Foundation Certificate in Art and Design Year 2
Unit 3 Understanding Others' Work
Course Level 1
Duration 1 Year (2 Semesters)
The unit aims to develop the learner’s basic skills of research and creating a visual language, together with the understanding of artistic terms. The learner will also be stimulated to learn how to produce an appropriate format to present all his/her findings in which one should include visual records and notes on the work studied.
Foundation Certificate in Art and Design
Unit 3 Understanding Other's Work
Course Level 2
Duration 1 Semester
The unit aims to develop the learner’s study skills of research and visual language, together with the understanding of ‘formal elements.’ The learner will also be stimulated to learn how to produce an appropriate format to present all his/her findings in which one should include visual records and notes on the work studied.
Diploma in the Creative Arts
Unit 5: Art and Design in Context (1) – From Early Art Forms to the Renaissance
Art and Design in Context (2) - From Renaissance to Early 20th Century
Course Levels - 3
Duration 1 Year (2 Semesters)
This unit will help the student develop an understanding of past and present developments in art, craft and design (up till the Renaiisance). Learners will become familiar with the fundamentals of art, craft and design practice through a broad spectrum of examples touching upon the seminal periods, styles and movements in Western and non-Western art and design production. Particular emphasis is placed on the context in which the work under study would have been produced. Research will be assessed through evidence produced in the students’ portfolios.
Diploma in Art and Design
Unit 1 Contextual References in Art and Design
Course Level - 3
Duration 1 Semester
Diploma in Foundation Studies
Unit 4 Information and InterpretationMerging the boundaries of art, design and film
Course Level - 4
Duration 1 semester
Creative artists designers and filmmakers use their understanding of the contemporary visual world and their awareness of historical developments to inspire and inform their own creative work.
This unit will enable the student to develop:
- critical understanding of contemporary, historical and related contexts
- awareness and knowledge to develop own creative intentions in preferred pathways.
This unit will be assessed through the student’s portfolio against the unit’s outcomes.
Work will be graded at key stages and at the end of the programme.
Higher National Diploma in Fine Art
Unit 4 - Historical and Contextual Referencing The Evolution of Style in Fine Art
Unit level 5
Duration 1 Semester
This unit introduces learners to the cultural history which informs current thought and debate in fine art. Emphasis is on research and study skills and learners’ acquiring of source materials and knowledge. Presentation skills can be applied in practical contexts.
Contextual studies enables the student to place an artwork in its proper era or period in history. This unit follows both the chronological as well as social and cultural evolution of style in art and places it into context. Equally as important as the context are the formal qualities which make up an artwork, since this gives the viewer the work’s aesthetic value. In this unit the student will be equipped with the basic ability to address a work of art, from an artist’s point of view and be able to give a critical review of it, as well as juxtapose it against contemporaneous as well as other parallel works of art.
Higher National Diploma in 3D - Design
Unit 2 Historical and Contextual Referencing - Understanding the Pioneers of Modern Design.
Level 5
Duration 1 Semester
Artists and designers throughout history have made use of historical as well as contemporay sources which they have merged with their prevailing social and cultural attitudes and used them as inspiration for their works. Ideas are drawn from the past and moulded into a new contemporaneous approach so as to achieve a new, creative, effective and functional solution. Students can learn from this unit how artists/designers selected, adopted and adapted and like them they will b able to extract from the old in order to create the new.
Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design
Unit 2 Historical and Contextual Referencing - Understanding the Pioneers of Modern Design.
Level 5
Duration 1 Semester
Artists and designers throughout history have made use of historical as well as contemporay sources which they have merged with their prevailing social and cultural attitudes and used them as inspiration for their works. Ideas are drawn from the past and moulded into a new contemporaneous approach so as to achieve a new, creative, effective and functional solution. Students can learn from this unit how artists/designers selected, adopted and adapted and like them they will b able to extract from the old in order to create the new.
Unit 4 - Historical and Contextual Referencing The Evolution of Style in Fine Art
Unit level 5
Duration 1 Semester
This unit introduces learners to the cultural history which informs current thought and debate in fine art. Emphasis is on research and study skills and learners’ acquiring of source materials and knowledge. Presentation skills can be applied in practical contexts.
Contextual studies enables the student to place an artwork in its proper era or period in history. This unit follows both the chronological as well as social and cultural evolution of style in art and places it into context. Equally as important as the context are the formal qualities which make up an artwork, since this gives the viewer the work’s aesthetic value. In this unit the student will be equipped with the basic ability to address a work of art, from an artist’s point of view and be able to give a critical review of it, as well as juxtapose it against contemporaneous as well as other parallel works of art.
Higher National Diploma in 3D - Design
Unit 2 Historical and Contextual Referencing - Understanding the Pioneers of Modern Design.
Level 5
Duration 1 Semester
Artists and designers throughout history have made use of historical as well as contemporay sources which they have merged with their prevailing social and cultural attitudes and used them as inspiration for their works. Ideas are drawn from the past and moulded into a new contemporaneous approach so as to achieve a new, creative, effective and functional solution. Students can learn from this unit how artists/designers selected, adopted and adapted and like them they will b able to extract from the old in order to create the new.
Higher National Diploma in Graphic Design
Unit 2 Historical and Contextual Referencing - Understanding the Pioneers of Modern Design.
Level 5
Duration 1 Semester
Artists and designers throughout history have made use of historical as well as contemporay sources which they have merged with their prevailing social and cultural attitudes and used them as inspiration for their works. Ideas are drawn from the past and moulded into a new contemporaneous approach so as to achieve a new, creative, effective and functional solution. Students can learn from this unit how artists/designers selected, adopted and adapted and like them they will b able to extract from the old in order to create the new.
