arts practice;
• to develop problem-solving skills to assist in creative decision-making and critical inquiry in visual art.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments;
• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to use a variety of media and methods to retrieve, analyse, evaluate, organise and present information.

Prerequisites:	VA1031 or (VA1032 and VA1111)
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	VA2031 and VA2032 and VA2033 and VA2034 and VA2611

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Coord/Lect:	Dr Gordon Brown.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours practicals
Assessment:	two prescribed folios of paintings (40% each) (80%); visual diary (20%).
Special Assessment Requirements:	In order to establish the authenticity of work submitted for assessment, attendance at practical classes is compulsory. Rolls are kept and work submitted by students with an attendance of less than 80% will not be eligible for assessment unless prior approval has been obtained in writing from the lecturer.

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.