GRADE:Fun with Fine Arts/Humanities
MATERIALS:
| Number Correct | 14-16 | 12-13 | 10-11 | 0-9 |
| Grade | Excellent | Good | Okay | Poor |
| Percent | 88-100% | 75% | 62.5% | Below 60% |
FINE ARTS/HUMANITIES
CAREER CLUSTER
Careers in fine arts and humanities involve performing arts, visual arts, liberal arts, and journalism and media arts. It is the creative and entertainment branch of learning and careers. It is art, music, drama, language and social studies. Reading about or studying how society works and the interaction of individuals or groups of people is very interesting to these people as well as sharing ideas with others. They can get along with a variety of people. Artists draw, paint, sculpt, create, photograph and design in all kinds of mediums. Performers act, dance, and, speak, demonstrate and play musical instruments on-stage, in movies, in videos, on TV and in many other places. Writers write books, plays, stories and poetry. They research, write and edit newspaper and magazine articles and columns. Surrounding these artists, performers and writers are all kinds of support personnel helping to get the job done – they assist, sell, research, direct, display, process, repair, create, analyze, engineer and guide the activities of these creative people.
Performing
Arts (Music, Theater, Dance):
A focus on MUSIC
provides preparation for careers in music education, performance, composition,
church music, instrument making and repair, music therapy, music publishing,
and in the radio, TV, film and recording industries. The THEATER focus
provides preparation for careers in theater education, acting, play writing,
design and production, directing, theater history, administration and management.
The DANCE focus
provides preparation for careers in dance education, performance, creation,
history, preservation, production and administration/management.
· Sample
Career Options: Professional: Music – Music Educator, Private
Studio Teacher, Minister of Music, Composer,
Instrumentalist,
Conductor, Vocalist, Publisher, Editor, Music Director, Copyright Administrator,
Critic, Tour Manager, Music Librarian; Theater – Teacher, Script Writer,
Screenplay Writer, Actor/Actress, Director, Technical Director, Scene Designer,
Art Director, Costume Designer, Theater Historian, Critic; Dance –
Teacher, Dancer, Dance Historian, Dance Archivist, Dance Therapist, Choreographer,
Administrator/Manager Skilled: Music – Orchestrator, Copyist,
Instrument Repair Specialist, Piano Tuner, Organ Tuner, Recreation Specialist,
Instrumentalist, Vocalist, Accompanist, Music Typesetter, Sound Mixer, Music
License Administrator, Record Promoter, Assistant Recording Engineer;
Theater – Scenario Writer, Continuity Writer, Actor/Actress, Clown,
Comedian, Magician, Broadcast Announcer or Specialized Reporter, Assistant
Stage Manager, Stage Carpenter, Costumer, Master Sound Technician, Computer
Effects Designer, Theater Manage, Talent Agent, Artist-in-Residence;
Dance – Artist-in-Residence, Recreation Specialist, Dancer, Camera, Light
and Sound Technicians, Costume, Scenery, and Lighting Designers for Dance
Companies
Visual Art:
The major in Visual
Art provides preparation for careers in art education, architecture, art
history, ceramics, design, graphic design, illustration, media art, painting,
photography, printmaking, publications and sculpture.
· Sample
Career Options: Professional: Art Educator, Architect, Art Historian,
Museum Curator, Master Craftsman, Fashion Design,
Industrial Design,
Jewelry Design, Recreation Specialist, Graphic Designer/Art Director (TV,
studio or network films), Corporate Designer, Illustrator, Painter; Skilled:
Craftsman, Model Maker, Computer Artist, Artist-in-Residence, Fiber and Fabric
Design, Furniture Design, Interior Design, Recreation Specialist, Graphic
Designer Apprentice, Wallpaper Designer, Poster Designer, Sequential Art
Writer, Painter
Journalism/Media
Arts:
This major is
designed for the student who will be pursing a career in either information
gathering or the dissemination of information. Journalism/media arts
include news writing, sports writing, editorial writing, feature writing,
critical review writing, layout and design, graphic elements, advertising
and photographic composition. Students will explore the effect of media
communication and its counterparts.
· Sample
Career Options: Professional: Reporter, editor, publisher, broadcaster,
advertising executive, public relations executive,
graphic artist,
layout designer, desk top publishing, writer, producer, communications analyst,
instructor; Skilled: All of the above, but in a paraprofessional or
apprentice capacity
Liberal Arts
-- Foreign Language:
The goal of this
major is to give the student a high level of proficiency in one foreign language
so that post secondary study in the language can start at an advanced level.
The foreign language career major concentrates on careers in which knowledge
and use of a foreign language is the primary skill required. Examples
of ways in which a foreign language could be used are teaching a foreign
language, translating printed documents, interpreting the spoken word, serving
as a consultant on a specific country or region of the world, and working
for U.S. or foreign based companies abroad.
· Sample
Career Options: Professional: teacher, university professor, translator,
interpreter; Skilled: Sign language interpreter
Liberal Arts
– Writing/Literature:
This major is
designed for the student who will be pursuing a career in written communication.
· Sample
Career Options: Professional: Author, editor, publisher, broadcaster,
news commentator, journalist, public relations
specialist, mass
media researcher and teacher; Skilled: All of the above, but in a paraprofessional
or apprentice capacity
Liberal Arts
– Oral Communications:
This major prepares
students for careers in public relations, management, administration, law
and radio and television performance. Course work includes communication
theory and modeling, verbal and non-verbal coding, the media and its influence
on our society, voice and diction, persuasive speaking and organizational
communication.
· Sample
Career Options: Professional: Public relations, radio/television performance,
broadcast journalism, management,
administration,
law; Skilled: All of the above, but in a paraprofessional or apprentice
capacity
Liberal Arts
– Social Studies:
This career major
is designed for the student who will be pursuing a career in either social
studies research or public school and/or higher education teaching.
This area includes anthropology, geography, history, political science, sociology,
psychology, philosophy and economics.
· Sample
Career Options: Professional: Anthropologist, geographer, demographic
researcher, historian, political science analyst,
sociologist, and
economist; Skilled: All of the above, but in a paraprofessional or
apprentice capacity
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