MUS 211/212: Music Fundamentals
In this course, students gain an understanding of the core fundamentals of music, including the basic elements of pitch, rhythm, notation, scale structure, tonality, intervals, chords, melody, harmony, and musical terminology and score reading. Students will apply these concepts to analyzing various examples of music, creating original music, and performing various styles of music. The […]
MUS 201/202: Music Skills & Performance
The study of music is the study of craftsmanship in which students learn to appreciate the creation of good work. It is one of the best ways of developing the ability to think creatively and to use our imaginations to see the world in new ways. In this course, students improve their technique, write songs, […]
ART 410: Art Major
PLACEMENT IN THIS COURSE REQUIRES APPROVAL BY THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR. This honors-level course, requiring department recommendation, is where the most dedicated art students pursue their passion of making and expressing meaning through art. The artistic process is the core of this class, with an intense focus on the ways in which editing, refining, revising, and […]
ART 400-IB: Visual Arts HL1/HL2
PLACEMENT IN THIS COURSE REQUIRES APPROVAL BY THE DEPARTMENT CHAIR/IB COORDINATOR. This course engages students in a wholly creative experience of the path artists embrace as a vital part of the creative process. Each student discovers the artist within and develops a body of work that is both personal and relevant to the current times […]
ART 300-IB: Visual Arts SL1/SL2
This course engages students in a wholly creative experience of the path artists embrace as a vital part of the creative process. Each student discovers the artist within and develops a body of work that is both personal and relevant to the current times in which we live. Each student keeps their thoughts and ideas […]
ART 251/252: Digital Imaging
Digital imaging is a truly 21st-century way of looking closely at the world and then representing it in terms of aesthetics and truth. In this course, students create work that reveals their spirit and vision. Students develop their own style, mode of expression, and artistic vision. Students are introduced to digital imaging technology and software. […]
ART 241/242: Photography
Artists see the world differently than one another. The same thing, photographed by different people, can yield vastly different effects and meanings. This course teaches students how to develop their artistic visions and to notice the ways in which the visual elements of the world around them interact to affect our perceptions and our lives. […]
ART 231/232: Printmaking
In this course, students are exposed to a variety of printing processes such as monoprint, lithography, transfer, woodcut, linoleum, and dry point. With these methods, students learn to mix various elements to achieve the correct viscosity of ink, to apply just the right amount of ink to whatever surface they are working on, and to […]
ART 221/222: Ceramics
This course is about literally making meaning. Physical sculpture, in the form of ceramics, is one of the oldest and most powerfully enduring forms of human expression there is. This course opens students’ minds to the ways in which working in a physical medium can create meaning and achieve purpose. This course consists of hand, […]
ART 211/212: Painting
In this course, students learn to accurately discern relationships of shape, form, color, and value, and to interpret this information through various paint media. Students discover a painting’s potential as a medium of communication and creative visual expression. Students explore various approaches to the use of watercolor, acrylic, and tempera paint. Students develop disciplined technical […]
