Code: A1ACAD
Please note, course costs shown are per year.
Improve your visual expression and your understanding of the creative process while building a portfolio of work for university interviews.
As well as developing your skills in visual recording through practical work including drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking and mixed media, you will also build your critical thinking and research abilities with contextual study of artists and their relationship to the world around them.
Your work will also involve an element of self-reflection, writing annotations to discuss your own work and its relation to briefs and artists studied, helping you to critique your own work and feed this into your future work.
There are four assessment objectives that are given weighted application to all parts of the course:
Year 12:
Skill Building
In the first and second term you will
complete a variety of tasks that introduce you to different techniques and
materials. You will also be introduced to and select a variety of different
Artists to research and create a personal response to.
Unit 1 Personal Investigation
Towards the end of year 12
you will start to prepare for your Personal Investigation by selecting a theme
to research and investigate.
Year 13:
Unit 1 Personal Investigation
You will continue to
research and develop outcomes for your Personal Investigation. You will also
produce a piece of written research that looks at some wider aspect of your
theme. This will run from September to January.
Unit 2 Externally Set Task
From February to April, you
will research one of the set themes from the exam paper and then have 15 hours
to produce, unaided, your outcome.
Minimum Entry Requirements:
All Loughborough College
Sixth Form courses have minimum entry requirements of at least five GCSEs at
grade 4 or above, including English Language and Maths.
Subject Specific Entry Requirements:
Art or Design at
grade 5.
A Level Art prepares you for degree-level study in art and design, and careers in everything from graphic design, illustration and typography to sculpture, fashion and photography.
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