Visual Design 7–10 Syllabus (2004)
Find out more about the Visual Design 7–10 Syllabus (2004) and access teaching and learning support materials.
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About the course
The study of visual design enables young people to develop an interest in and enjoyment of investigating the evolving practices, technologies and ideas of this art form. Through critical reflection and acquiring understanding, knowledge and skills, students respond to the designed images, objects and ideas of others, by creatively developing their own ideas, designs and artworks.
Visual Design provides opportunities for students to enjoy making and studying visual design artworks and to become informed about, understand and write about their contemporary world. It enables students to represent their ideas and interests about the world in visual design artworks and provides insights into new technologies, different cultures, and the changing nature of visual design in the 21st century.
Students are provided with opportunities to make and study visual design artworks in greater depth and breadth than through the Visual Arts elective course.
The Visual Design Years 7–10 syllabus includes Life Skills outcomes and content for students with special education needs.
Students learn about the pleasure and enjoyment of making different kinds of visual design artworks in print, object and space–time forms. They learn to represent their ideas and interests with reference to contemporary trends and how web designers, architects, commercial and industrial designers, space, light and sound designers, graphic designers and fashion, accessory and textile designers make visual design artworks.
Students learn about how visual design is shaped by different beliefs, values and meanings by exploring visual designers and visual design artworks from different times and places, and relationships in the artworld between the artist/designer – artwork – world – audience. They also explore how their own lives and experiences can influence their making and critical and historical studies.
Students learn to make visual design artworks using a range of materials and techniques in print, object and space–time forms, including ICT, to build a folio of work over time. They learn to develop their research skills, approaches to experimentation and how to make informed personal choices and judgements. They learn to record procedures and activities about their making practice in their Visual Design journal.
They learn to investigate and respond to a wide range of visual designers and visual design artworks in making, critical and historical studies. They also learn to interpret and explain the function of and relationships in the artworld between the artist/designer – artwork – world – audience to make and study visual design artworks.
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 2070 Visual Design 200 hours
- 2071 Visual Design 100 hours
- 2072 Visual Design Life Skills 200 hours
- 2073 Visual Design Life Skills 100 hours
Exclusions: Students may not access both the Visual Design Years 7–10 outcomes and content and the Visual Design Life Skills outcomes and content.
Visual Design is an elective course that can be studied for 100 or 200 hours at any time after the completion of the Visual Arts 100-hour mandatory course.
Students are required to produce a folio of work and keep a Visual Design journal.
Information about curriculum requirements for the RoSA are available on Assessment Certification Examination (ACE).
Assessment information and support
Teaching and learning support
Use these support materials to guide and plan your teaching and assessment.
The Life Skills outcomes worksheet can be used to collect information on the outcomes that a student has achieved before recording them in Schools Online.