Advanced Higher
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Art and Design provides opportunities to develop aesthetic understanding, crfeativity and visual awareness, knowledge and appreciation. It encourages candidates to use a range of media and technology to understand, appreciater and respond to their world. The Course promotes creative thinking, encourages indepentent thought, initiative, innovation, problem solving and the development of personal opinions.
COURSE CONTENT
The course has one mandatory Unit and a choice of one of two optional Units as follows:
Mandatory Unit
Art and Design: Design Enquiry (80 hours)
and
Optional Units
either
Art and Design: Expressive Activity (40hours)
or
Art and Design: Design Study (40hours)
The course should recognise candidates' personal interests and experiences and include content which reflects the following themes:
the environment (human, manufactured, natural
communication and the mass media
cultural, social and historical factors and influences.
To promote breadth, depth and balance across the course as a whole, candidates' experiences should include:
two and /or three-dimensional media process(es)
technology, (mandatory requirement in at least one Unit) which may include the use of computers, cameras, sewing machines and so forth
contemporary issues.
The Advanced Higher Art and Design course promotes opportunities for candidates to continue developing visual communication by encouraging increased candidate autonomy. It allows scope for individual enquiry and comment in areas of personal interest.