Art and Design

Course summary

Who is this course for? Studying Art and Design at A Level will equip you with a set of transferable skills both for life and for a wide range of vocational areas. This course is perfect if you want to study art, architecture and design-related subjects and allows you to explore a range of disciplines before deciding which area you want to study at degree level. What is the course about? This specification provides learners with opportunities to develop a broad foundation of critical, practical and theoretical skills and offers learners a holistic understanding of a range of practices and contexts in the visual arts, crafts and design fields, culminating in greater specialism and achievement at A Level. The specification encourages creativity, sustained investigation and analysis, experimentation, and design and making as a means of developing technical and expressive skills. It gives learners the opportunity to follow a programme of study which extends experience and personal response as well as developing imagination and critical and reflective thinking. The ability to innovate, adapt and work independently, which underlies all aspects of the specification, is valued by higher education and employers alike. What can the course lead to? This specification provides a suitable foundation for the study of Art and Design, or a related area, at higher education, a vocational qualification and employment. This industry has countless nooks and crannies that you can specialise in, ranging from popular routes such as architecture, fashion design and photography to animation, set design and web design.