Page 11 - Ontario Curriculum, Grades 9 to 12: Course Descriptions and Prerequisites, 2018

Integrated Arts and Exploring and Creating in the Arts
Integrated Arts, Grade 9 or 10, Open (ALC1O/ALC2O)
This course integrates two or more of the arts (dance, drama, media arts, music, and visual arts), giving students the opportunity to produce and present integrated art works created individually or collaboratively. Students will demonstrate innovation as they learn and apply concepts, styles, and conventions unique to the various arts and acquire skills that are transferable beyond the classroom. Students will use the creative process and responsible practices to explore solutions to integrated arts challenges.
Prerequisite: None
Exploring and Creating in the Arts, Grade 11 or 12, Open (AEA3O/AEA4O)
This course offers students the opportunity to explore connections between dance, drama, media arts, music, and/or visual arts. Students will use the creative process individually and/ or collaboratively to produce integrated art works that draw on various disciplines, and they will critically analyse art works and determine how interpreting these works affects their own development. Students will develop responsible practices that are transferable beyond the classroom. They will explore solutions to integrated arts challenges and discover that art is everywhere, influencing and reflecting society.
Prerequisite: Any Grade 9 or 10 arts course
Media Arts
Media Arts, Grade 10, Open (ASM2O)
This course enables students to create media art works by exploring new media, emerging technologies such as digital animation, and a variety of traditional art forms such as film, photography, video, and visual arts. Students will acquire communications skills that are transferable beyond the media arts classroom and develop an understanding of responsible practices related to the creative process. Students will develop the skills necessary to create and interpret media art works.
Prerequisite: None
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