Course Title: Produce paintings
Part A: Course Overview
Program: C5238
Course Title: Produce paintings
Portfolio: DSC
Nominal Hours: 50.0
Regardless of the mode of delivery, represent a guide to the relative teaching time and student effort required to successfully achieve a particular competency/module. This may include not only scheduled classes or workplace visits but also the amount of effort required to undertake, evaluate and complete all assessment requirements, including any non-classroom activities.Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
VART5989C |
City Campus |
TAFE |
340T Art |
Face-to-Face |
Term2 2010 |
Course Contact: Ninna Cikoja
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4472
Course Contact Email: TAFEArt@rmit.edu.au
Course Description
In this course you will produce paintings through the application of a range of techniques and materials. As such, the results are expected to be varied and broad in nature. Through a number of projects, you will investigate the essential nature of painting and consider it within a range of contexts - historical, contemporary, social and political. Painting is presented as not merely a material substance for personal expression, but also as a vehicle that implies how one thinks. You are introduced to a range of methods and mediums associated with painting. Emphasis is placed on the acquisition of fundamental skills and to developing understanding of personal research and observation.
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
It is highly recommended that this unit be assessed in conjunction with the following units:
- CUVCOR03B Develop, refine and communicate concept for own work
- CUVCOR09B Select and apply drawing techniques and media to represent the concept.
- CUVCRS08B Document the work progress
- CUVCRS14B Prepare, store and maintain finished work.
National Competency Codes and Titles
National Element Code & Title: |
CUVVSP35B Produce paintings |
Elements: |
1 Prepare and maintain resources for painting |
2 Explore painting techniques to plan work |
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3 Realise Paintings |
Learning Outcomes
In this course, you learn through:
1. In-class activities:
- lectures
- teacher directed group activities/projects
- class exercises to review discussions/lectures
- peer teaching and class presentations
- group discussion
- class exercises to review discussions/lectures
- studio work.
2. Out-of-class activities include:
- practical exercises
- reading articles and excerpts
- preparing for discussion
- project work
- independent research.
You are expected to manage your learning and undertake an appropriate amount of out-of-class independent study and research and industry guests speak about professional practice.
Overview of Assessment
Assessment may incorporate a range of methods to assess performance and the application of essential underpinning knowledge, and might include:
- direct observation of paintings in progress
- questioning and discussion of the your intentions and work
- verbal and written reports
- review of portfolios of evidence.