Fine Arts
Department Chair: Dottie Lopez
d.lopez@laschools.net
Department Chair: Dottie Lopez
d.lopez@laschools.net
Students must complete 0.5 credit in Fine Arts. Please note that students with no foreign language credit planning to attend NMSU may substitute one year of Visual or Performing Art credit. Many schools, including University of California schools, require one full year of a Visual or Performing Art (two semester of the same subject; however, they do not have to be completed within the same school year).
The following courses fulfill the Fine Arts requirement:
2-D/3-D Design
Band
Ceramics
Color Guard
Choir
Dance
Digital Art
Digital Music/Audio Production
Fine Arts
Jazz Ensemble
Lighting, Set and Sound Design
Orchestra
Photography
Stagecraft
Studio Art
Symphonic Strings
Video Productions (description under Technology)
Wind Ensemble
Students must also complete .5 credit in a Practical Art. All courses listed in the College and Careers Technology Department, the Fine Arts Department and the Special Programs Department fulfill the practical arts requirement. Yearbook, an English elective, also fulfills the practical arts requirement.