| Course Name: | COMMUNICATING THROUGH THE ARTS |
| Course ID: | 6324,6320 |
| Course Description: | Students explore career options for the arts and communications pathways of digital arts, literary arts, performing arts, and visual communications. Utilizing community resources, the course emphasizes hands-on applications that include research, design, rehearsal, performance, and reflection. After investigating and experiencing several career pathways, students specialize in an area of interest. Through ongoing collaboration with peers and local professionals, students combine their communication, technical, and performance talents in a culminating production. |
| Credit: | 1 |
| Length: | Semester Course,Full Year Course |
| Grade Level: | 10-12 |
| Course Name: | CREATIVE WRITING |
| Course ID: | 1274,1273 |
| Course Description: | This course explores various types of imaginative writing. Students learn to express themselves creatively and effectively through their writing. Assignments include reading and writing poetry, short stories, plays, children’s stories, and autobiographical narratives, using models from published authors as resources. As a culminating project for the course, the class may produce a school literary magazine. |
| Credit: | 1 |
| Length: | Semester Course,Full Year Course |
| Grade Level: | 10-12 |
| Course Name: | MYTHOLOGY |
| Course ID: | 1237,1234 |
| Course Description: | This course offers students the study of stories of early Greece and Rome which tell of creation, heroes, war and warriors, and famous events. As a result of this course, the student will gain heightened awareness via retention, recall, and application of the content and concepts of the mythologies of the world. |
| Credit: | 1 |
| Length: | Semester Course,Full Year Course |
| Grade Level: | 10-12 |
| Course Name: | POETRY |
| Course ID: | 1337,1335 |
| Course Description: | This course includes the study of a variety of poets, poetry types, and stylistic techniques for the purposes of comprehension, composition, and enjoyment. Students will compile a portfolio that may require publication or submission. |
| Credit: | 1 |
| Length: | Semester Course,Full Year Course |
| Grade Level: | 10-12 |
| Course Name: | PUBLICATIONS |
| Course ID: | 1280 |
| Course Description: | This journalism course includes the study of the newspaper world including its background, language, and value, and the production of a student-based newspaper. |
| Credit: | 0.5 |
| Length: | Semester Course |
| Grade Level: | 10-12 |
* Additional Information:
Prerequisite Course(s): Completion of application and letters of recommendation
May Be Taken for Repeat Credit