List of 22 items.

• Drawing & Design

  • 9th-grade full-year course
  • 9th-graders are required to take Drawing & Design, Music Fundamentals, or Theater Workshop. 9th-graders may also audition for placement in an advanced instrumental ensemble.
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Develop your skills and express your ideas and observations in visual media as you become fluent in the basic elements of visual experience: light, value, contour, mass, texture, composition, and color.

• Music Fundamentals

  • 9th-grade full-year course
  • 9th-graders are required to take Drawing & Design, Music Fundamentals, or Theater Workshop. 9th-graders may also audition for placement in an advanced instrumental ensemble.
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Grow your music-reading skills and build upon any previous musical experience. You will hone rhythmic skills through percussion and drumming and build your pitch and music performance skills through voice, keyboard, guitar, and other instruments.

• Theater Workshop

  • 9th-grade full-year course
  • 9th-graders are required to take Drawing & Design, Music Fundamentals, or Theater Workshop. 9th-graders may also audition for placement in an advanced instrumental ensemble.
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Explore the dramatic arts with an emphasis on basic acting technique through text work and improvisation. You will focus on imaginative play, proper vocal production, and physical acting as you emphasize character development, text analysis, collaboration, and building self- confidence.

• Digital Filmmaking

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Examine the history and major elements of filmmaking as you develop your DSLR camera, workflow, digital editing, screenwriting and formatting, story structure, character development, acting, production, cinematography, and sound design skills through project assignments.

• Advanced Drawing & Design

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Apply design thinking processes to both commercial and fine art as explore design issues such as user needs and empathy, prototyping, revision, and teamwork. After a variety of teacher-directed projects, you will complete a self-directed project.

• Graphic Design

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Build fluency in Adobe Creative Suite with an emphasis on graphic design including theory, practice, and technology, including principles of color, resolution, pixels, vectors, image enhancement, layout, visual organization, visual hierarchy, and typography.

• Advanced Graphic Design

  • 11th- or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course has one or more prerequisites
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Continue your examination of the elements of design, spatial relationships, typography and imagery as they apply to practical visual solutions for print and web applications.

• Painting

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  You’ll explore form and content through the painting medium. You will tackle a series of challenges that develop your technical skills, then enjoy total freedom to develop your own iconography.

• Advanced Painting

  • 11th- or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course has one or more prerequisites
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Create a body of related work, write and revise an artist statement, conduct research, explore exhibition venues, and present your work to audiences in and outside the classroom.

• Photography

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Explore the history of photography with a focus on personal expression and active observation as you discover the visual language of photographs and the themes and meanings they create.

• Advanced Photography

  • 11th- or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course has one or more prerequisites
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Nurture your creativity, expand your visual literacy, and build advanced skills in the photographic arts as you study the history of the medium and its elements, the language of poetic imagery, multiple genres and themes, and portfolio building.

• Printmaking

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Explore a variety of media and techniques including linoleum, wood block, transfer techniques, and screen printing as you focus on process and technique.

• Advanced Printmaking

  • 11th- or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course has one or more prerequisites
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Further your editioning skills and the complexity of your printmaking techniques, including multiple plate and color screen printing through in-depth studio experience.

• Sculpture

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Translate two-dimensional designs into functional three-dimensional work through hands-on projects that explore the manipulation of form, strategies for idea generation, and visual storytelling.

• Advanced Studio Art

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course has one or more prerequisites
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Prepare a portfolio for college entry. You will focus on technique and concept development through serious dialogue and critique.

• Music Production

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course has one or more prerequisites
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Compose, notate, and create audio recordings using digital sound-synthesis and recording equipment. You will compile a portfolio of polished pieces.

• Advanced Music Production

  • 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course has one or more prerequisites
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Develop more complex and polished compositions using acoustic and electronic sources and work in a variety of environments as you further develop microphone techniques, sampling, editing, mixing and mastering.

• Advanced Ensemble: Vocal

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course requires an audition
  • This course may be repeated
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Focus on a wide array of musical genres, from classical to Broadway to modern popular, as you learn, rehearse, and perform solo and ensemble selections.

• Advanced Ensemble: Instrumental

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course requires an audition
  • This course may be repeated
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Arrange and perform advanced literature from a variety of idioms to include: classical, modern jazz, Dixieland, blues, swing, salsa, Afro-Cuban, rhythm & blues, rock, and hip-hop.

• Advanced Theater Production

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Master all matters of theatrical production except the acting in this behind-the-scenes course that covers stage lighting design, sound, some history of theater and terminology, stage management, and production.

• Advanced Theater Workshop

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Expand your acting skills with further concentration on physical acting and voice and speech techniques, including dialects. You will delve into text analysis, character development, and improvisation.

• AP Music Theory

  • 10th-, 11th-, or 12th-grade full-year academic elective
  • This course has one or more prerequisites
  • Two courses in Visual & Performing Arts are required for graduation

  Deepen your awareness of harmonic, rhythmic, and textural elements in composing music of diverse styles and genres. You will cover much of the AP music curriculum in a project-based format, exploring voice-leading, chord-progressions, harmonizing melodies and basslines, and arranging music for different musical instruments.