10 cp
Prerequisites Entry into the BVAD (Honours) course
Teaching Organisation 3 hours per week for twelve weeks or equivalent.

This unit examines debates about how ethical considerations should enter into the practices of art and design. It considers a range of contemporary issues such as truth in advertising for graphic designers, plagiarism in a post-modern world and appropriation of cultural images and artifacts. The ethical and legal implications of the interaction generated between artist, exhibiting institution, and the viewing/purchasing public will be examined, along with the ethical and legal relationships that exist between the artist, designer and client. Students will have the opportunity to focus on a particular area of interest as it relates to their practice as an artist, designer or theoretician.