WJEC Level 3 Diploma in Foundation Studies (Art, Design and Media)
Qualification summary
This diploma aims to build on and enhance the learner's prior experience. Building on previously acquired skills, learners will experience a range of experiences centred around exploration and experimentation. This approach allows learners to make informed decisions about future progression on to Higher Level Education or into related employment within the creative industries.
In more specific terms, the specification aims to encourage and promote:
•independence and the ability to take responsibility for own learning and development;
•opportunities to identify and develop individual strengths and interests;
•intellectual, imaginative, creative and intuitive development;
•investigative, analytical, experimental, practical, technical and expressive skills, aesthetic understanding and critical judgement;
•an awareness of the interrelationships between art, design, media and a recognition of the contexts in which they operate, informed by first-hand experience of original works;
•knowledge and understanding of art, design and media in contemporary society and in other times and cultures;
•opportunities for the importance of locality, language and culture to be identified and explored;
•knowledge and understanding of art, design and media in terms of future personal potential and development, identifying opportunities for Higher Education and future employment;
•opportunities to prepare for the ‘real world’ of enterprise, initiative, competition and, in some circumstances, strict quality control;
•equality of opportunity and promote good relations between people of different racial groups;
•promote positive attitudes towards disabled people.
Qualification details
OG - Other General Qualification
Accreditation start date:
Operational start date in centres:
For information on the approval of qualifications for funding in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, see the links to DCSF, DIUS, DCELLS, DELNI and DENI below.
When undertaking a qualification that does not appear on the governments' lists as eligible for funding for specific age ranges, users must be aware of legal requirements. Not all qualifications are suitable for all age ranges.
For further information on 14-19 qualifications offered in England, please refer to the DCSF
Section 96 website.
For further information on 19+ qualifications offered in England, please refer to the DIUS
Section 97 website.
For further information on Wales, visit the
DCELLS website.
For further information on Northern Ireland, visit the
DELNI and
DENI websites.
The programme is designed to harness the diversity of art and design theory and practice so that learners can make informed decisions about career progression. Invariably this will involve progression on to Higher Education within Art & Design as well as providing opportunities for those learners wishing to pursue employment opportunities.
Fine Artist
Graphic Designer
Photographer
Product Designer
Sculptor
Textile Designer
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09 Arts, Media and Publishing
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09.2
Crafts, Creative Arts and Design
All Assessment Criteria in each Unit must be met in order to achieve a Pass grade for that Unit. Each centre will devise a scheme of work which delivers this requirement.
The proportion of the total marks available for assessment will be:
25% for Stage 1
25% for Stage 2
50% for Stage 3.
Learners will select and present work for assessment which shows the ability to sustain own lines of enquiry and demonstrates strengths across areas of knowledge and understanding and the range of skills defined in the assessment criteria (Please refer to Section 3, Specification Content).
An assessment checklist for learners is provided within appendix B of the specification.
All Stages must be available for internal assessment and external moderation. The system of moderation is described within appendix C of the specification.
All units are mandatory.
Stage 1 (Unit 1) Personal Audit in Art, Design and Media - Level 3
Stage 2 (Unit 2) Exploratory Pathways in Art, Design and Media - Level 3
Stage 3 (Unit 3) Final Major Project in Art, Design and Media - Level 4
Stage 1 - offers a diagnosis of a learner’s knowledge, understanding and skills.
Stage 2 - offers a possible prognosis for future development, building upon personal creative strengths. It builds on Stage 1 allowing for greater depth of study achieved by one or more of the following:
• Greater specialisation in a particular medium or process;
• Extended development of particular themes, projects, ideas or issues;
• Further theoretical research;
• More rigorous exploration of an inter-disciplinary or multi-disciplinary approach;
• Increasing individual learner responsibility for the research, making and presentation of work, which is developed through to the final project exposition.
Stage 3 - builds on the learning experiences of the previous two Stages. Learners will set up a personal response to a negotiated brief that enables them to work within their discipline preference or specialism. They will produce a final exposition of work and introduce this through a reflective Personal Review.
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Y/100/4985 - Personal Audit in Art, Design and Media
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D/100/4986 - Exploratory Pathways in Art, Design and Media
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H/100/4987 - Final Major Project in Art Design and Media incorporating a Personal Review