CART13011 - Drawing Practices for Visual Artists

General Information

Unit Synopsis

In this unit, you will extend your competence in drawing so that it may form a key activity in your creative practice. You will use drawing as an expressive mode of communication and develop a portfolio of drawings using a variety of media and approaches. You will also learn how to adapt drawing processes so that they may meet your own creative needs.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 3
Credit Points 6
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 2
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.125
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

18 credit points

Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).

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Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2024

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2024

Attendance Requirements

All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Reflective Practice Assignment 40%
2. Portfolio 60%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University's Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 36.36% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Informal Student Feedback
Feedback
Make further reference to assessment 1 in weekly workshops.
Recommendation
Make further reference to assessment 1 in weekly workshops to support student preparation for this assessment.
Action Taken
In Progress
Source: Teaching Staff Observation
Feedback
Provide a list of suggested titles to support the research and referencing in assessment 1.
Recommendation
Discuss and provide a list of suggested titles to support student research and referencing related to assessment 1.
Action Taken
In Progress
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Discuss various modes of drawing and how they may be beneficial to contemporary visual artists
  2. Analyse how your approaches to drawing may be adapted to better meet the demands of your own creative practice
  3. Integrate formal drawing elements and concepts including line, tone, shape, texture, pattern, proportion, space, perspective and emphasis to produce drawn documents with descriptive and suggestive power
  4. Create a folio of drawings which apply concepts relevant to observational, interpretative and experimental drawings.

No external accreditation is required for this unit.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Reflective Practice Assignment • •
2 - Portfolio • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
1 2 3 4
1 - Communication • • • •
2 - Problem Solving • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • • •
8 - Ethical practice • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 - Reflective Practice Assignment • • • •
2 - Portfolio • • • • •