WHEELER HIGH SCHOOL ' S
COURSE CATALOG
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Visual Arts
Course Name: Visual Art Comprehensive I Type of Course: Elective Course Available to: 9th- 12th grade
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course introduces art history, art criticism, aesthetic judgment, and studio production, emphasizes the ability to understand and use elements and principles of design through a variety of media, processes, and visual resources, and explores master artworks for historical and cultural significance.
Course Name: Visual Art Comprehensive I- STEAM Integration Type of Course: Elective Course Available to: 9th- 12th grade
Prerequisites: None
Description: VA Comp— STEAM Integration, specifically, also approaches artmaking through STEM( Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics)-based lenses. It is well integrated with concepts from mathematics, biology, the environmental sciences, and some engineering, yet it is still connected to art history, material processes, and the elements & principles of design. Students will develop their critical thinking skills alongside artistic and traditional research skills by engaging in the creative process, resulting in works art in drawing, painting, and sculpture.
Course Name: Visual Art Comprehensive II Type of Course: Elective Course Available to: 9th- 12th grade
Prerequisites: VA Comprehensive I( 80 %+)
Description: This course enhances level-one skills in art history, art criticism, aesthetic judgment, and studio production. Emphasizes and reinforces knowledge and application of the design elements and their relationship to the principles of design. Explores different two- and three-dimensional art media and processes. Investigates master artworks to increase awareness and to examine the role of art and the artist in past and contemporary societies.
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