This unit will focus on the development of students' abilities to evaluate and create visual messages, by examining, exploring, and investigating concepts of visual thinking and communication through the creation of two and three dimensional art forms. These arts practice experiences are enhanced through engagement with and articulation of ideas framed, through dialogue with relevant art theories. Here, students engage in the development of an “intelligent eye” and in doing so to consider the importance of visual literacy and visual intelligence. In this context, if images are viewed as a “language", visual literacy can be defined as the ability to deconstruct images and to understand and... -- Course Website
Instructor: J Grenfell
