Course Offerings

Welcome to our class site. This section will outline the Arts courses offered. Depending on any given timetable, Mr. Galang may teach any of the following courses:

Media Arts

Media Arts focuses on developing students’ creativity, artistic and technical skills, and theoretical knowledge. Students produce media artworks communicating ideas, feelings, and beliefs to specific audiences. This course also allows students to reflect on the social, cultural, and historical contexts of media art, which enhances their understanding of the world in which they live. Media arts incorporate materials, practices, tools, and skills from various arts disciplines, including dance, drama, music, and visual arts. Its elements are also drawn from contributing arts: for example, line, colour, and texture from visual arts; space, time, and energy from dance; rhythm (duration), harmony (pitch), and dynamics from music; and character, place, and tension from dramatic arts. The technologies and processes used and adapted to create media art may be traditional, including, but not limited to, photography, film, photocopy art, analog and electro-acoustic sound, classical animation, and video/television. The technologies and processes may also be digital: computer software, digital imaging and graphics, digital sound recording and sonic sculpture, two- and three-dimensional animation, multimedia production, holography, and web page design.

Media Arts Courses

Gr. 10 Media Arts – ASM2O1 (Open – Comprehensive)
This course enables students to create media artworks by exploring new media, emerging technologies such as digital animation, and various traditional art forms such as film, photography, video, and visual arts. Students will acquire transferable communication skills beyond the media arts classroom and develop an understanding of responsible practices related to the creative process. Students will develop the skills necessary to create and interpret media artworks.

This course will help students address the Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectation that they become effective communicators who use and integrate the Catholic faith tradition in the critical analysis of the arts, media, technology and information systems to enhance their quality of life.

Prerequisite: None

Gr. 10 Media Arts – ASM2OR (iRAP)

This course enables students to create media artworks by exploring new media, emerging technologies such as digital animation, and various traditional art forms such as film, photography, video, and visual arts. Students will acquire transferable communications skills beyond the media arts classroom and develop an understanding of responsible practices related to the creative process. Students will develop the skills necessary to create and interpret media artworks.

Prerequisite: Open to iRAP students only

Gr. 11 Media Arts – ASM3O1 (Open – Comprehensive)
This course enables students to create media artworks using available and emerging technologies such as computer animation, digital imaging, video, and various media. Students will explore the elements and principles of media arts, the connections between contemporary media artworks and traditional art forms, and the importance of using responsible practices when engaged in the creative process. Students will develop the skills necessary to create and interpret media artworks.

This course will help students address the Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectation that they become collaborative contributors who achieve excellence, originality, and integrity in their own work and support these qualities in the work of others.

Prerequisite: None

Gr. 11 Media Arts – ASM3M1 (College/University – Comprehensive)
This course focuses on developing media arts skills through producing artworks involving traditional and emerging technologies, tools, and techniques such as new media, computer animation, and web environments. Students will explore the evolution of media arts as an extension of traditional art forms, use the creative process to produce effective media artworks, and critically analyze the unique characteristics of this art form. Students will examine the role of media artists in shaping audience perceptions of identity, culture, and values.

Prerequisite: Gr. 10 Media Arts Open (ASM2O) OR Gr. 10 Media Arts Open iRAP (ASM2OR)

Gr. 11 Media Arts – ASM3MR (College/University – iRAP)

This course enables students to create media artworks using available and emerging technologies such as computer animation, digital imaging, video, and various media. Students will explore the elements and principles of media arts, the connections between contemporary media artworks and traditional art forms, and the importance of using responsible practices when engaged in the creative process. Students will develop the skills necessary to create and interpret media artworks.

Prerequisite: Gr. 10 Media Arts Open (ASM2O) OR Gr. 10 Media Arts Open iRAP (ASM2OR) OR Gr. 9 Visual Arts Open (AVI1OR) OR Gr. Visual Arts Open iRAP (AVI2OR)

Gr. 12 Media Arts – ASM4M1 (College/University – Comprehensive)
This course emphasizes the refinement of media arts skills through creating a thematic body of work by applying traditional and emerging technologies, tools, and techniques such as multimedia, computer animation, installation art, and performance art. Students will develop works expressing their views on contemporary issues and create portfolios suitable for career or postsecondary education applications. Students will critically analyze the role of media artists in shaping audience perceptions of identity, culture, and community values.

This course will help students address the Ontario Catholic Graduate Expectation that they become effective communicators who use and integrate the Catholic faith tradition in the critical analysis of the arts, media, technology and information systems to enhance their quality of life.

Prerequisite: Gr. 10 Media Arts (ASM2O) OR Gr. 11 Media Arts (ASM3O)

Gr. 12 Media Arts – ASM4MR (College/University – iRAP)

This course emphasizes the refinement of media arts skills through creating a thematic body of work by applying traditional and emerging technologies, tools, and techniques such as multimedia, computer animation, installation art, and performance art. Students will develop works expressing their views on contemporary issues and create portfolios suitable for career or postsecondary education applications. Students will critically analyze the role of media artists in shaping audience perceptions of identity, culture, and community values.

Prerequisite: Gr. 11 Mixed Media Arts (ASM3M) OR Gr. 11 Mixed Media iRAP (ASM3MR)

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Visual Arts

Visual arts include studio work and art appreciation. Visual literacy expands into a broader perception within the visual arts courses – turning seeing into vision, translating reality into symbols and connections, and enhancing all other learning experiences. Learning in, about, and through visual arts helps students use their imagination and make creative choices to communicate their ideas, observations, feelings, and values. Students create artworks that integrate the fundamental components of design known as elements (colour, form, line, shape, space, texture, and value). Students explore design principles (balance, contrast, emphasis, harmony, movement, proportion, rhythm and repetition, unity, and variety) and use them to arrange design elements to produce visual effects.

Gr. 11 Photography – AWQ3M1 (College/University – Comprehensive)
This course introduces each student to the basic concepts of traditional and digital photographic arts. With hands-on studio experience, students will develop their understanding of design and the evolution of photography as an art form. The students will be able to learn how to work with various subject matter and materials and study composition through photographic studio projects. Emphasis will be on demonstrating a personal artistic style and approach to photography while applying the elements and principles of art.

Prerequisite: Gr. 9 Visual Arts (AVI1O), Gr. 10 Visual Arts (AVI2O)

Gr. 12 Photography – AWQ4M1 (College/University – Comprehensive)
This course will focus on the refinement of skills and knowledge in photography. Students will analyze photographic art forms and increase their understanding of global changes in Western and Canadian art forms. Students will produce a portfolio highlighting their photography skills as a visual art form. Emphasis will be on demonstrating a personal style and approach to photography. Emphasis will also be placed on the different forms of photography, traditional and digital, through thematic work to reflect a mastery of technique and skill.

Prerequisite: Gr. 11 Photography (AWQ3M)