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Visual Arts in Practice: should I choose it?

Explore the content and the work before you decide. QCE · Queensland

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QCE Visual Arts in Practice: content and assessment

Explore Visual Arts in Practice: Looking inwards (self); Looking outwards (others). Read the actual course outline before choosing.

Confirm your cohort: Visual Arts in Practice 2024 v1.2. Unit options and their order depend on school delivery.

What will I learn?

Unit option A: Looking inwards (self)

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Unit option B: Looking outwards (others)

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Unit option C: Clients

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Unit option D: Transform & extend

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How will I be assessed?

School arrangements: The published tasks below cover unit options. Your school selects a programme; this list is not the number of tasks every student completes.

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Published course / existing guide: Project — Looking inwards (self)

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Published course / existing guide: Resolved artwork — Looking inwards (self)

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Published course / existing guide: Project — Looking outwards (others)

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Published course / existing guide: Resolved artwork — Looking outwards (others)

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Published course / existing guide: Project — Clients

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Published course / existing guide: Resolved artwork — Clients

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Published course / existing guide: Project — Transform & extend

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Published course / existing guide: Resolved artwork — Transform & extend

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Progression and companion subjects

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Will I find it hard?

Difficulty depends on your experience, interests, teaching and assessment. These are our reflection prompts, not an official difficulty rating.

  • Do you enjoy practising, making or performing and responding to feedback?
  • Think about sustained work on a creative project and documenting how your ideas develop.

Does it scale up or down?

Table 6 of QTAC’s 2025 report publishes separate raw and scaled subject medians for General subjects with at least 50 students. No exact course match is attached to this profile. Check the official report; do not infer a direction.

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Sources, versions and verification dates

Profile source metadata last checked: 2026-11-13. A source check is not an endorsement by the authority or confirmation that a future course version is unchanged.

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