Visual Arts builds understanding of the role of art, in all forms of media, in contemporary and historical cultures and visual worlds. In contemporary societies many types of knowledge are increasingly managed through imagery and spectacle and much of students' knowledge is acquired in this way.
These subjects serve to facilitate the interpretation of such information. They place a high regard on how students develop an informed point of view and encourage tolerance, diversity and empathy between students, teachers and others in the expression of different points of view.
Visual Arts is designed to enable students to:
- gain increasing intellectual autonomy in their abilities to aesthetically and persuasively represent ideas in the visual arts; and
- understand and value how the field of the visual arts is subject to different interpretations.
Visual Arts subjects recognise the contribution that different kinds of knowing make to understanding. They provide for the acquisition of both practical knowledge and propositional knowledge, and acknowledge the different sets of beliefs and values that condition understanding and practice.
A syllabus is a document that gives teachers an outline of what students are to be taught in a specific learning area.
The syllabus and other supporting material for Visual Arts 11-12 are available from the Board of Studies.
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