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Week 2 **__Preliminary HSC Course. Understanding Content and exam layout for your year exam.__**


 * REVISION of CONTENT……. Appendix… Sample Paper (Please have this handy).**

** PREMISE: Purpose and Focus of the Preliminary Course ** This course provides students with a broadly based experience and enables them to develop understanding in and about the visual arts.

Students learn about:

• the nature of practice in artmaking, art criticism, and art history through different investigations **(PRACTICE)** • agencies in the artworld — artist, artwork, world, audience **(CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK)** • the frames and how students might develop their own informed points of view **(THE FRAMES)** • how they might develop meaning and interest in their work • building understanding over time through various investigations and through working in different forms.

=Content = Different examples are studied to introduce students to the nature of practice which can act as a model for students’ own work. || . || = = = =
 * Practice || •Artmaking, • art criticism and art history.
 * Frames || The frames offer different interpretations of practice, particularly in the sequences, procedures, choices and decisions made by an artist and the point of view represented in their practice.
 * Conceptual Framework || The relationships between the agencies in the art world are considered in terms of how they characterise the practice of artists, critics, historians or students. The examples selected introduce students to different ways that parts of the conceptual framework can be understood. ||

ACTIVITY 1: On you Home page. Have the exam open or a hard copy.
a). How many sections are in the exam paper. Name them. b). How many questions should you answer in Section II c). How many marks are awarded for Question 1 a). How much time should you allow for this question.
 * 1) Look at the sample exam paper. Complete the following activities on your home page.