Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 2 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

The interface between the graphic design, print and art environments is dynamic and pervasive. An awareness of contemporary practices through conceptual and cross-media investigations will allow you to interpret, create and engage in these environments. The unit provides you with opportunities to develop graduate attributes in critical, creative and analytical thinking, and knowledge of local, national and global discourses within art/design practices.

Aims

The aims of this unit are to increase your creative ability through a conceptual and material approach to problem-solving that emphasizes graphic and print media. By giving you an understanding of the applications of art practice to graphic outcomes and graphic processes that extend and inform artistic practice, the unit aims to assist you in developing contemporary and innovative personal practices.

Objectives

On completion of this unit you should be able to:
1. apply open, speculative methods to art and design problems;
2. apply graphic skills and innovative uses of media in the production of images
3. understand the relationship between art and design elements within individual practice.

Content

This unit addresses content such as:
Artistic practice and graphic application concepts emphasizing cross media experimentation; substructures of design methods such as repetition, pattern, progression, variation; multiple outcomes using modular units; properties of materials and receiving surfaces, both natural and synthetic; print media processes such as relief, stencil, embossing, collage, transfer and digital interventions; visual analogistics.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

This unit will involve lectures, demonstrations, discussions, workshop and studio participation. You will also undertake individual research referring to recommended texts, other references and exhibitions.

Assessment

LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.

Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information see the Blackboard site for this unit. FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Staff will provide ongoing feedback throughout workshop and practical sessions. Weight: 0%

Assessment name: Project (applied)
Description: You will be required to submit a folder of 20 original images, which will be based on sample investigations with materials and processes that will be demonstrated in the studio workshop.
Relates to objectives: 1 & 2
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Mid Semester

Assessment name: Portfolio
Description: You will be required to design, create and present a folio of your own work as an extension of the class projects. The folio will emphasize the investigation of cross media solutions and explore relationships between art and graphic design. The format is open-ended, and may result in an edition of works on paper, fabric, low relief or take the form of artist books or other objects or extend to a site specific presentation.
Relates to objectives: 1,2 & 3
Weight: 60%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: End Semester

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

Required Texts

There is no set text for this unit.

Recommended References

Recommended references will be detailed in Week One Unit Information and on the Blackboard site.

Risk assessment statement

You will be instructed on safe procedures and the required safety gear for all gallery, studio and workshop processes that are demonstrated. Health and Safety files are readily available for all materials and machinery in all studio areas. Technical supervision is provided for workshops and available on a regular basis during the week. Technical supervision is mandatory in 3D workshop and printmaking studios. A minimum of three students is required for after-hours access to gallery and studio spaces. Risk assessment forms must be completed and submitted before project work starts. You have an obligation to make yourself familiar with and adhere to the Visual Arts Studio Health and Safety Procedures and Health and Safety Documents. Refer to QUT Health and Safety.

Website: http://www.qut.edu.au/admin/hrd/healthsafehome.htm

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 27-Mar-2013