of functional and non-functional works. Although emphasis is placed on experience with a wide range of techniques, students may extend their involvement with one or more specific approaches as personal forms of expression develop.
Assessment: A folio consisting of a maximum of nine pieces of work, which reflects participation in all aspects of the teaching program (100 per cent).
Results will be graded.
491-213 DESIGN B Credit points: 83
Staff: Werner Hammerstingl.
Prerequisite: Foundation Studies in Design.
Contact A 3-hour lecture/tutorial/studio/workshop session each week. ( Two semesters.)
Content: Design Methods: the design process, methods and the various factors affecting them;
design as a context-bound, people-oriented, dynamic and multi-directional activity. Design Workshops and Projects: further development of design concepts and skills relevant to product or environmental design.
Assessment: Practical work including: class exercises which should reflect knowledge, understanding and skills in problem-solving (40 per cent); two equally- weighted projects (40 per cent); a 2-hour examination (20 per cent). Design projects are evaluated on equal weighting of: preparation evidence of relevant research, problem definition and establishment of design criteria; development originality and appropriateness of concept, development and evaluation of alternative solutions; presentation competent use of appropriate skills, techniques, media or materials, and an appropriate final presentation. Minimum 80 per cent attendance.
Results will be graded.
491-310 DESIGN C Credit points: 16.7 Staff: Robert Treseder.
Prerequisite: Design B or Graphic Communication B.
Contact: Two 3-hour lecture, tutorial, studio, workshop or field study sessions each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: History and Philosophical Aspects.
Computer Graphics. Program Planning in the context of the secondary school curriculum. Design Workshops and Graphics: further development of design concepts and skills relevant to graphic, product or environmental design.
Assessment: Six equally-weighted projects - one in each of the first three major areas of study and three
in Design Workshops and Projects (100 per cent).
Design projects are evaluated on equal weighting of:
preparation evidence of relevant research, problem definition and establishment of design criteria;
development originality and appropriateness of concept, development and evaluation of alternative solutions; presentation competent use of appropriate skills, techniques, media or materials, and an appropriate final presentation. Minimum 80percent attendance. Results will be graded.
491-127 DRAMA PROJECT STUDIES Credit points: 8.3
Staff: Angela O'Brien.
Contact: Workshops will be offered in timetabled hours during the week, at weekends and during vacations, to an approximate average of three hours a week. (First or second semester.)
Content: Students undertake a project designed to develop drama skills and techniques and/or allow for the sustained exploration of an aspect of drama or drama in education. Projects are individually negotiated and draw upon existing units in the graduate and undergraduate programs.
Assessment: Participation in, and contribution to, group-based activities (10 percent); up to 2000 words of written work and/or up to one hour of performance consisting of both group and individual work), by negotiation (90 per cent). Results will be graded.
491-181 DRAWING A Credit points: 7.5
Staff: Christopher Palmer.
Contact: A 2-hour discussion/studio or field study session each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: An introduction to the representation of made and natural forms using drawing systems and conventions such as linear perspective, tonal contrast, overlapping planes, contours and chiaroscuro.
Mediums will include: pencil, in various grades, watercolour and charcoal on appropriate supports.
Assessment: Practical work including: problem- solving exercises (40 percent); a folio of ten drawings which should reflect participation in all aspects of the program (40 per cent); a 2-hour examination (20 per cent). Minimum 80 per cent attendance. Results will be graded.
491-215 DRAWING B1 Credit points: 5.6 Staff: Claire Day.
Special requirements: Students must enrol in both Drawing B l and Drawing B2.
Prerequisite: Drawing Al.
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study session each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: An introduction to the representation of complex forms, using systems, conventions and technical procedures introduced in the previous year;
the study of issues relating to image-making and aesthetics.
Assessment: A folio of up to forty pieces of work which reflects pa rticipation in all aspects of the teaching program (100 per cent). Results will be graded. Minimum 80 per cent attendance.
491-216 DRAWING B2 Credit points: 5.6
Staff: Christopher Palmer.
Special requirements: Students must enrol in both Drawing B1 and Drawing B2.
Prerequisite: Drawing Al.
Contact: A 2-hour lecture, discussion, studio or field study session each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: An introduction to formal representational Drawing Systems and Techniques: orthographic, oblique, axonometric and perspective. Drawing Procedures and Conventions: types of drawing, drafting, engineering and architectural drawing.
Assessment: Practical work including: problem- solving exercises (60 percent); two equally-weighted projects (40 per cent). Minimum 80 per cent attendance. Results will be graded.
491-312 DRAWING Cl Credit points: 8.3 Staff: Claire Day.
Prerequisites: Drawing B1 and Drawing B2.
Contact: A 2-hour lecture/discussion/studio or field study session each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: Revision of cognitive aspects of drawing introduced in previous years. Exercises to assist students in gaining an understanding of the relationship between aim, time, medium and method.
Drawings will be based on the human figure, landscape, man-made structures and still life. Issues relating to image-making and aesthetics will be studied.
Assessment: A folio of up to forty pieces of work which reflects participation in all aspects of the teaching program (100 per cent). Results will be graded. Minimum 80 per cent attendance.
Prescribed texts: Eisler C The Drawings of the Masters (series) Little Brown and Co Boston 1976.
491-313 DRAWING C2 Credit points: 8.3
Staff: Christopher Palmer.
Prerequisites: Drawing B1 and Drawing B2.
Contact: A 2-hour lecture/discussion/studio or field study session each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: Drawing to extend thinking as distinct from drawing to communicate a well formed idea;
seeing, imagining and drawing as a cyclic feed-back process; visual brainstorming; interaction of thought and language; drawing and rendering skills and presentation techniques appropriate to concept visuals, finished renderings and design illustrations.
Assessment: Practical work including: problem- solving exercises (40 per cent); a folio of ten finished renderings (60 per cent). Minimum 80 per cent attendance. Results will be graded.
471-208 EDUCATION B Credit points: 38.9
Staff: General Education Studies - David Nance. Art Education - Maggie Hegarty. School Experience - Mary Learmonth.
Prerequisite: Education A or an approved equivalent.
Contact: General Education Studies Component A 2-hour seminar each week. Art Education Component: a combination of sessions of a 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week, and a 2-hour seminar each week. School Experience Component:
20 days. (Two semesters.)
Content: Education B is the second-year subject in the sequence of Education Studies. The general theme is `Teaching and Learning'. The subject comprises three components: General Education Studies, Art Education, and School Experience.
General Education Studies The following areas/
issues will be covered and where possible inter- linked with the Art Education component as preparation for School Experience: the adolescent learner and the learning process; introduction to teaching strategies and classroom interaction processes; socio-cultural influences on learning; a consideration of differing concepts of teaching and learning.
Art Education The learner and the learning process in art studies: childrens' artistic growth, adolescent art, creativity and a rt programs, aesthetic growth and awareness. Preparation for teaching: general and specific rationales, lesson planning - aims and objectives, sequential lessons, pacing a lesson, questioning techniques and reflective dialogue, approaches to discipline, classroom organisation, lesson evaluation by student, teacher and supervisor.
School Experience 20 days in a secondary school or schools (two block programs of two weeks' duration).
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Assessment: Students must satisfactorily complete each component; assessment is on a Pass/Fail basis.
General Education Studies Class presentations, exercises and set assignments totalling 6000 words.
Minimum 80 per cent attendance.
Art Education Two 20-minute tutorials; a 2000-word written assignment; a resource folder with at least two mounted teaching aids, one three-dimensional teaching aid, a bibliography and a folder of resource ideas for lessons. Minimum 80 per cent attendance.
School Experience Satisfactory participation in and completion of the 20-day School Experience Program.
471-317 EDUCATION C Credit points: 36.1
Staff: General Education Studies - Geoff Hammond.
Art Education - Lee Emery. School and Field Experience - Mary Learmonth.
Prerequisite: Education B.
Contact General Education Studies: a 1 1/2-hour seminar each week for two semesters. Art Education: a 1-hour lecture and a 1-hour tutorial each week for a half-semester, and a 2-hour seminar each week for 1 1/2 semesters; two excursions during seminar hours. School Experience: 20 days. (Two semesters.)
Content: Education C is the third-year subject in the sequence of Education Studies. The general theme is 'Curriculum Issues: Content and Process'. The subject comprises three components: General Education Studies, Art Education, and School Experience.
General Education Studies The following areas/
issues will be covered and, where possible, will be inter-linked with the Art Education component.
Contemporary approaches to school curriculum including: access and success as guiding principles in Victorian education; approaches to the major areas of knowledge within the curriculum; ways in which school-based decision-making processes and the VCE and Curriculum Frameworks influence current directions; an examination of particular policy initiatives such as Integration Programs and Equal Opportunity Programs. School organisation and curriculum development and implementation, including: parent and student participation, negotiated curriculum, diversity of school structures and ways of grouping students, school-wide strategies to provide for discipline and pupil welfare and close links with the local community. Art and the Curriculum; the sociological implications of recent policy initiatives in the area of a rt education.
Art Education Teaching methodologies and program planning in art/craft teaching, with emphasis on program design in art education, examining changing directions in Victorian education.
School Experience 20 days in a secondary school or
schools (two block programs of 2 weeks' duration).
Provision is made for an optional 10-week program of one day each week in place of the second block.
Assessment: Students must satisfactorily complete each component; assessment is on a Pass/Fail basis.
General Education Studies Class presentations, exercises and set assignments totalling 5000 words.
Minimum 80 per cent attendance.
Art Education A 1500-word assignment, a 1000- word assignment; a 500-word/15-minute class presentation, to a total of 4000 words. Minimum 80 per cent attendance.
School Experience Satisfactory participation in and completion of the 20-day School Experience program.
417-413 EDUCATION D Credit points: 38.9
Staff: General Education Studies - Jan Allan. Art Education - Lee Emery, Geoff Hammond. School and Field Experience - Mary Learmonth.
Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of Education C.
Contact: General Education Studies: a 2-hour class each week for one semester; individually negotiated contracts. Art Education: Art Curriculum Studies - a 2-hour seminar each week for two semesters; Art Program Development — a 2-hour seminar each week for 15 weeks. School Experience: 20 days. (Two semesters.)
Content: Education D is the fourth-year subject in the sequence of Education Studies. The general theme is 'The Professional Teacher in the School Community'. The subject comprises three components: General Education Studies, Art Education and School Experience.
General Education Studies Students may either choose one elective from a program of electives dealing with current issues affecting the professional work of secondary teachers, or negotiate a contract of study and research, to be carried out under the supervision of nominated staff.
Art Education Art Curriculum Studies and Art Program Development. Art Curriculum Studies (two- thirds of the time for the Art Education component):
Art curriculum theory and practice. Contemporary issues in art education in the context of broad curriculum, educational and cultural developments.
Factors which influence perceptions of the nature and value of visual art in society generally and as a study in schools, including: influential writers, sources of patronage, popular cultural forms, community arts, media and technological developments, changing attitudes to education and schooling, ethnicity, different approaches to teaching and evaluating visual arts programs and the increasing role of professional organisations. Case studies of art education in selected schools. A negotiated research
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Program Development (one-third of the total time for the Art Education component): Studies directly related to classroom practice and the School Experience program. In consultation with the Lecturer, students will design, teach (during the 4- week School Experience Period), and evaluate an art program in a secondary school.
School Experience A school experience program of four weeks' (20 days) duration. Alternatively, provision is made for an optional 20-week program of one day a week. Preliminary and follow-up instruction for this program is undertaken in the Art Program Development section.
Assessment: Students must satisfactorily complete each component; assessment is on a Pass/Fail basis.
General Education Studies Written work totalling 4000 words. Minimum 80 per cent attendance.
Art Education Minimum 80 per cent attendance in both sections. Art Curriculum Studies: Research projects and other written work totalling 4000 words.
Art Education Method: Written work totalling 3000 words.
School Experience Satisfactory participation in and completion of the 20-day School Experience program.
Foundation Studies in Art And Design On completion of the subjects which constitute the foundation studies in art and design, students should be able to demonstrate: an understanding of the nature of the visual arts and its relevance and application to education; an understanding of the importance of the visual arts in the context of personal expression; a knowledge and understanding of the importance of sound techniques and methods when producing works of art; and a knowledge and understanding of the basic materials and methods appropriate to the mediums.
491-183 CERAMICS/SCULPTURE A Credit points: 12.5
Staff: Noel Flood.
Contact: A 2-hour studio session and one hour of studio access each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: An introductory study of visual language as it relates to 3D art through ceramics and sculpture.
Students will be introduced to a range of materials and methods of production and encouraged to develop the plastic arts as a means of expression.
Assessment: A folio of up to 12 pieces of work which reflects participation in all aspects of the teaching program. Results will be graded.
491-184 CLOTHING AND TEXTILES A Credit points: 12.5
Staff: Carolyn Roberts, Margaret Stefanovic.
Contact: A 2-hour studio session and one hour of studio access each week. (All year.)
Content: An introductory study to develop basic knowledge, understanding and skills relevant to textiles and the making of simple garments.
Assessment: A folio of three practical projects developed from various units of study (75 per cent);
a studio/resource book which includes introductory class exercises and experimental sketches (25 per cent). Results will be graded.
491-186 DESIGN AND GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION A
Credit points: 17.5
Staff: Lindy Joubert, Lucy Perillo.
Contact: A 3-hour combined lecture/studio session each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: Unit 1: Design - An introduction to design elements and principles, design information, methods and visual language. Unit2: Graphic Communication An introduction to the use of signs and symbols.
Assessment: Students must obtain a satisfactory result in each unit. Minimum 80 percent attendance.
Results will be graded. Unit 1: Design (60 per cent of subject) Class exercises which should reflect participation in all aspects of the program (40 per cent of Unit 1); two equally-weighted practical projects (40 per cent of Unit 1); a 1-hour examination (20 per cent). Unit 2: Graphic Communication (40 per cent of subject) Class exercises which should reflect participation in all aspects of the program (60 per cent of Unit 2); two equally-weighted practical projects (40 per cent of Unit 2); a 1-hour examination (20 per cent).
491-182 PAINTING/PRINTMAKING/
PHOTOGRAPHY A Credit points: 17.5
Staff: Painting - Wilma Tabacco. Printmaking - Stephen Spurrier. Photography - Colin Lawn.
Contact: The equivalent of a 3-hour studio session and 1 1/2 hours of studio access each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: An introductory study of visual language through Painting, Printmaking, and Photography selected from the following: preparation and use of painting grounds and mediums; etching, screen printing, lino cuts; camera operation and darkroom skills. Theoretical studies, exhibition reviews and safety procedures are included.
Assessment: A folio which reflects participation in all aspects of the teaching program, consisting of up to five paintings, five editions of prints, six skill- based photographic tasks and a photographic essay (80 per cent); a 500-word exhibition review for each
study (10 per cent); visual journals of ideas, source material and, where appropriate, technical notes (10 percent). Students must attain a satisfactory result in painting, printmaking and photography. Minimum 80 per cent attendance. Results will be graded.
491-185 WOOD/METAL A Credit points: 12.5
Staff: Geoff Clague, Robin Panousieris.
Contact A 2-hour studio session and one hour of studio access each week. (Two semesters.)
Content An introduction to wood, metal and related materials. The design process in relation to the making of objects and the development of basic skills in the use of a variety of tools and materials. Appropriate aspects of health and safety and their application to the school setting.
Assessment A folio consisting of up to four projects in wood and four projects in metal (85 per cent); a studio resource book including class notes, design concepts, production methods and development (15 per cent). Results will be graded.
491-250 GARMENT CONSTRUCTION B Credit points: 8.3
Staff: Margaret Stefanovic.
Prerequisite: Bachelor of Education (Primary) students: Art A31 or approved equivalent. Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts) students: the Garment Construction unit of Foundation Studies in Crafts.
Contact A 2-hour discussion/studio session and one hour of studio access each week. ( Two semesters.) Content A study of four major areas related to developing simple patterns for individual garment designs: the processes and skills required to construct simple garments, as well as evaluating suitable fabrics to interpret individual designs.
Assessment: A folio of up to three completed garments to specified requirements plus toile of slacks draft to own measurements (75 per cent);
recording of class exercises and/or designated research (25 per cent). Results will be graded.
491-345 GARMENT CONSTRUCTION C Credit points: 16.7
Staff: Margaret Stefanovic.
Prerequisite: Garment Construction B.
Contact Two 2-hour discussion/studio sessions and two hours of studio access each week. (Two semesters.) Content An extension of processes and skills as used in tailored garments for interpretation of individual garment designs; extension of the flat pattern cutting and appropriate fabric selection for selected fashion designs.
Assessment: A folio of a tailored jacket or coat incorporating special design features, plus up to three completed garments made to own design by use of own basic block (75 per cent); recording of class exercises and/or designated research (25 per cent). Results will be graded.
491-251 GRAPHIC COMMUNICATION B Credit points: 8.3
Staff: Werner Hammerstingl.
Prerequisite: Foundation Studies in Art and Design.
Contact: A 2-hour lecture/tutorial/studio/workshop session each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: Methods of Presentation: an introduction to conventional methods of presenting ideas and information and the use of representational drawing systems. Computer Graphics: an introduction to the fundamentals of interactive computer graphics.
Assessment: Submission of class exercises which should reflect all aspects of the program (30 per cent); a project in Methods of Presentation (20 per cent); a folio/note-book which should reflect all aspects of the program (30 per cent); an exercise in Computer Graphics (20 per cent). Minimum 80 per cent attendance. Results will be graded.
491-428 MEDIA ARTS PRACTICAL PROJECT Credit points: 8.3
Staff: Arthur Cantrill.
Contact: A 2 to 3-hour workshop each week. (Two semesters.)
Content: Individually-negotiated projects involving the development of skills in practical areas of media arts, drawing upon existing units in the undergraduate program. Offerings currently include film animation, optical printer film-making and video image-making, and may involve both group and independent work.
Assessment: Class participation and contribution to group-based activities (10 per cent); written work of up to 10 pages and/or performance of up to 10 minutes), by negotiation (90 per cent). Results will be graded.
491-254 METALCRAFT B Credit points: 8.3
Staff: Geoff Clague.
Prerequisite: Bachelor of Education (Primary) students: Art A32 or approved equivalent. Bachelor of Education (Visual Arts) students: the Metalcraft unit of Foundation Studies in Crafts.
Contact: A 2-hour discussion/studio session and one hour of studio access each week. (Two semesters.) Content: A consolidation of Metalcraft techniques, with the opportunity to develop additional skills