Creative Arts Cluster
Creative Arts 110 - prerequisite: students should have successfully completed the 9/10 block of Music and Visual Art
Creative Arts is a challenging new course that will guide students to a deeper understanding and appreciation of the arts in all disciplines, including visual art, music, theatre, and dance. Previous courses are not required but previous knowledge may enhance understanding as the focus is on critique rather than creation of content. Contemporary, often challenging, and conceptual works will be studied to highlight the communicative power of the arts through art activism, collaboration, and community engagement. The arts have the capacity to make us feel, to make us question, to make us act, and to bring us together. They enrich our human experience.
A poster explaining the course.
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Dramatic Arts 110
Dramatic Arts 110 is an introductory course designed for any student interested in developing skills related to creativity, performance, and production. This performance-based course is highly participatory, requiring students to work independently as well as collaboratively in small groups and large ensembles. Students will be exposed to a wide range of dramatic conventions and styles for the purposes of creating, analyzing, conducting research, and performing. A wide variety of challenges and opportunities that require creative and higher-order thinking encourage students to develop dramatic skills.
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Digital Production 120
This performance-based course will give students the opportunity to apply skills in digital media to create their own work in video, audio, and photography. Influential photographers and filmmakers will be explored as well as the craft of creating effective work, including cinematography, storytelling, and editing. Students will demonstrate their learning through a variety of projects requiring the application of digital skills and technology.
Graphic Art and Design 110 - prerequisite: Visual Arts 10
Graphic Design explores the realm of visual communication. Students will learn strategies to create and decode effective designs including signs, symbols, and logos. The content covered includes the elements and principles of design, intensive colour theory, composition and layout, poster design, music graphics, information graphics, and data visualization. This course can provide a valuable foundation for students interested in pursuing other design fields such as industrial, interior, automotive, architecture, fashion, etc. Students will work with a combination of hand-drawn and digitally produced designs, as technology and materials permit.
Media Studies 120
Media Studies is a literacy-based course through which students will develop critical skills to analyze the barrage of media messages in their own world. Examples are gathered from current events, advertising, television and film, and social media. In an environment wrought with misinformation, students are encouraged to question, analyze, and challenge everything. The impact of media on society is a constant undercurrent throughout the course, where students will develop the tools necessary to decode, understand and create their own media messages.
Music - General
For music lovers who are not sure about instrument based classes.
Music - Band
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Music - Guitar
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Music - Keyboard
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Music - Vocal
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Visual Arts 10
This program contributes to a multi-disciplinary, interrelated school curriculum. While being engaged in art activities, students learn more than art content and skills. As with any creative endeavour, many thought processes, learning strategies, and ways of expression are refined and transferred to other aspects of life. Like other art forms, visual art offers unique experiences from which a better understanding of the world can emerge. Students who are engaged in such a program have the opportunity to develop a comprehensive awareness, appreciation, and understanding of personal life experiences and events