Level 3 Design & Visual Communication
Course Description
Teacher in Charge: Miss S. Stewart.
Level 3 Design & Visual Communication
Design and Visual Communication Level 3 is based on applying Year 11 and Level 2 knowledge through a self-managed design process where learners will choose to focus on either a product or spatial design brief they have created for themselves. The course focuses on extending and transforming ideas, a deeper level of thinking, and enhancing their skills across a range of mixed media using a wide range of modes.
Students will think outside the square using 'ideation' as a tool to gather inspiration and allow them to visualize possible ideas to focus on for the year's project. Their brief must be solving a current/future issue that will become the focus of their major project. A great deal of the year's work is on research.
Sketching, rendering, photoshop, CAD, model making, annotating using design judgements are the skills that will be used to resolve the student's design solution. The course is preparing students for University study in Architecture, interior design, landscape design, graphic design, industrial/product design, gaming/animation and much more.
16 Credits are on offer in Level 3 Design & Visual Communication, This is a university approved course.
It is expected that learners have a decent laptop (not a chrome book) and purchase the adobe creative cloud software for 10$ from school mymonitor
https://westlakeschool.sharepoint.com/helpdesk/SitePages/Software%20For%20Students.aspx
Students wanting to participate in scholarship must inform the HOD: Miss Stewart, approval for scholarship is reviewed around August each year.
Course Overview
Term 1
Ideation
Brief into Major Project resolved
Regeneration of Ideas
Term 2
Major Project Concepts / Research
Term 3
Major Project Development and Resolution
Exhibition Design begins
Term 4
Formal Exhibition week 1
Sending External Portfolio submission
Entry Criteria
Successful Completion of Level 2 Design & Visual Communication (14+ credits)
If one or more standards in Level 2 DVC were a Not Achieved grade, the student must seek permission from the HOD: Miss Stewart prior to enrolling.
Equipment/Stationery and Course Costs
Stationery Kits are available for purchase through Gordon Harris:
https://www.gordonharris.co.nz/category/4081-westlake-boys-high-school
Pathway
This course would lead into University study in any of the following areas:
Bachelor of Architecture
Bachelor of Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Assessment Information
16 Credits are available in Level 3 Design & Visual Communication6 internal credits: Either Product or Spatial Design
6 internal credits: Exhibition
4 external credits: Ideation
Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This course is eligible for NCEA Course Endorsement.
This course is approved for University Entrance.
External
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.30 - Initiate design ideas through exploration
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.31 - Develop a visual presentation that exhibits a design outcome to an audience
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.32 - Resolve a spatial design through graphics practice
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.33 - Resolve a product design through graphics practice
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 22
Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.
Pathway Tags
Architect, Industrial designer, designer, graphic designer, design, gaming, photographer, artist, product designer, film, landscape architect, illustrator, advertising, UX designer,
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Disclaimer
Course selection does not guarantee a course will be available or that you have approval to take a course. Final course confirmation is in January and depends on your final results and in rare cases, staff availability.