

Programme Code: AK3202
Level: 4
Points: 120
Duration: One year full time
Venue: City Campus / Awataha Marae
Start date: 28 February, 2011
Application deadline: This programme will remain open until full.
AUT encourages early application.
This is a one year full time programme providing a pathway to AUT undergraduate qualification in Art and Design. Students experience a range of art and design processes in digital, spatial and graphic design, fashion and visual arts. At the end of the year students will be better prepared to make decisions about future studies and will have a well developed portfolio of artwork.
A distinctive pathway is available for Māori and Pasifika students wishing to explore aspects of Māori and Pasifika cultural practices within their own work. This group is based within a marae and community context, at the Awataha Marae on the North Shore, Auckland. Non-Māori or Pasifika students may also take up this option of study.
WHAT THIS QUALIFICATION COVERS
The qualification provides foundation studies in a number of areas of art and design, which will later lead to specialist fields. Students will develop skills working with a range of art and design materials and processes, and learn how to do research that helps support their own ideas and work. In the student’s chosen area of design or art, they will develop a portfolio of work to support them when moving on to further study.
Papers that students will study are:
114008 Elective Studies (Art and Design Practice) 45 points
114111 Academic Literacies in Visual Communication I 15 points
114112 Academic Literacies in Visual Communication II 15 points
114418 Foundation Studies 45 points