NM2000 - Art, Artist, Environment

Credit points:	03
Year:	2012
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Creative Arts

Available to all students

Art exists in a range of environments; built, natural and virtual. This subject provides students with a thorough grounding in relation to the ways in which artists engage with their environments, including an investigation of the conceptual, theoretical, ideological or metaphysical underpinnings. An environmental field trip to a tropical north location provides students with an immersion and art creation experience that links theory with practice.

Learning Outcomes

• An understanding of the ways in which artists intersect with a range of environments;
• An understanding of the research process which underpin the creation of art work in a range of environments;
• The ability to create new art work that reflects the key features of natural, built or virtual environments.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

NM2101

Availabilities
Townsville, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2012
Coordinator:	Mr Mitch Goodwin
Lecturers:	Ms Anne Lord, Ms Kirsten Heritage.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 13 hours workshops/Seminars 13 hours fieldwork
Assessment:	quizzes or tests (30%); presentations (30%); essays (40%).
Cairns, Internal, Study Period 1
Census Date 22-Mar-2012
Coord/Lect:	Mr Russell Milledge.
Contact hours:	13 hours lectures 13 hours workshops/Seminars 13 hours fieldwork
Assessment:	quizzes or tests (30%); presentations (30%); essays (40%).

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.