A-level Art and Design provides students with opportunities to develop personal responses to ideas, observations, experiences, environments and cultures in practical, critical and contextual forms. This four-unit specification, two at AS level and two at linear A level, requires students to develop their ability to show a range of skills. These include: · independence of mind in developing their own ideas · an interest and enthusiasm for art and design · the experience of working with a range of media, including traditional and new media and technologies · an awareness of different roles, functions, audiences and consumers of art and design practice.