NZ Diploma in Arts and Design (Level 5)

The project-based learning approach in the diploma places you at the centre of the learning experience and allows for the embedding of theory and practice within the project context. The aim of project-based learning is to facilitate your development of knowledge, creative skills and research skills by beginning the learning journey on any given topic with questions, problems or provocations to be addressed or resolved.

There are four projects at Level 5. These projects are largely prescribed, involve both individual and group learning and include the key foundational creative skills, techniques and theory.

As a graduate of this qualification you will be able to:

• Produce practice-based creative works from a critically engaged personal standpoint informed by contemporary and historic contexts.
• Apply broad knowledge and practical and conceptual skills in the production of arts, craft and/or design work.
• Use investigative tools with creative processes, methods and technologies to develop responses to a brief and solve problems.
• Use research to support the development of ideas and to inform own work within conventions and contexts in arts, craft and/or design.
• Critique own work and the work of others, communicate in a range of situations and present own resolved work in simulated contexts.
• Apply professional practices to manage projects/briefs within defined guidelines and select potential education and employment pathways in arts, crafts and/or design.

Subject areas include:

• Drawing technology
• Graphic Design: Adobe Creative Suite industry standard software including Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Premiere, After-Effects (dependent on projects)
• 3D Design / Sculpture: wood, clay, metal, plastics
• Spatial, Object and Architectural Design
• Printmaking: silkscreen and press printing
• Painting: acrylics, oils, new media