It is helpful if students have motor skills to manipulate materials and adequate visual ability to perceive images, but accommodations will be made for students with impairments. Liberal Ed Group D . Appropriate course for entering freshmen or transition students with or without prior art courses. To foster dialogue and to examine different artistic perspectives, students work within a common thematic framework that is the focus of the entire quarter.
Themes vary from quarter to quarter.
Each of these themes is represented in art forms that span many cultures, expressive purposes, and social needs. The themes are frameworks for the exploration of craftsmanship, aesthetics, audience, self-expression and social expression. Within this thematic structure, students make individual and group choices about aesthetic form, function, meaning, materials and techniques. Music, dance and theater may be incorporated into the focus. Develop artistic ideas collaboratively.