A Level Design & Technology

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Course Information

Advanced Subsidiary	AS
Advanced Level	A2

Examination Board: WJEC

Course Content

A Level Product Design is essentially a practical course which students will have the opportunity to continue to develop both their design and making skills previously gained at GCSE. The course will be of interest to anyone wishing to pursue a career in the field of Design & Technology but it may equally be considered by students wishing to keep their options open by selecting three or four wide ranging A Levels for university entrance.

In addition to developing their designing and making skills, students will begin to consider the role and responsibilities of the professional designer. This will involve developing an understanding of environmental issues and the application of a variety of techniques within production processes both at an industrial level and in the school workshops.

What You Will Learn

• Problem Solving - to be innovative, creative and work within constraints to produce high quality products. To develop a critical understanding of products from an historical and current practice perspective.
• To develop an understanding of industrial practices.
• To use computers to improve your design work.
• To understand the values inherent in products - historical and current importance of particular products. To develop evaluative skills - by getting you to assess, estimate, calculate and judge to form an opinion. To develop skills as a consumer - what questions to ask when and before buying products,
• Numerical skills - in the use of measurement, scale, graphs, analysis of data, cost comparison.
• Communication skills - contribute to discussions, present the results of investigations to follow students, use diagrams, graphs, production plans.

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