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This course entails the study of concepts of web site design and maintenance using HTML and software such as Dreamweaver, or Frontpage. This course also covers text styles, images, Web-based database access concepts using MySQL or other relational databases. Students encounter an introduction to PHP, Javascript, and relational database concepts.
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What makes great music? What is artistry, and how can a deeper understanding of artistry across musical styles help us to live deeper, more reflective lives? This course introduces students to great music across genres with a focus on classical, jazz, rock, and hip hop. We will study the artistry of famous composers like Mozart and Beethoven as well as contemporary icons like the Beatles, Taylor Swift, and Kendrick Lamar. Across these examples, we will attain insight into how great music expands our knowledge of the world, our creativity, our relationships with others, and our faith.
This course will study the earliest roots of the followers of Christ and our shared Jewish heritage into the development of Roman Catholicism. Emphasis will be placed on the movement, expansion, heritage, mission and statement of beliefs. Its focus will center on significant models of the Church as a community of believers. The teacher will provide opportunities for prayer, reflection, praxis, and liturgical involvement.
Introduction of drawing techniques and use of drawing pencils along with a review of the Elements of Art and the Principles of Design. Students will be taught how to use line, shape, value and compositional strategies to create drawings from observation. A variety of subjects will be covered, some of which might be still life, portraits, figure drawings, landscapes, and interiors. A variety of materials will be used. Drawing from observation is fundamental in the creation of art. The ability to alter, abstract, or change what is observed is critical and necessary for the visual communication of ideas. Visual perception is developed using technical and analytical skills necessary for rendering observed reality.
