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SEQUENCE OF COURSES

Ninth grade students should be aware of the sequence of courses in both the music and visual arts areas. These are the various courses offered during a four-year program:

VISUAL ARTS COURSES 

900 INTRODUCTION TO VISUAL ART
This half-year (0.5 credit) course will give students an opportunity to explore the world of the visual arts. 
901 FUNDAMENTALS OF DRAWING
This half-year (0.5 credit) one- semester course is designed for students who want more opportunities to draw using a wide variety of materials, techniques, and subject matter. 
948 DRAWING AND PAINTING OIL/ACRYLIC 1
This intermediate level half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed for students who have successfully completed courses 900 and 901. 
949 DRAWING AND PAINTING WATER MEDIA 1
This intermediate level half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed for students who have successfully completed courses 900 and 901. 
950 DRAWING AND PAINTING WATER MEDIA 2
This advanced level half-year (0.5 credit) course provides highly-motivated students the opportunity to work at much greater depth with the concepts, techniques, and media (graphite, charcoal, conte crayon, pastels, tempera, transparent watercolor, and collage) used in Drawing and Painting in Water Media I. 
952 DESIGN AND CALLIGRAPHY
This half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed to expand the student’s skills in two-dimensional design and in calligraphy. 
953 CERAMICS 1
This half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed to give students basic knowledge and technical skills in ceramics. 
954 COMMERCIAL ART 1
This half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed to provide the student with basic knowledge of and skills in the area of commercial art, especially those elements necessary to create effective advertisements by using Macintosh computers. 
955 DRAWING AND PAINTING OIL/ACRYLIC 2
This advanced level half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed for students who have successfully completed course 948. 
956 COMMERCIAL ART 2
This half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed to put to practical use the knowledge and skills learned in Commercial Art I. 
957 CERAMICS 2
This half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed to expand the knowledge and skills learned in Ceramics I. 
961 UNIFIED ART EDUCATION
This half-year (0.5 credit) art elective offers a small number of artistically-minded students the opportunity to work in one-to-one peer relationships with special needs students in a comprehensive visual arts program. 
905 AP ART HISTORY
This full-year (1 credit) course is designed to be the equivalent of a college art history course. 
914 PHOTOGRAPHY
This half-year (0.5 credit) intermediate visual art course will serve as a beginning photography course. 
958 CERAMICS 3
This half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed to continue to expand the knowledge and skills learned in Ceramics II. 
959 PORTFOLIO DESIGN
This half-year (0.5 credit) course addresses three major concerns: (1) a sense of quality in the student’s work; (2) the student’s need for experience working in formal, technical, and expressive formats with concentration on a particular visual interest or problem; (3) the student’s need to expand and advance upon work completed in previous art classes.
960 CERAMICS 4
This half-year (0.5 credit) course is designed to continue to expand the knowledge and skills learned in Ceramics 3.
 

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