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CAVA1001: Visual Art Foundation 1
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 WH&S essential to SCA and your future creative endeavours in CAVA1002.
| Code | CAVA1001 |
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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 |
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
Unit outlines
Unit outlines will be available 2 weeks before the first day of teaching for the relevant session.
- Semester 1, 2023 [Online] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2023 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 2, 2023 [Online] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 2, 2023 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2020 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 2, 2020 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2021 [Normal day] - Remote
- Semester 2, 2021 [Normal day] - Remote
- Semester 2, 2021 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2022 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
- Semester 1, 2022 [Normal day] - Remote
- Semester 2, 2022 [Normal day] - Remote
- Semester 2, 2022 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney
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