Fine Arts
Trinity High School is a scholastic community strongly committed to arts education. The Fine Arts Curriculum emphasizes contemporary artistic production and processes, including the integration of new technologies, alongside traditional modes of artistic theory and practice. Trinity students have the opportunity to uniquely express their creativity through an extensive offering of course work in visual arts, dance, music, and theatre.
• A complete four-year college preparatory visual arts curriculum is available as well as our International Baccalaureate two-year program in art and design.
• Students wishing to pursue Fine Arts at the university level are offered the opportunity to build their portfolio with art faculty mentors.
• Trinity’s Art Gallery Exhibitions give students the opportunity to curate student shows.
• Trinity student artists are consistently recognized and awarded the highest honors for their art at the Regional Scholarship Achievement Awards.
Students are required to earn 1/2 credit in the Fine Arts and an additional 1.0 credit in either Fine Arts or Business Education, or some combination of the two. Students must take Art Foundations as a prerequisite to all other art courses.
Visual Arts
Course Title |
Grade Level |
Duration/
|
| Art Foundations (required for all) | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Drawing I | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Drawing II | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Painting I | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Painting II | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Sculpture I | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Sculpture II | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Digital Design I | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Digital Design II | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Warhol and Beyond | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Ceramics | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Non-Western Art and Culture | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Printmaking | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Advanced Studio | 12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| IB Art and Design I, II | 11 and 12 | 4 blocks over 2 years / 2 credits |
| IB Art and Design Seminar | 12 | 1 block / .25 credit |
Performing Arts
Course Title |
Grade Level |
Duration/
|
| Bel Coro (Beautiful Choir) | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Advanced Bel Coro | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| A Capella Choir | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .25 credit |
| Le Ragazze (The Girls) | 11-12 | 1 block / .25 credit |
| La Trinita’ (Trinity Choir) | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .25 credit |
| Introduction to Drama | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Theatre Stagecraft | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Acting | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Advanced Acting | 11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Musical Theatre | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Introduction to Dance | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Dance I | 9-10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Improvisation for the Theatre | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Forensics | 11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Shakespeare and the Stage | 10-11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| Theatre and Leadership | 11-12 | 1 block / .5 credit |
| IB Film Study | 11 and 12 | 3 blocks over 2 years / 1.5 credits |