English for Creative Arts Curriculum

In this course students will improve their language proficiencies in the areas of 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, and filmmaking. 

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

In this course students will improve their English language proficiencies in media analysis, design prototyping, character development, world-building, and 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.

Students gain further independence in their language abilities, strengthening their ability to communicate 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, and digital games. The course will also provide preparation and practice tests in anticipation of the Duolingo test required to advance to their next program of study.