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). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 2 - 2024
Term 2 - 2024 Profile
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).
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%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 50% 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
Make further reference to assessment 1 in weekly workshops.
Make further reference to assessment 1 in weekly workshops to support student preparation for this assessment.
The requirements for task 1 were comprehensively discussed in weekly workshops.
Source: Teaching Staff Observation
Provide a list of suggested titles to support the research and referencing in assessment 1.
Discuss and provide a list of suggested titles to support student research and referencing related to assessment 1.
A list of suggested resource titles was added to the Moodle site for this unit.
Source: Informal Student Feedback.
Diversity of content/drawing approaches.
The diversity of drawing approaches is valued in this unit. Consider the relevance of this diversity of approaches in future iterations of this unit.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Discuss various modes of drawing and how they may be beneficial to contemporary visual artists
- Analyse how your approaches to drawing may be adapted to better meet the demands of your own creative practice
- 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
- Create a folio of drawings which apply concepts relevant to observational, interpretative and experimental drawings.
No external accreditation is required for this unit.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | ||
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | ||
| 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 | • | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 1 - Reflective Practice Assignment | • | • | • | • | |||||||
| 2 - Portfolio | • | • | • | • | • | ||||||