Art and Design A Level
Examining Board: AQA
Overview
This course encourages students to develop different approaches to recording images, such as observation, analysis, expression, and imagination. Students explore a wide range of techniques and materials while investigating artists, designers, and cultural influences using sketchbooks and journals to record their ideas.
Course Content
A Level Art & Design will explore the following areas:
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Drawing and painting from life
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Exploring, using and creating with a wide range of materials
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Developing ideas and themes from personal experience
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2D and 3D techniques, including ceramics and sculptural forms
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Mixed-media, including collage and assemblage
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Printmaking
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Photography
Entry Requirements
5 GCSEs at grade 4 or above, including Mathematics and English Language, and a Grade 5 or higher at GCSE Art, or an equivalent arts subject
How is it Assessed?
Component 1: Personal Investigation, including a 1000–3000-word essay explaining the development of your investigation (60%).
Component 2: Externally set assignment, concluding in a 15-hour exam to produce a final outcome for your studies. This runs between February and May in Year 13 (40%).
Future Pathways with Art and Design
Actor, Advertising, Animator, Architect, Art Therapist, Camera operator, Conservator, Content creator, Fashion Designer, Film Director, Game artist, Graphic Designer, Illustrator, Jeweller, Make-up Artist, Photographer, Prosthetic technician, Teacher, Web Designer, Interior stylist, Hair stylist or anything that needs a spark of creativity.
Art and design also develops your transferable skills such as creative problem-solving, independence, research, and communication that are valued by universities and employers.
