Description/goals: This short elective course involves learning juggling and other circus skills. Progressing from juggling small scarfs to juggling balls, to juggling clubs and rings. Other circus skills covered will be poi, diablo, flower/devil sticks, spinning plates and hula hoop. Circus skills help unify the body in gaining physical skills regarding hand-eye coordination, balance and enhanced body control. Circus skills are also a lot of fun and can help in relaxing and also to clear the mind, even aiding in meditation. The performance aspect of circus skills would also be practiced. Students would learn not only the skills but also how to tie them together to form a performance and in the art of performing a skill for an audience.

Means of assessment: Assessment would take into account overall skill attainment and progression, depending on whichever skill the student decides to focus on the most. This would include the difference in ability from the start of the course to the end and be done through formative assessment as the course continues. A final assessment would make up the bulk of the grade by being a final performance(or two performance opportunity, if the student so chooses).

Description/goals:

-Develop key skills that prove your aptitude in digital information technology, such as project planning, designing and creating user interfaces, creating dashboards to present and interpret data.

-Participate in a process that underpins effective ways of working in digital information technology, such as the iterative design process, cyber security, virtual teams, legal and ethical codes of conduct.

-Learn the attitudes that are considered most important in digital information technology, including personal management and communication.-Add knowledge that underpins effective use of skills, process and attitudes in the sector such as how different user interfaces meet user needs, how organizations collect and use data to make decisions, virtual workplaces, cyber security and legal and ethical issues.

Means of assessment: coursework with selected project briefs and assignments undertaken through the course

This course offers a wide range of knowledge from video basics to photos, from multimedia content creation to distribution(such as television, social media, the press, and the broadcasting world).

Goals: Participants will be able to develop platform-free skills and abilities required to produce media content for various targets e.g. social media, newsroom, etc.

The assessment will be based on a combination of the following:

-The achieved goals

-The ability to plan and to produce own tasks and content with the help of the teacher

-The quality of the personal course planner and electronic course diary

-The content and the quality of the self-produced multimedia

-Demonstration of theoretical knowledge gained during the course, and the ability to meet deadlines

-Self-assessment

Goals: Get to know the basics of graphic design and what it is like to work as a graphic designer. The course includes:

-Studying principles of good composition, color theory & psychology, typography

-Studying editing program Photoshop/Gimp, editing photographs

-Making a lay out with InDesign-program for a magazine / booklet

-Making illustrations / logos with Illustrator / Inkscape

-Visit to the advertisement office / graphic designer's visit at school

Means of Assessment: Showing evidence of understanding the basics of graphic design and skills to convey a message.

What's going on in music right now? What kind of sounds surround us? How do we use music in today’s world? Where do we need music? How can you create sound and music based on your own preferred types of music?

Description/goals: This music elective has a focus on today’s music. Students will explore what's happening in music right now by searching, listening to and playing songs, themes from the games, advertising music, music therapy and so on. Students can share their own voice by creating something that they find personally interesting. Participants will have space to choose how do they want to express themselves (alone or with others).The overall idea of the course is to listen to and create music that has meaning for the students.

Means of assessment: evaluation of how the student learns to express her/himself by listening to and exploring the creation of her/his own musical products.