Mission Hills High School offers a balanced, comprehensive, standards-based arts program. Courses are offered in dance, music, theater and visual art. We are a team of artists and student artists, committed to pursuing excellence in our fields and collaborating to provide meaningful experiences in the arts for the school community.
The arts:
- Enhance and balance the curriculum
- Provide students with opportunities to propose and solve problems
- Expand perceptual skills
- Celebrate the achievement of diverse cultures
- Provide students with the creative skills to be productive participants in today’s economy
The Visual and Performing Arts standards are grouped under the following strands:
Artistic Perception
What do I know?
Creative Expression
What can I create?
Historical and Cultural Context
How does it fit into culture and history?
Aesthetic Valuing
How do I feel about it?
Connections, relationships, application
How do I connect it to other subjects, to the world around me, to careers?
Courses in Visual and Performing Arts offered at Mission Hills High School
Dance
Dance 1
Dance 2
Dance Production
Music
Choir
Color Guard
Concert Band
Digital Music
Jazz Ensemble
Marching Band
Theater
Beginning Drama
Intermediate Drama
Drama Production
Technical Theater
Visual Art
A.P. Studio Art
A.P. Art History
Ceramics
Digital Photography
Drawing and Painting
Metalsmithing