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MCEETYA AND CULTURAL MINISTER’S COUNCIL 2007

Study in the Creative Arts provides students with strong discipline based knowledge and fundamental skills, creative expertise, learning mindset and critical capabilities for the future world. Creative Arts students experience and develop the complex skills required to create and test ideas, generate creative works with confidence, shape inquiry and critically evaluate and reflect on what they do. Study in the Creative Arts prepares students to be significant producers and informed consumers of culture.

At Merewether High School students learn to appreciate, compose, listen, create, design, analyse, engage and perform. Each subject within CAPA has its own unique knowledge and skills, elements and concepts as well as a capacity to inspire and enrich lives through a well-rounded educational program. Students study 100 hours of both music and visual arts during Years 7 and 8. An opportunity to further pursue students’ areas of interest and strength to highlight their ability in a chosen area in Years 9,10,11 and 12 through elective choices in Drama, Music, Photography and Digital Media and Visual Arts.

Creative & Performing Arts at Merewether High School

Drama

The study of drama enables young people to develop an interest in and enjoyment of investigating and enacting a wide range of theatrical forms, styles and acting methods. Through critical reflection and acquiring understanding, knowledge and skills, students respond to the ideas and dramatic works of others by creatively and collaboratively developing their own ideas into dramatic action for performance. The Stage 6 course provides students with the opportunity to engage in collaborative and individual experiences to develop skills in interpretation, communication, performance and critical analysis. Students engage with the cultural traditions and social contexts of drama and theatre through critical study and experiences in practical workshop activities and performances.

Music

The study of music’s forms, styles and ideas enables young people to develop an interest in appreciation and enjoyment of music. Through critical reflection and acquiring understanding, knowledge and skills, students respond by creatively developing their own musical ideas, compositions and performances. Stage 6 Music students are provided with the opportunity to study the concepts of music through the learning experiences of performance, composition, musicology and aural within the context of a range of styles, periods and genres. Students nominate three electives made up of any combination of performance, composition and/or musicology which reflect the three topics studied in the HSC course.

Photography and Digital Media

Photographic and digital media powerfully communicates ideas, identity, values and culture through images. The study of photographic and digital media enables young people to develop an interest in and enjoyment of investigating the rapidly evolving ideas, practices and technologies of this art form. Through critical reflection and acquiring understanding, knowledge and skills, students respond to the ideas, art and arts practice of others, through creatively developing their own ideas and photographic and digital artworks.

Visual Arts

The study of visual arts enables young people to develop an interest in and enjoyment of investigating the world through the ideas, aesthetic and contexts of artists and their work in a broad range of forms, media and styles. Through critical reflection and acquiring understanding, knowledge and skills, students respond by creatively developing their own ideas and artworks in 2D, 3D and or 4D forms. The HSC course provides students with the opportunity to develop their own artworks, culminating in a 'Body of Work' in year 12. Students engage in critical and historical study of the artworld to investigate artists, artworks, worlds and audiences from a range of cultural, political, historical and social perspectives and use these to inform their own artmaking practices.

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