John Paul II High School
Level 3 Design and Visual Communication
Subject Description
Teacher in Charge: Mr R. Ching.
The content of this programme leans heavily towards understanding and applying the design process and relies on the ability of students to generate ideas and then solve design problems.
The focus for Level 3 is generating design ideas from the local environment and developing a product design from those ideas. Students will present their evidence for assessment as separate portfolios of work for each brief. These will be marked for internal assessment before being sent for external assessment.
Students will use a wide range of visual communication techniques including sketching, rendering, instrumental drawing, and CAD (computer aided design).
External Assessment is achieved using a portfolio process and will contain best examples of work completed throughout the year. Students will choose which pieces of work will be submitted in consultation with their teacher. Please note credits for the portfolio will not be given until the end of the year.
The final date for external submission is the end of October unless otherwise notified.
Subject Overview
Term 1
Research, Idea generation
Term 2
Design development, Research, CAD work
Term 3
Instrumental drawing, CAD work, Internal standards completion
Term 4
Portfolio completion and submission
Recommended Prior Learning
Level 2 Design and Visual Communications is a pre-requisite for this course.
Assessment Information
Assessment will be a combination of internal assessments periodically through the year with an external examination in Term 4.Credit Information
You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.
This subject is eligible for subject endorsement.
External
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.30 - Initiate design ideas through exploration
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.33 - Resolve a product design through graphics practice
NZQA Info
Design and Visual Communication 3.34 - Produce working drawings to communicate production details for a complex design
Approved subject for University Entrance
Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 16
This subject forms part of the requirement for University Entrance
Pathway Tags
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