Code: NA
Title: Senior Graphics
Pre-requisites: TBA
Outcome levels: NA
Coordinator: Mr Ian Hall

Graphics contributes significantly to students’ technological literacy and, specifically, to the communication, analytical and problem-solving skills of students regardless of their educational or vocational aspirations.

In the Graphics course, students experience a variety of intellectual challenges involving planning, refinement, production and evaluation, as they develop a range of associated practical skills.

Topics

Senior graphics has 3 major content areas with these areas using other contextual themes to direct the student work.

Production Graphics, Business Graphics and Built Environment

Assessment

Aims

• develop knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of graphical communication
• cultivate awareness of the importance of graphical languages as modes of communicating ideas and information
• generate skill in the application of technological aids and systems to the presentation of graphical information
• extend skills of collecting, selecting, organising and presenting information in graphical forms

Graphics requires students to use language to communicate in a variety of ways: spoken, written, and visual. The learning of language is a developmental process. When writing, reading, questioning, listening and talking about Graphics, students should use the specialised vocabulary related to Graphics.

The course has been divided into four units of work. Foundation Studies introduces students to the underlying principles as outlined in the areas of study, and three contextual units.

Contextual units have been designed to integrate, expand upon and apply the underlying principles of graphics in situations that are as close to industry practice as possible. It is important that a balanced delivery of Foundation Studies and the three contextual units will be achieved over the two-year course.

Assignment guidelines

Please refer to the Assignment Guidelines on how to set out bibliographies and references.

Resources

Year 11 assessment plan 2009

Related Links

TBA