SQA Advanced Diploma in Creative Art and Design
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Creative Art and Design provides learners with a progression route into employment. It also provides opportunities for further study, including university degree programmes.
This qualification covers areas such as:
- art and design
- visual communication
- digital imaging
- developmental drawing
- graphic design
The SQA Advanced Diploma in Creative Art and Design consists of 30 unit credits. Each unit credit has approximately 40 hours of timetabled learning and 40 hours of self-guided learning and study. The SQA Advanced Diploma usually takes two academic years to complete, but this timeframe is flexible.
This SQA Advanced Diploma can allow advanced entry to an English-speaking university. SQA’s qualifications are recognised worldwide.
Course Tutor Guide (including Course Framework)
Title: SQA Advanced Diploma in Creative Art and Design
Code: GW12 48
Download: SQA Advanced Diploma in Creative Art and Design Course Tutor Guide
A Guide for Tutors
Communication Units
This document is aimed at tutors who are teaching learners whose first language is not English.
The purpose of this document is to provide a selection of formative exercises that will:
- motivate learners
- increase confidence in communicating effectively in English
- prepare learners to successfully pass the summative assessments
Communication Units for SQA Advanced Qualifications
Research Skills
The guide provides support for developing good practice in how the Research Skills unit might be delivered, scheduled and assessed. It contains guidance on delivering the Research Skills Unit both on a stand-alone basis or integrating with other Units, and provides customised checklists for integration with various Graded Units.
Unit Specifications
- Creative Art and Design: Graded Unit 2 (J8YT 48)
- Creative Art and Design: Graded Unit 1 (J8YR 47)
- Visual Communication: Social Media (HR3C 47)
- Developmental Drawing (HT3X 47)
- Developmental Drawing Portfolio (HT4C 48)
- Digital Imaging (HT5G 47)
- Art and Design Context (HT6E 48)
- Art and Design Project (HT6J 48)
- Creative Project for Artists and Designers (HT6K 48)
- Art and Design: Digital Media Project (HT64 48)
- Graphic Design (J50X 47)
- Design Production (J51C 48)
- Digital Imaging Project (J51E 48)
- Graphic Design Project (J51H 48)
- Photography: Image Editing (J52M 47)
- Typography: An Introduction (J52S 47)
- Visual Communication: An Introduction (J52T 47)
- Visual Communication: Sustainable Design (J52V 47)
- Working in the Field of Visual Communication (J52W 47)
- Preparing for a Role in the Field of Visual Communication (J52X 48)
- Illustration (J510 47)
- Typography (J513 47)
- Illustration Project (J521 48)
Two additional mandatory units
- HR1C 46 Workplace Communication in English at SCQF level 6
- HR0Y 47 Research Skills at SCQF level 7 – Finish date 31/07/2022
- J1NB 47 Research Skills at SCQF level 7 – Start date 01/08/2019
