Art

Art 10-20-30 (5 credits each)

The series of general art courses—Art 10–20–30—is a unified, sequential program with common goals that span the entire secondary program and focus on three major components of visual learning: Drawings or delineations; Compositions or structures; and Encounters with art. This sequence of courses has a significant studio component.

More specifically, Drawings encompasses the recording, investigating, communicating, evaluating and articulating aspects of making images. Compositions deals with the organizations, components and relationships involved in the creation of images. Encounters involves looking at images and artifacts: the sources of images (finding ideas for making art), transformations through time (learning about the art of other times and changing imagery), and the impact of images (learning to understand and appreciate the purposes and effects of art). Each of these aspects of Drawings, Compositions, and Encounters can be seen to correspond to a program goal, and each has specific objectives associated with it for each grade level.

Competencies and Current Programs of Study:  ARTS EDUCATION (DRAMA, MUSIC, AND ART)

Competencies are combinations of attitudes, skills, and knowledge that students develop and apply for successful learning, living, and working. In school, competencies help students achieve learning outcomes and transfer their learning to new situations. Alberta's curriculum promotes the development of eight competencies, which are a streamlined expression of the competencies identified in the Ministerial Order on Student Learning (#001/2013). The previous are examples that describe home competencies may be expressed within the context of Alberta's current Kindergarten to Grade 12  Arts programs of study.