13ARTH

Level 3 Art History

Course Description

Students have a one hour video conference lecture each week with their art history teacher, and study independently for the other three classes, for a total of four timetabled hours a week. They may choose to specialise in either Renaissance or Modernist study options. Course endorsement and scholarship study are available. Collaborative knowledge building and technology will be used to support and enhance learning in this course. Access to a computer or similar portable device is essential.

Topics covered:

Late Renaissance to Mannerism:

The influence of classical ruins and writings, inspiring human achievement, religious faith and the rise of the individual, and the politics and corruption of powerful leaders are all included in a study of mid-to-late fifteenth-century Italian culture and contexts, to be explored through painting, sculpture and architecture. Artists studied include Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and Titian.

Early Modernism 1900–1940:

Freud, psychoanalysis and the unconscious mind; the study of dreams, philosophy, theosophy, primitivism and utopianism; the politics and violence of war, social change heralded by science, technology, industrialisation and consumerism; and the politics of socialism and communism are all included in a study of early twentieth-century European culture and contexts, to be explored through Modernist art styles including Cubism, Orphism, Futurism, Fauvism, German Expressionism, Abstraction, De Stilj, Dada, and Surrealism. Artists studied include Picasso, Matisse, Mondrian, Kandinsky, Beckmann, Duchamp, Hoch, Magritte, and Dali.

Credits available:

20 credits will be available for a full year of learning and assessment in this course – 16 internally assessed credits & 4 externally assessed credits.



Recommended Prior Learning

Senior Art is helpful

Pathway

University Entrance

Credit Information

You will be assessed in this course through all or a selection of the standards listed below.

This course is eligible for subject endorsement.

This course is approved for University Entrance.

Total Credits Available: 28 credits.
Externally Assessed Credits: 12 credits.
Internally Assessed Credits: 16 credits.

Assessment
Description
Level
Internal or
External
Credits
L1 Literacy Credits
UE Literacy Credits
Numeracy Credits
A.S. 91482 v2
NZQA Info
Art History 3.1 - Demonstrate understanding of style in art works
Level: 3
Internal or External: External
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r,4w *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91483 v2
NZQA Info
Art History 3.2 - Examine how meanings are communicated through art works
Level: 3
Internal or External: External
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91484 v2
NZQA Info
Art History 3.3 - Examine the relationship(s) between art and context
Level: 3
Internal or External: External
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r,4w *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91485 v2
NZQA Info
Art History 3.4 - Examine the impact of media and processes on art works
Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91486 v1
NZQA Info
Art History 3.5 - Construct an argument based on interpretation of research in art history
Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91487 v1
NZQA Info
Art History 3.6 - Examine the different values placed on art works
Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r *
Numeracy Credits: 0
A.S. 91488 v2
NZQA Info
Art History 3.7 - Examine the relationship(s) between a theory and art works
Level: 3
Internal or External: Internal
Credits: 4
Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
University Entrance Literacy Credits: 4r *
Numeracy Credits: 0
Credit Summary
Total Credits: 28
Total Level 1 Literacy Credits: 0
Total University Entrance Literacy Credits: 28
Total Numeracy Credits: 0

Approved subject for University Entrance

Number of credits that can be used for overall endorsement: 28

Only students engaged in learning and achievement derived from Te Marautanga o Aotearoa are eligible to be awarded these subjects as part of the requirement for 14 credits in each of three subjects.

Pathway Possibilities

Historian,