Course Description
This course helps participants to teach Art History and Art Criticism to Years 7 to 12. Students will employ analogies from the practices of forensic science and crime detection to investigate what art historians and art critics do and how artworks deliver meaning to audiences.

Participants will explore strategies to assist students in their art historical and art critical writing.
For senior students, the course includes approaches for deeper learning and writing of art historical/art critical narratives.
The course addresses content for all Australian Visual Arts syllabuses and the Australian Arts Curriculum.
Ideas will be explored in the following areas:
- European Classical to 19th century art
- Modernism
- Postmodernism
- Indigenous
- Australian
- American
- Pacific
- African
- Asian
- Islamic
Participants will receive pictorial teaching resources as well as summaries and tables.
Audience
Teachers of Visual Arts, Photography, Digital Imaging and Video Years 7 to 12
Teaching Standards
3.3.2 Proficient Level - Plan for and implement Effective Teaching and Learning - Use teaching strategies: Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving, and critical and creative thinking
"I thoroughly enjoyed this course; I am a huge fan of crime shows and movies, so this was right up my alley. I gained such interesting insights on how to break up artworks and essentially dissect them to be a better teacher."
- Hayley Small, Mt Annan Christian College
"I haven't taken a senior class in two years. This course has helped me to brush up on the VA syllabus content area and motivate me to review my upcoming Yr11 program. I feel inspired to develop new content to ignite learning."
- Karen Preston, Mullumbimby High School