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 […]
ART 201/202: Drawing
This course focuses on drawing as a means of visual inquiry. Students learn to see with an artist’s eye and to know what it is like to look at the world through that lens. Students learn about gesture, contour line, positive and negative space, visual space, shadow and light, composition, and perspective. They use these […]
ENG 500: College English
College-level reading and writing require flexibility, open-mindedness, discernment, and a willingness to learn along the way. This course is designed around those principles, and encourages students to discover new ways of finding and making meaning. Students plan, draft, and complete written compositions in response to readings and oral discourse. Students are expected to read critically, […]
ENG 300: Contemporary Literature
The story of the late 20th and 21st centuries is a story of increasing global connectivity with increasing social isolation, of social uprisings for inclusive freedom with the rise of authoritarianism, repressive theocracy, and international terrorism, and of massive technological progress with seemingly insurmountable climate and health crises. This course explores this story. Through the […]
ENG 110-ELL: Proficient Writing, Composition, & Expression
Cheshire Academy’s Writing, Composition, and Expression courses offer an intensive, context-based, genre-focused sequence of study in writing for academic purposes. These courses are for students whose home/comfort language is not English. Students focus on models of academic genres in all disciplines and develop an understanding of the purpose of each genre, how each genre is […]
ENG 100-ELL: Intermediate Writing, Composition, & Expression
Cheshire Academy’s Writing, Composition, and Expression courses offer an intensive, context-based, genre-focused sequence of study in writing for academic purposes. These courses are for students whose home/comfort language is not English. Students enhance grammatical, mechanical, and lexical control. The course focuses on improving writing styles such as memoirs, scientific articles, short stories, analytical responses, and […]
