FOUNDATIONS

Arts Infused Foundations

The Arts Foundations course focuses on the creative process and production.  The class is designed to engage you in an intensive collaborative process that will create a multi-disciplined arts event.  You will work with professionals from various artistic disciplines to create original works of visual and performing art.  You will explore what it means to be an artist, study the foundations of art, develop your critiquing skills, and create a variety of artistic works.  The class will build on your individual artistic interests.

Grade: All students new to the program                       Terms: 2

ENGLISH

Arts Infused English 9                                                                    NCAA approved

This course is designed to introduce students to a thematic survey of our literary, historical, cultural and social heritage using historical texts, original documents, short stories, essays, poems, novels, and drama. It will provide an interdisciplinary learning environment where students will use shared inquiry, visual art, literary art, and performance in the process of learning about their relationship to their literary, historical and cultural heritage and how people govern themselves.

This course is taken concurrently with Arts Infused American Experience 9.

Grade: 9                        Terms: 2  

Arts Infused American Literature                                                          NCAA approved

This course is designed to introduce student to a thematic survey of our literary, historical, cultural and social heritage using historical texts, original documents, short stories, essays, poetry, novels and drama.  This course will provide an interdisciplinary learning environment where students use shared inquiry, arts and performance in learning about themselves and their relationship to their American literary, historical and cultural heritage.  This course meets the same state academic standard and core outcomes as American Literature.  This course is taken concurrently with Arts Infused American History 10.

Grade: 10          Terms: 2

Arts Infused World Literature 11                                                          NCAA approved

This course is designed to survey the stories, ideas, and cultures of the world using short essays, stories, poems, novels, and drama. Students will use the inquiry process and artistic performance to learn about themselves and their relationship to other cultures.  Four key themes will structure the course:  1.) the Earliest Stories; 2.) Injustice; 3.) Ideology and Philosophy; 4.) Taking Perspective.

This course taken concurrently with Arts Infused World Studies/ Social Studies 11

         Grade: 11            Terms: 2  

SCIENCE

Arts Infused Introductory Science 1 (Physics) - 9^th grade                         NCAA approved

Arts Introductory Physics is the first science course in a 3-year sequence for students in the Arts Magnet program.  Topics will include the physical science concepts of motion, energy, waves, sound, light, optics, electricity and magnetism.  These topics will be infused with various arts applications where appropriate.    Connections between the scientific process and the creative design process will be emphasized. 

Grade 9            Terms: 2

Arts Infused Science 2 (Chemistry) - 10^th grade                            NCAA approved

Arts Chemistry is the second course in a 3-year sequence for students in the Art Magnet program.  This course in science will focus on the chemistry topics of physical and chemical properties, atomic theory, chemical reactions, thermodynamics, kinetic theory of gases, solution chemistry, and equilibrium.  These topics will be infused with various art applications.  The process of creative design will be emphasized. 

Grade 10          Terms: 2

Arts Infused Biology - 11^th grade                                                  NCAA approved

This course is structured around the Minnesota Academic Science Standards, primarily Life Science, but including some of the History and Nature of Science strand as well.  While the course may take on many themes; such as methods, process, cycles, change, relationships, responsibility, and ethics, its primary goal is to encourage students to think knowledgeably, thoughtfully, and critically about observations, data, and scientific discoveries and theories.  Learning activities are designed specifically to give students opportunities for inquiry, discovery and problem solving.  Students will have many opportunities to express themselves artistically, whether through exploration for knowledge or displaying what they've already learned with drama, drawing, creative writing, and model design and construction, as well as oral presentations.     

Prerequisites:  Arts Infused Science 1 (9^th grade) and Arts Infused Science 2 (10^th grade)

Grade: 11                     Terms: 2

SOCIAL STUDIES

Arts Infused American Experience 9                                               NCAA approved

Students are exposed to the responsibilities citizens share in a democratic society.  Students will investigate the political roots of our country and also current political and social issues.  National, state, local government and the 3 branches of government will also be covered.  .  The teachers provide an interdisciplinary learning environment where students will use shared inquiry, arts, and performance in the process of learning about themselves and their relationship to their American political, historical and cultural heritage.  The course includes equal state academic standards and core outcomes as American Experience 9.

This course is taken concurrently with Arts Infused English 9

Grade 9            Terms: 2

Arts Infused American History 10                                                  NCAA approved

Students explore their country's heritage with particular attention to our nation's great events, and to the people who experienced those moments.  Students will also apply basic social studies skills, such as the reading of charts, graphs, and maps.  The second half of the course is devoted to the United States, its' people and government, since 1900.  The teachers provide an interdisciplinary learning environment where students will use shared inquiry, arts, and performance in the process of learning about themselves and their relationship to their American political, historical and cultural heritage.  The course includes equal state academic standards and core outcomes as American History 10. 

This course is taken concurrently with Arts Infused American Literature/ English 10.

Grade 10          Terms: 2

Arts Infused World Studies 11                                                        NCAA approved

This course is designed to introduce students to different places and time periods in the world through history, geography, and culture.   A variety of artistic skills will be addressed by studying various art pieces in history and examining the cultural aspects of the places of interest.  Performances and artists in residence will also be used as available during each term.  Topics for term one include  Early Civilizations, Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, and the Middle East (past and present).  Topics for term two include Genocide and the Holocaust, Africa, India and China, and Latin America.

This course is taken concurrently with Arts Infused World Literature/ English 11

               Grade 11       Terms: 2