Content Expectations
Visual, Performing, and Applied Arts, MMC Credit Guidelines (2006)

Visual, Performing, and Applied Arts Credit Guidelines

To meet the one credit graduation requirement in the visual, performing, and applied arts, students will develop competence in the artistic/creative process by demonstrating proficiency in all of the following guidelines.
Strand I: Create (C)
The student will:
C.1 Engage in full iterative cycles* of the artistic/creative
process by problem seeking, exploring, making analytical,
application, aesthetic, and design choices, before completion.
C.2 Develop an idea, question, or problem that is guided by the
personal, historical, contemporary, cultural, environmental,
and/or economic contexts of the visual, performing,
or applied arts discipline.
C.3 Understand, recognize, and use the elements,
organizational principles, patterns, relationships,
techniques, skills, and applications of the visual, performing,
or applied arts discipline.
C.4 Use the best available and appropriate instruments,
resources, tools, and technologies to facilitate critical
decision-making, problem solving, editing, and the creation
of solutions.
C.5 Reflect on and articulate the steps and various
relationships of the artistic/creative process.
Strand II: Perform/Present (P)
The student will:
P.1 Apply the techniques, elements, principles, intellectual
methods, concepts, and functions of the visual, performing,
or applied arts discipline to communicate ideas, emotions,
experiences, address opportunities to improve daily life,
and solve problems with insight, reason, and competence.
P.2 Demonstrate skillful use of appropriate vocabularies,
tools, instruments, and technologies of the visual,
performing, or applied arts discipline.
P.3 Describe and consider relationships among the intent
of the student/artist, the results of the artistic/creative
process, and a variety of potential audiences or users.
P.4 Perform, present, exhibit, publish, or demonstrate the
results of the artistic/creative process for an audience.
Strand III: Respond (R)
The student will:
R.1 Observe, describe, reflect, analyze, and interpret works
of the visual, performing, or applied arts.
R.2 Identify, describe, and analyze connections across the
visual, performing, and applied arts disciplines, and other
academic disciplines.
R.3 Describe, analyze, and understand the visual, performing,
or applied arts in historical, contemporary, social, cultural,
environmental, and/or economic contexts.
R.4 Experience, analyze, and reflect on the variety of meanings
that can be derived from the results of the artistic/creative process.
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