Maitland Grossmann High School

Quality Education in a Caring Learning Community

Telephone02 4934 2066

Emailmaitgross-h.school@det.nsw.edu.au

Courses

Year 11 and 12

VISUAL ARTS

Visual Arts encourages students to express themselves in visual form as well as written form. Students learn about artmaking and learn how to make art in a variety of forms, culminating in the development of a 'body of work' in the HSC course.  Students critically and historically investigate the practice of artists, critics and historians.

In the Preliminary Course students develop skills in a variety of expressive forms such as: Document forms, Collection of Works, Drawing, Painting, Photomedia, Printmaking, Textiles and Fibre, Graphic design, Digital Imagery, Designed Objects, Sculpture, Ceramics, Time-based forms (Film) and in areas of interest to individual students.

In the HSC Course students refine their new skills and use them to develop a Body of Work with conceptual strength. The course works on a basic 50% practical and 50% theory basis. 

MUSIC

In both the Preliminary and HSC Courses students will gain a wide experience in 

  • Performance, 
  • Composition, 
  • Musicology and 
  • Listening 

through the study of the concepts of music - duration, pitch, tone colour, dynamics and expressive techniques, tempo, performing media.

Students select 3 topics for study in Year 11 and 3 in Year 12. Topics range from classical to Pop, Jazz and Rock.

All students are required to perform in front of others at times during the course and the HSC includes a practical component for all students.

DRAMA

Students studying Drama will be involved in the process of Making, Performing and a Critical Study through both individual and group experiences.

In the Preliminary course the following elements are covered:

  • Improvisation
  • Playbuilding
  • Acting
  • Elements of Production in Performance
  • Theatrical Traditions
  • Performance Styles
 
The HSC Course involves 
  • Two theoretical components
  • Two Practical components
Students must present a 
  • Group Performance which involves creating a piece of original theatre.
  • an Individual Project where they demonstrate expertise in a particular area like Critical Analysis, Design, Performance, Script Writing or Video Drama
 

DANCE

In this course students are able to study dance as a unique art form in which the body is the instrument for non-verbal communication and expression.

it is organised around three core components of
  • Performance
  • Composition
  • Appreciation
 
There is a lot of physical and practical work in this course and a solid theoretical background is necessary. 

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