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(MVAPH11)
Enhancement Fee $50.00
This is an introductory course designed to give students a good foundation in black and white photography. It is a full semester course in which students will learn to use a 35 mm camera and develop film and print photographs in the traditional and creative form of image making. Other areas of study include quizzes, terminology, and written work. The photography department does have a limited collection of cameras for students to use, but ones brought from home are welcome.
COMMUNICATION – Photography uses its own unique sensory language for creating and communicating visual interpretive works.
THINKING – Photography provides opportunities to gain insight into the perspectives and experiences of people from a variety of times, place, and circumstances.
PERSONAL and SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY – Identity is explored, expressed, and impacted through photographic art experiences.
Photography provides creative experiences that can build community and nurture relationships with others.
Enhancement Fee: $25
Art Studio 11 teaches all aspects of foundational art. Students will make 2D and 3D artworks that provide an opportunity to communicate through art. Students will develop their knowledge of the elements and principles of art and design, and the expressive qualities of various materials through working with a range of media, processes, and techniques. Drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, and mixed media will be explored.
Students will demonstrate active engagement in creating artistic works and resolving creative challenges. In addition, student artists will maintain a sketchbook as idea development.
Enhancement Fee: $40
In this course students create projects from a variety of 3D media such as clay, wax, plaster, wood, stone, cardboard, and recycled materials. Students explore personal themes and ideas and find ways to create them in 3D space. Over the course of the semester, three- dimensional form is explored through a variety of materials with a focus on ceramic processes. Students will create three- dimensional (3D) artistic works using sensory inspiration, imagination, and inquiry. Student artists will maintain a sketchbook as idea development.
Enhancement Fee: $25
Studio Art 11 is designed for students who wish to pursue a special interest in drawing and painting. Students will be asked to develop skills and understanding in 2D art techniques through observation, memory, and imagination. This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to develop personal imagery in drawing and painting materials. Basic and advanced techniques will be taught using a variety of media including graphite, charcoal, pastel, collage, watercolor, mixed media, and acrylics. Describe and analyze, using discipline-specific language, how artists use materials, technologies, processes, and environments in 2D art making. Student artists will maintain a sketchbook as idea development.
(MDRTC11)
This is a senior, performance-based course where students demonstrate increasingly sophisticated application of dramatic elements, vocabulary, conventions, and skills. They are required to complete scene and character analyses and participate as directors and critics. The new curriculum core competencies require drama students to use creative processes to explore and create reason and reflect, communicate, and document, & connect & expand.
(MDFT-11)
This course looks to analyze and create moving pictures. Students will produce their own moving pictures in a variety of assignments and genres (from commercials to short films), learning to select and combine moving picture elements, techniques, technologies, and processes. Students will also learn how to film and use video editing software.
Students will also learn a brief history of film, and will watch a range of films in different genres for analysis.
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