Course topics.

Try this with Visual Arts

1. Compare the topic list with the current course outline from your school.
2. Pick a topic you can partly explain and identify the exact part you want to work through.
3. Bring one example of the kind of question or task your school uses.

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Topics in the resource inventory

• What NESA means by 'practice': agency, structures and judgement
• Artmaking as a network of procedures: materials, processes, techniques, styles
• Telling art criticism and art history apart in your writing
• Subject matter and form: how representation is built in an artwork
• The 12 expressive forms and what each one lets an artist say
• The artist as agency: assigned and assumed roles across time and place
• The artwork as agency: material, virtual, physical and symbolic properties
• The world as agency — and why it is not the cultural frame
• The audience as agency: critics, curators, publics and changing reception
• The subjective frame: feeling, imagination and intersubjective meaning
• The cultural frame: ideology, identity, class, gender and social meaning
• The structural frame: signs, codes, symbols and visual language
• The postmodern frame: intertextuality, appropriation, irony and critique
• Layering two or more frames on one artwork without contradicting yourself
• Building five HSC case studies that cover practice, framework and frames
• Reading an unseen plate fast: the Section I 5, 8 and 12-mark method
• Structuring the 25-mark Section II essay around an informed point of view
• Choosing and deploying specific artists and artworks as evidence
• Coherence, conceptual strength and resolution across a body of work
• Using the Visual Arts Process Diary as evidence of sustained practice