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In this course, students will improve their language proficiencies and their critical thinking, concept development, image composition, and storytelling skills. They will learn to apply language skills, aesthetic principles, and industry knowledge to the production and presentation of photography, storytelling, and film projects. Topics include teambuilding, concept development, lens-based media, storytelling & genre, storyboarding, & filmmaking.

This industry-focused English course will build student’s confidence, and their command of English by developing the language, fluency, and communication skills necessary to communicate creative ideas, discuss and analyze media, work in teams, pitch ideas, and deliver project and presentations. Furthers the curriculum taught in Creative Arts Fundamentals 1 through discussions, presentations, writing and speaking challenges, and through exercises from National Geographic’s Grammar in Context 3 textbook.

In this course, students will improve their English language proficiencies in critical thinking, design prototyping, character development, world-building, & interactive experiences, and apply these language skills in the production of a digital product design, simple animation, and an online game. Topics include user-centered design, the progression of animation from early forms to modern 3D films, game mechanics, and level design.

This course takes students’ English language skills to the next level to gain further independence in their language abilities. Students will continue to develop strong communication skills that will help them describe creative ideas with accuracy and fluency. They will progress to more complex grammar in their textbooks and develop their reading and listening skills with more challenging texts and media about design thinking, animation, & digital games.