This course is a great chance for students in NCEA 6, 7, and 8 to boost their art folios and meet the internal standards. This class could be a supplementary class to your NCEA level 6,7,8 class or you might want to try something new due to scheduling conflicts with orange or blue block art classes.
In this class, you'll explore your art-making processes more deeply. This includes extra help and tutorials specifically for mastering the Adobe suite, covering design, photography, and other art techniques. Plus, you might even get to use the darkroom for a hands-on experience with traditional photographic processes.
Joining this class not only helps with your NCEA, but may also broaden your skills beyond the usual coursework and increase your chances of getting a better mark.
This is the senior art class for NCEA level 1, 2 and/or 3 visual arts students. If you want to study painting, photography, printmaking, design, or sculpture to a senior level this is the class to choose.
Course content
- Contexts for learning include drawing, painting, photography, design, printmaking and sculpture. Students will engage in long-term projects in these areas as they develop their visual art skills.
- This combined course aims to provide the student with a thorough grounding in any of the following visual arts disciplines: Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture practices.
- The course is for study of level 1, 2 or level 3 NCEA and could be preparation for further study at Level 3 (Year 13) or tertiary level. Students are taught to understand visual art methods and processes to develop knowledge of the current processes, procedures, materials and techniques. This involves how to carry out research, generate ideas and systematically develop these ideas through to the finished visual arts outcomes.
- A workbook is kept throughout the year to record this process of development. Students are encouraged to use contemporary and traditional artist models to develop their own work.
- At the beginning of the year, students are guided as to their approaches to their chosen visual arts field, both in subject matter and media. For the remainder of the year, students choose their own theme to develop their ideas for their folio looking at a range of appropriate artist models in both traditional and contemporary practice.
Note: Students may take up to three of the NCEA Level 1, 2 or Level 3 Visual Art Courses offered: Design, Painting, Photography, Printmaking and Sculpture, however, those students wishing to take more than two of these subjects may only do so with the approval of the visual arts learning advisor.
Assessment statement
- NCEA opportunities in this course will be available for Visual Arts. The course content will provide opportunities for assessments in both learning areas while working in the same year-long context.
- Typically, students should aim to complete at least one internal assessment per term, as well as a one-panel art portfolio at the end of the year, which is assessed externally. Assessment work is completed both in-class and out-of-class time. The folio requires students to develop a significant body of work across the whole year, and so this will only be available to students who are in the course for the whole year.
- Up to 22 credits will be on offer for a student who completes at least one internal in each of terms 1-3, and who also completes the art folio.