人文学科项目

Humanities English invites students to develop their reading, writing, and speaking skills in a collaborative environment as they respond to the stories that shape contemporary and canonical literature. This course builds verbal ability through the creative process in which finished work results from a commitment to the phases of writing as an art, 修辞作为一种技巧. Understanding grammatical rules and expanding vocabulary become necessary as freedom and discipline combine to transform enthusiastic practice into polished performance. 这门课程的严谨性在于此, in part, on encounters with challenging literary texts of various genres and on engagement with alternative media. Close examination and reading provide for comprehension and application of the critical questions connecting the various Humanities disciplines. Through interdisciplinary study and experience — both analytical and sensory — students learn to respond skillfully and authentically to conflicting individual and social values.

This course is an exciting and accessible starting point for students who wish to learn the fundamental skills and expressive potential of problem-solving design, 根据观察得出结论, color theory, collage, mixed media, and painting. This course provides students with a rigorous grounding in seeing, composition, 以及通过图像表达思想. 艺术项目相信任何人, 在适当的指导下, can learn to successfully manipulate a wide range of media in the creation of meaningful visual images. Every student will be taught to understand and compose with line, value, shape, form, space, color, and light. Emphasis will be placed on how best to edit and arrange one’s image creation and subject matter. This course will combine pertinent design and fine art topics with a range of media and subject matter. Students are encouraged to be inventive and expressive with newly acquired knowledge. They will combine ideas from Humanities disciplines and art history in the making of imaginative images, offering a personal response to their learning experience. 在充满挑战的工作室氛围中, 鼓励, and support, students will learn how to confidently create and critique artwork. 每个标记期, a major assignment in art will be closely linked to those in English, 哲学与宗教, and history.

The history component of lower mid Humanities stuides themes in United States history is linked to English, 哲学与宗教, and the arts. 我们将检查时间段c. 1776年至今, beginning with the foundation of republican government in the United States and ending with civil rights in the 21st century. Students will build upon the skills developed in the prep year and focus on writing analytical essays, 阅读对事件的解释, rooting historical arguments into the context of scholarship, 整合统计数据, charts, and non-verbal evidence in constructing historical arguments. The course will include particular emphasis on research skills and culminate with a major research project. Students will be expected and encouraged to participate fully throughout the course by careful reading, thinking, 和讨论.

Building on the skills established in the prep theatre course, lower mids focus on developing an individual acting process. In the first few weeks of the course students discuss and practice three traits that form the foundation of the course: discipline, awareness, 和创造力. In the first semester, the focus is on individual acting. Students use a variety of exercises to explore script analysis, movement, voice, 性格发展, 试镜策略. 评估包括十四行诗背诵, mock audition, 观察项目, and presentations on playwrights from the Enlightenment through Realism. The culminating activity is the Arts Salon, which consists of a collection of monologues. The second semester challenges students to continue honing individual skills while also expanding to partner and scene acting. They investigate status, relationship, staging, and strategies for effective collaboration. 评估包括对话录, 第二次模拟试镜, presentations on modern and contemporary playwrights, a journal, 以及最后艺术沙龙的一小段场景. As the course embraces a practical approach to help students devise personally effective acting processes, students will be required to audition for some of the HDA productions throughout the school year.