Course Description: Lights! Camera! Action! Let’s explore the enchanting world of live theater and its fascinating relationship to the silver screen. In Theater, Cinema, and Film Production, you’ll learn the basics of lighting, sound, wardrobe, and camerawork while examining the magic that happens behind all the drama. Delve into the glamorous history of film and […]
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Course Description: Hobbits, Orcs, wizards, dashing knights, and powerful elves are all part of the magic created in J.R.R. Tolkien’s famously epic tale, The Lord of the Rings. For years, the vivid characters within this beloved story could exist only in the readers’ minds—until it was adapted into a movie that allowed fans to finally
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Course Description: Does the thought of speaking in front of people makes you break out in hives? Maybe you want tips on how to make that first great impression? In both cases, Public Speaking may be just what you need. In this class you will learn from famous orators, like Aristotle and Cicero, how to
Course Description: Since the beginning of time, people have gathered around fires to tell stories of angry gods, harrowing journeys, cunning animals, horrible beasts, and the mighty heroes who vanquished them. Mythology and folklore have provided a way for these colorful stories to spring to life for thousands of years. Mythology and Folklore: Legendary Tales
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Course Description: Are you always the first one to know what’s going on at school or in your town? Maybe your Facebook or Instagram accounts are the reliable place for others to find the latest breaking news? If so, you are just the kind of person every online, print, and broadcast news outlet is searching
Course Description: Vampires, ghosts, and werewolves have lived in our collective imagination since the 18th century, and they continue to influence the world of fiction even today. Gothic Literature: Monster Stories focuses on the major themes found in Gothic literature and demonstrates the techniques writers use to produce a thrilling psychological experience for the reader.
Course Description: This course introduces learners to elements of literature from classic to modern times using forms such as short stories, novels, poetry, drama, and essays. Through reading, learners will develop skills in literary analysis and interpretation. Tips for strengthening vocabulary, grammar, and mechanics will be given. Lessons concerning writing emphasize composition skills. Learners will
Course Description: In this course, students will practice skills that writers use in generating effective topics, and finding the form of writing that best suits a particular topic. Create effective pieces of creative writing, appealing to readers, by demonstrating the five strategies used by successful authors: images, energy, tension, pattern, and insight. Understand and demonstrate
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Course Description: In this course, students will explore a range of creative writing genres, fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama and multimedia writing. Students will study examples of writing through classic and contemporary selections and will apply that knowledge and understanding to their writing. In addition, students will develop and intimate understanding of the writing process
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Course Description: Communications reinforces the development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills and knowledge taught in English 9. The course explores in-depth the principles, mechanics, techniques, tools, processes, and aesthetics of successful written and spoken communication for both the professional and academic world at the individual, small group, and public communication levels. This course
