Year Long Elective Course:
This elective, full year visual art course challenges students to focus on
independent art themes.
Students will concentrate on design terms and apply them to art
skills in new projects and critiques. The skills, techniques, and styles of art will be
extended to complement the style and originality of individual students. Each project will allow students to integrate visual arts skills with academic themes.
Originality, effective communications, problem solving, critical thinking, social cooperation, self-discipline, and community/environmental issues will be involved in the lessons.
If a student is electing art for the second or third year, he/she will be encouraged to produce higher level and more in-depth art projects according to his/her abilities.
Essential Discipline Goals:
CRITICAL: To develop, through the visual arts, the ability to
perceive and respond to ideas and the environment.
HISTORICAL/CULTURAL: To develop an understanding of the visual arts as a
basic aspect of history and human experience.
PRODUCTION: To develop and organize knowledge and ideas for expression in the production of art.
AESTHETIC:To develop the ability to identify, analyze, and apply criteria for making visual aesthetic judgments.