The Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art and Design) is designed to meet the following aims: • To enhance your capacity to learn and develop those faculties and skills which lead to self- reliant learning. • To develop your critical awareness of the contemporary visual world and related contexts. • To develop your ability in methods of creative production. • To develop your understanding and awareness of the opportunities and demands of further studying art and design in order to achieve your potential and realisable goals within higher education (or chosen employment opportunity). • To provide a context in which you can identify and interpret your strengths and direction through progressive exploration of skills and concepts central to art and design practice. • To promote a professional and responsible attitude to yourself, others, and all aspects of study. Personal Development Planning (PDP) • To ensure the academic and professional progress is of great importance in the School of the Arts. Throughout your studies you will have opportunities to think about how you are developing. You can of course discuss your progress at any time with your personal tutor or other members of staff. However we also recommend you make use of the personal development planning schemes that we have developed. These will help you to keep a record of the skills you are acquiring and enhancing, as well as your wider achievements. This will be useful to you in planning for your career and future development.
Name: BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design. Qualification title: BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Qualification type: Assessment Exploratory Stage 1: Unit 1 and 2 Unit 1 Researching, Recording and Responding in Art and Design To pass these units you must include in your portfolio of artwork evidence that you can: Clarify, plan and carry out thorough and wide ranging research from a broad sense of sources, Suspend judgement, in order to open up fields of enquiry into the unfamiliar. Unit 2 Media Experimentation in Art and Design Record animate and inanimate life, the environment and creative solutions. Analyse your own experience and given objectives, as a means of stimulating a personal response, Create a personal response to observations, feelings, situations, events, others work and set objectives. Pathway Stage 2: Unit 3, 4, 5, and 6 Unit 3 Preparation and Progression in Art and Design To pass these units you must include in your portfolio of artwork evidence that you can: Carry out wide ranging experimentation with traditional and more unusual media and materials. Analyse, identify and present the potential and limitations of media for creating ideas and developing solutions. Unit 4 Information and Interpretation in Art and Design Explore and explain others work in terms of visual and/or textual language, characteristics, content and meaning. Draw on others work as inspiration and reference in developing your own ideas and solutions. Unit 5 Personal experimental Studies in Art and Design Carry out radical and extensive experimentation with chosen pathway media, techniques and processes. Enhance your awareness of your own creative intentions when researching ideas. Unit 6 Extended Media Development in Art and Design Research, evaluate and select media and materials to suit your creative intentions. Understand and exploit the potential and limitations of selected materials in your own work. Confirmatory Stage 3: Unit 10 Final Major Project in Art and Design Research and negotiate a project brief which enables your skills to be clearly demonstrated. Plan and manage your own project effectively to produce a finished piece of work(s). Create, develop and realise a final outcome within the time available. Methods of Assessment Feedback at interim points. • Formative Assessment. Your progress is monitored continuously by means of; Tutorial and seminar and critique feedback. Studio feedback during progress of projects. Formal feedback at the end of stages one and two. Assessment feedback forms will indicate the level of your achievement and provide written points for action for you to progress. Unit Assessment:Stages One and Two,you either gain a pass at these two stages or are referred. Stage Three Final grades awarded are: Referred, Pass ,Merit or Distinction. Students work is assessed internally and externally. Stage 1 Assessment: A Portfolio of practical studio work is assessed,written feedback regarding progress is provided against edexcel criteria. Students pass or are referred at this stage. Stage 2 Assessment: Same criteria for assessment in Stage1. Stage 3 Assessment: A visual and verbal presentation of contemporary Art/Design practice. Studio based Final Project work is exhibited in studio space and assessed by specialist staff within the course team. work is then second marked by the course team. Portfolios are then randomly sampled and marks awarded are then verified by external edexcel examiners. Students are graded Pass, merit, and Distinction or are referred. referred students are given individual projects to complete within stipulated deadlines. If you receive a referral it means that the work for a unit or programme stage does not meet the unit criteria or is incomplete. You cannot progress to the next stage of the course (Stage 1 to 2 or 2 to 3) until you have passed all units in the previous stage. If you have not passed a stage you will be given a deadline by which you should resubmit work as directed. On successful completion you may proceed to the next stage of the course. Awarding Pearson Education Ltd (Formerly EDEXCEL) Created 20100727 09:59:26 Updated 20161219 08:38:24
A2 cartridge paper pad Paintbrushes – a variety of sizes, small to large Scissors Pliers Pritt stick Masking tape Oil pastels Eraser Camera – these are very useful for recording and research purposes, if you are able to invest in a camera we suggest an SLR or digital camera (preferably 8 megapixels or more – mobile phones are generally not good enough) Computer – you will undergo computer inductions, and are advised if thinking about purchasing a computer to wait until you are at University and in a specialist area. Equipment required A2 cartridge paper pad Paintbrushes – a variety of sizes, small to large Scissors Pliers Pritt stick Masking tape Oil pastels Eraser Camera – these are very useful for recording and research purposes, if you are able to invest in a camera we suggest an SLR or digital camera (preferably 8 megapixels or more – mobile phones are generally not good enough) Computer – you will undergo computer inductions, and are advised if thinking about purchasing a computer to wait until you are at University and in a specialist area.
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Title: BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Qualification: BTEC Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Classification: Arts, Media and Publishing