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CAVA1001: Visual Art Foundation 1
2025 unit information
This Visual Arts Major/Minor core unit explores 2D (Image) and 3D (Sculpture/Object) studios at SCA. Your engagement with creative learning experiences via project-based content and group work will develop your practice-based understanding and problem-solving skills within a creative arts framework. Across 4 assessment tasks that are informed by theoretical discourse, you will explore a range of media and processes, develop an experimental, participatory and collaborative approach. Your engagement with materials and equipment will develop your technical skills and awareness of WHS essential to SCA and your future creative endeavours in CAVA1002.
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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CASF1001 or CASF1002 or CAVA1003 or CAVA1004 |
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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 to contemporary art practice
- LO2. apply skills in the generation of art objects, and engagements relative to visual art. 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
- LO3. demonstrate the strategies requisite to a critical awareness within art-making: the appropriate application of concepts and the willingness to explore unfamiliar approaches
- LO4. demonstrate a commitment to art practice, deploying qualities of regularity, consistency and openness with the objective of shapinga dedicated art practice
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