Art and Design A Level
Introduction
This course encourages students to develop:
- Intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive powers
- Investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical and expressive skills, aesthetic understanding and judgement
- An understanding of the relationships between art and artists and an awareness of the contexts in which they operate
- Knowledge and understanding of art, craft and design in contemporary societies, and in other times and cultures.
Assessment Criteria
Students will be assessed to these criteria.
Looking Further Ahead
Art can open the door to careers in Graphic Design and Communication, Advertising, Furniture Design, Jewellery Making, Photography, Architecture, Interior Design, Textile Design, Fashion Design, Surface Pattern Design, Web and Game Design and many more.
Art A level pupils have gone on to study Fashion, Architecture, Fine Art, Photography and Graphic Design. Recent destinations have included Bristol University, UAL Chelsea, Central St Martins and Nottingham Trent University.
