AS/A2 Level
Art and Design have an externally broad role in the education of young people. In addition to developing the languages of literacy, oracy and numeracy, it is vital that young people become visually aware if they are to become discriminating and critical in respect of the world about them. Additionally, the growth of confidence and skills in Art and Design can lead to young people becoming familiar and comfortable in dealing with their own feelings and intuitions and in empathising with the conditions of others.
AS and A2 Art and Design Course
AS and A2 Art and Design is intended to meet the needs of the following group of candidates:
- Those who whilst having an interest and aptitude in the subject, are not intending to study the subject beyond AS or A2
- Those who will undertake further studies in Art, Craft and Design
- Those who will studies subjects or take up careers for which an Art, Craft and Design background is relevant
It is expected that students embarking on an Advanced GCE Course in Art will have achieved a relevant qualification with a high grade, for example GCE or equivalent.
The AS and A2 specification requires students to develop the skills to:
The AS and A2 specification requires students to develop the skills to:
- Record experiences and observations, mainly in visual form; undertake research and gather, select and organise visual and other appropriate information.
- Explore relevant resources; analyse, discuss and evaluate images, objects and artefacts; and a record of independent judgements.
- Use knowledge and understanding of the work of others to develop and extend thinking and inform own work.
- Generate and explore potential ties of enquiry; the use of appropriate media and techniques.
- Apply knowledge and understanding in making images and artefacts; review and modify work and plan and develop ideas in the light of own and others' evaluations.
- Organise, select and communicate ideas, solutions and responses and present these in a range of visual forms.
