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CAVA1003: Visual Art Elective 1
2024 unit information
This elective unit introduces 2D (Image) and 3D (Sculpture/Object) studios at SCA. Your engagement with creative learning experiences via project-based content will develop your conceptual understanding and problem-solving skills within a Visual Arts studio context. Across 3 assessment tasks you will explore a range of media and processes and develop an experimental, participatory and collaborative approach. Your engagement with facilities and equipment will develop your technical skills and awareness of WHS essential to SCA.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Sydney College of the Arts |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Prerequisites:
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None |
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Corequisites:
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None |
| Prohibitions:
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CAVA1001 or CAVA1002 or CASF1001 or CASF1002 |
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None |
At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Demonstrate emerging competencies in the skills, systems and approaches in contemporary art practice
- LO2. Apply skills in the generation of art objects and engagements relevant to visual art.
- LO3. Show evidence of development in skills and technologies, and the capacity to reflect on the art-making process as it relates to the demands of the unit
- LO4. Demonstrate the strategies requisite to a critical awareness within art-making: the appropriate application of concepts and the willingness to explore unfamiliar approaches
- LO5. Demonstrate a commitment to art practice, deploying qualities of regularity, consistency and openness with the objective of shaping a dedicated art practice
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