VA2602 - Painting 2B

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 continue to explore painting as an area of specialisation within the visual arts. Emphasis will be on the consolidation of skills, technical development and expression of a personal vision. Students will gain experience in research and experimentation, the development of ideas and their synthesis and translation into creative outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

• to continue to develop skills in creative decision-making and critical inquiry;
• to demonstrate further understanding of safe work practices;
• to further identify, employ and demonstrate proficiency in key competencies necessary to visual arts practice;
• to gain a further appreciation of technological developments and explore current practices in contemporary 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:	VA2601
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	VA2031 and VA2032 and VA2033 and VA2034

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Coord/Lect:	Dr Gordon Brown.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 26 hours practicals
Assessment:	two practical projects (40% each) (80%); research journal/visual diary (20%) (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.