SYLLABUS
Lectures, tutorials, field work and practical classes in which the history and philosophy of design, ergonomics, plastics, furniture design, and exhibition design are examined.
BOOKS
Full details of references will be provided at the start of the subject.
ASSESSMENT
Students' progress through the subject will be determined by progressive assessment of each project undertaken.
DESIGN D 18 points
A subject of twelve hours a week for thirty-one weeks.
Prerequisite: Design C SYLLABUS
Tutorials, field work and individual research and practical projects in which sociological aspects of design, community needs, ergonomics, visual anthropology, program planning, plastics, and furniture design will be examined.
BOOKS
Full details of references will be provided at the start of the subject.
ASSESSMENT
Students will be required to present selected projects for assessment at the completion of the subject.
2 points DRAWING C
Two hours a week.
Prerequisite: Drawing B.
SYLLABUS
Development of an awareness of design problems. Emphasis on development of technical skills and their application to graphic problems.
ASSESSMENT
Students will submit folios at the end of the academic year.
DRAWING D 2 points
Two hours a week.
Prerequisite: Drawing C SYLLABUS
Further development of technical skills—manipulative, and their application to design problems.
An attempt at a development of a personal line of enquiry, i.e. drawing as a vehicle for personal expression.
ASSESSMENT
Students will submit folios at the end of the academic year.
EDUCATION
EDUCATION A 9 points
A subject of three hours a week throughout the year.
No prerequisite.
SYLLABUS
There are two units of equal weight.
• Human Behaviour: An introductory study which aims to develop an awareness and an understanding of human behaviour. Emphasis will be placed on those areas of behaviour which are most relevant to Education and, in particular, Art Education.
• Issues in Education: Seminars and individual reading programs introducing students to a broad range of problems and controversies. Suggested items include—Why have schools? What is the function of a school? Is there knowledge a man must have? What should be included in school curricula?
BOOKS
Reading lists will be available early in 1976.
ASSESSMENT
Tests, assignment and seminar papers. Satisfactory performance in these may exempt students from the final examination.
EDUCATION B 9 points
A subject of three hours a week throughout the year.
Prerequisite: Education A or an approved equivalent.
SYLLABUS
There are four units each of which is studied for six months of the year. These units provide introductory studies in Comparative Education, Educational Psychology.
Educational Sociology and Philosophy.
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In each case there is an introduction to the discipline as such; familiarization with its scope and methods; and a development of awareness of ways in which its study is relevant to both art and education.
Effort will be made to exploit links among units and with Art Education B during the year.
BOOKS
Reading lists will be available early in 1976.
ASSESSMENT
Each unit will be assessed as 'satisfactory or 'unsatisfactory'. An unsatisfactory result in one or more units will result in failure in the subject. If the degree of failure in the case of a one unit failure is not considered serious by the department concerned a pass may be awarded in the subject. Details of tests, assignments, seminar papers and individual projects will be available from the lecturers concerned. Satisfactory performance in these may exempt students from a final examination.
EDUCATION C 9 points
A subject of three hours a week throughout the year.
Prerequisite: Appropriate introductory studies.
SYLLABUS
Students choose two units from the four studies in Education B, viz. Comparative Education, Philosophy, Educational Psychology and Educational Sociology. It should be noted that lack of numbers may preclude the formation of classes in any one of the units.
In the selected units, students will pursue, to a greater depth, studies in the disciplines which relate closely to art and / or education.
Comparative Education: A review of both descriptive studies and problem studies with a selection from both styles including studies of systems in European or Asian countries.
Philosophy: An examination of problems of perception, epistemological theories and implications for any theory of education or art.
Educational Psychology: Students have scope for selection from a range of topics including: theoretical models, concepts of the whole person, aspects of child development, skills and abilities, creativity and art learning, social psychology, learning theories.
Educational Sociology: Lectures and seminars are used to analyse selected sociological theories and investigate implications and problems in their application to education. There will be a detailed scrutiny of the processes involved in socialization and social control.
BOOKS
Reading lists will be available early in 1976.
ASSESSMENT
Each unit will be assessed as 'satisfactory' or 'unsatisfactory'. An unsatisfactory result in either unit will result in failure in the subject. If the degree of failure in one unit is not considered serious by the department concerned a pass may be awarded in the subject. Details of tests, assignments, seminar papers and individual projects will be available from the lectures concerned. Satisfactory performance in these may exempt students from a final examination.
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FINE ARTS
The Fine Arts Department, which is located on the third floor of the Arts Centre, offers the following subjects presently prescribed for the course, Bachelor of Education (Art and Crafts):
Fine Arts A, Fine Arts B, Fine Arts C, Fine Arts D1 and Fine Arts D2.
To fulfil the course requirements, students must complete at least two subjects from Fine Arts A, Fine Arts B, or Fine Arts C.
The academic content of the subjects has been carefully structured to meet both the needs of personal professional development and the current teaching situation in the secondary school.
FINE ARTS A • 9 points
A one-hour lecture and 2 one-hour tutorials a week throughout the academic year.
SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
Students are required to attend the lecture program and participate in tutorials.
No prerequisite.
SYLLABUS
This subject provides a general survey of art movements, mainly in the Western world, from antiquity to the rise of contemporary art. The cultural milieu of the periods presented will be studied in conjunction with the varied manifestations of the visual arts.
Area A—Prehistory and the Beginnings of Civilization
Speculative thought and its role in Biology and Art; Archaeology as a means of interpreting the past; Archaeological Techniques; Prehistory Artefacts; Neolithic Artefacts—with specific reference to Sumer and Egypt.
Area B—Christian Art to 1400 A.D.
The development of religious and secular art forms in Europe and the Near East: early Christian—an underground movement; Byzantine—the Golden Age in Byzantium;
Romanesque—Romanesque Europe; Gothic—Cathedral Cities; International Gothic—rise of the guilds.
Area C—The Renaissance
Art from the proto-Renaissance to 1600, with emphasis on the following: Giotto;
Florentine Humanism; discovery of perspective and objective fidelity; Neo-Platonism and the High Renaissance; Michelangelo, Raphael, Leonardo; Mannerist schools.
Area D—European Art Styles: 1660 to 1874
The Counter Reformation and art; the Baroque—Bernini, Rubens and Rembrandt;
Neo-Classicism and Romanticism; Classical traditions and innovation; attitudes towards art and nature in landscape; Naturalism and Realism in late nineteenth century France; the rise of contemporary movements.
BOOKS
Students should make a selection from the preliminary reading listed below as an initial preparation for each area of the subject. Further bibliographies will be available at the commencement of the lecture program.
Area A:
Gideon, S.
Piggott, S.
Von Daniken, E.
The Eternal Present Oxford London 1964 The Dawn of Civilisation Thames & Hudson
London 1961
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Area B:
Grabar, A.
Male, E.
Schugg- Wille, G.
Area C:
Ham, F.
Molesworth, H.
Wolfflin, H.
Area D:
Bazin, G.
Clark, K.
Sewter, A.
The Beginnings of Christian Art Thames & Hudson London 1967
Religious Art Noonday New York 1968
Art of the Byzantine World Abrams New York 1969
A History of Italian Renaissance Art Thames &
Hudson London 1970
European Sculpture Thames & Hudson London 1965
Renaissance and Baroque Collins London 1964
Baroque and Rococo Thames & Hudson London 1964
Landscape into Art Penguin Ringwood 1966 Neo-Classicism, Romanticism and Realism Thames
& Hudson London Prescribed Reading:
First year students should Fleming, W.
Holt, E.
Pevsner, N.
purchase or have ready access to the following:
Arts and Ideas New and brief edition Holt Rinehart New York 1974
A Documentary History of Art 3 vols Doubleday Anchor New York 1957
An Outline of European Architecture Penguin Ringwood 1972
Reference:
Available in Education Resource Centre, but not for loan:
Huyghe, R. (ed.) Larousse Encyclopedia of Prehistory and Ancient Art Hamlyn London 1967
Osborne, H. (ed.) Oxford Companion to Art Clarendon Press Oxford 1970
World Encyclopedia of Art 13 vols McGraw-Hill New York 1959
ASSESSMENT
Assessment is progressive and is based upon the following:
• two tutorial presentations of an oral and written nature;
• one research assignment;
• one tutorial test of a visual or written nature;
• a final three-hour examination if required.