Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Class is held at St. Agnes. Spring semester only.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Acting

Class is held at St. Agnes

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes juniors and seniors.

Advanced Drawing students explore a wide range of drawing materials and techniques such as charcoal, pencil, ink, mixed-media and acrylic paint.  Students develop the technical skills to replicate what they see and the intuitive practice to communicate what they feel.  Art historical examples and technical demonstrations are presented for each new project.  The practice of concise language is encouraged during the critique process.  This one-semester course encourages serious students to develop personal expression as well as professionalism.  Artwork and lessons from field trips to museums, galleries and artist's studios are incorporated into the curriculum.

Prerequisite: Beginning Drawing.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes juniors and seniors.

Advanced Painting is designed for the artist who enjoyed our Painting class and can’t wait to smell paint again! Skills acquired in previous classes such as Drawing and Painting equip the Advanced Painting student to create more personally motivated and ambitious art. The ultimate priority for each student is to use this class as an opportunity to make the art that he/she is passionately motivated to create. Each student is encouraged to customize assignments to his/her liking so that his/her art is uniquely representative of the artist and reflective of concepts and issues that are important to him/her. Like all advanced art students Advanced Painting students are required to participate in our end-of-year advanced art show. They are also given multiple opportunities to show and compete. This class also serves as an excellent portfolio building venue.

Prerequisite: Painting or Advanced Studio Art.

Class held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

The Advanced Photography and Filmmaking course is designed for students interested in pursuing advanced level work in photography, filmmaking, graphic art, and various other new media and digital art making mediums; including 3D printing, various video and time-base mediums, internet and software-based formats, installation, and light and sound-based mediums. The course is designed to challenge the art student creatively, intellectually, and technically, and to expose them to the practical and community concerns of creative careers. Students in this course are engaged in a curriculum that exposes them to the unique nature of creative careers through the voices of visiting artists and arts professionals; students also enjoy a full day field trip to local galleries and arts organizations. Students in this course further pursue their education in contemporary art history and theory. Research and outside preparations are an integral part of the course work as that each student will design their own curriculum for the semester based on their own unique creative goals. This course caters to students building college portfolios, but is recommended to all students interested in gaining a deeper understanding of contemporary art and cinema while pursuing a cohesive personal portfolio. The course ends in a group showing of work curated by the students.

Prerequisites: Digital Photography, Filmmaking or Graphic Arts

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes juniors and seniors.

This one semester course provides students with the opportunity to concentrate on portfolio building and competition. Students employ a variety of drawing, painting, and mixed media to create professional quality work. The course is designed to challenge the art student creatively and technically and to encourage independent problem-solving. Research and outside preparations are an integral part of the course work. Advanced Studio students enjoy a full day field trip to museums, galleries and visits from guest artists. 

Prerequisite: Beginning Drawing and Painting or Advanced Drawing.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes juniors and seniors.

This course is designed to develop musical skills that will lead to a thorough understanding of music composition and music theory. Students are prepared to take the AP Music Theory Exam when they have completed the course. Students planning to major in music in college may be able to enroll in an advanced music theory course, depending on individual colleges’ AP policies.

Students are expected to take the AP Music Theory exam in May. There is a fee associated with the exam.

Perquisite: Music Theory 2

Mr. Hernandez-Ching or Mr. Burke’s approval is required.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Art History A transports students back in time through the drawing, painting and architecture of ancient cultures, from Paleolithic cave paintings to Gothic Cathedrals. The study of ancient art serves as a window into the past. There is no more reliable way to understand lost cultures than through the contemplation of their creations. Discerning the significance and relevance of art to the lost cultures or distant societies that created it is a continual focus of the class. Students examine shifts and trends in art and architecture and correlate them with events from history. Stories that are more fantastic than fiction make the art come alive. Art is even more wondrous when we study the factors that surround the creation of such marvels as Stonehenge, the Egyptian pyramids, Minoan frescoes or Greek sculpture. The art history student is more intimately connected to the world and better equipped to fully appreciate travel and museum experiences.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Class held at St. Agnes
Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.
This course is designed to help young actors begin to negotiate the world of the audition. Students hone their audition skills in a supportive atmosphere, through hands-on workshops focusing on various types of auditions that may include contemporary and classical monologues, commercial voiceovers, cold-copy commercial, etc. By meeting and auditioning for working artists and casting directors from the professional world, students will gain insight and refine the skills that will help them audition more effectively in all contexts.  

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes students.

The Strake Jesuit/St. Agnes Band performs at all football games as well as Christmas and Spring Concerts and Contests.  The group affords instrumentalists the opportunity for both solo and ensemble performance.  The band is open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes students by audition and can accommodate players from moderate to advance experience levels.  

This class meets during 0 period before school from 7:00am – 7:45am.  

Mr. Burke’s approval is required. 

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

This is an intermediate course in ceramics. Students will practice the basic techniques of hand-building (pinch pot, slab construction, and coil construction) and will develop their wheel-throwing skills. Craftsmanship, creativity, and an appreciation for the elements that are inherent to well-made functional pottery are emphasized in this class. The students will continue to use the basic visual art elements and apply principles of design to all ceramic work. They will produce decorative and functional pottery.

Prerequisite: Mixed Media

Class held at St. Agnes
Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.
This course serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of dance and performance skills (steps, patterns, and formations) found in the dances of selected nations or ethnographic region, including non-western dance forms (i.e. street dance/social dance). Supplemental information will include geographic, historic, and cultural context with additional emphasis on contemporary musical forms and meters.

Class held at St. Agnes
Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Explore the wide range of movement that exists within our bodies and the world around us. Developed as an introductory studio course in the art and craft of composing and choreographing dances, students explore the elements of dance making through the manipulation of time, space, and energy. Each student works within their own technical skill level to uncover the endless possibilities of movement within the human body and the vast opportunities for communication of the human experience. Prerequisites: Intermediate Dance or by instructor permission. Participation in the Spring Dance Concert is highly recommended.

Open to Strake Jesuit sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of drawing and illustration and will focus on the digital application and how it relates to traditional media. Students will use Procreate and Affinity Designer for the iPad to create digital art.

Open to Strake Jesuit sophomores, juniors, and seniors.
This course builds on the concepts learned in Digital Drawing and Illustration 1 and explores more complex subjects through a digital medium. Students will use Procreate and Affinity Designer for the iPad as well as Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. 

Prerequisite: Digital Drawing and Illustration 1 or Beginning Drawing.

Open to Strake Jesuit sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

This course is an advanced study of digital editing and image correction as it applies to the needs of graphics or photography for students and professionals. This class serves as a portfolio design class and students will focus their time on creating a minimum 5 piece portfolio. Students may choose to focus their time in Photoshop or Illustrator and are required to enter a minimum of one art competition during the semester.

Prerequisite: Digital Graphics 1

Open to Strake Jesuit sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

This course is an introduction to digital photography as a fine art and as a means of personal expression. It provides students with the necessary technical and aesthetic skills to make quality digital photographs in ambient light. Topics covered include the understanding of the technology of digital and film cameras, basics of exposure, perspective, point of view, color principles, motion blur, composition, and the basic use of Adobe Photoshop.

No previous experience is necessary and a set of cameras will be shared among the class.

Open to Strake Jesuit sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

This course builds on the foundational concepts learned in Digital Photography 1, but offers another dynamic to those skills: the use of flash. The course will provide students with a deeper understanding of how the camera sees light and how that process may be manipulated by the addition of light to create more desirable, professional images. Topics covered include single and multiple light set ups, portraiture, product photography, light modification, and the careful balancing of ambient light with flash.

Consistent with Digital Photography 1, students must own or have daily access to a digital camera with manual control (a DSLR camera). Cell phone photography is not applicable to the course.

Prerequisite: Digital Photography 1

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

With practice, anyone can learn to draw! This course is ideal for timid beginners and experienced artists. For the novice, Beginning Drawing equips students to sensitively represent whatever they see. Beginning Drawing students start with fundamental skills and gradually build upon those basic skills until anything is possible. Students with some previous training will gain greater confidence, speed, and sensitivity to aid in the full realization of their own inspirations. Beginning Drawing students explore their own potential with pencil, charcoal, ink and a variety of application methods through a series of technical and creative assignments. Gradually the student develops the ability to render real and imagined imagery through the mastery of sensitive observational sketching, value and texture reproduction, perspective application, and design principles. Beginning Drawing also equips the artist with methodological and conceptual skills that are essential for success in more advanced drawing and painting classes.  This class is a prerequisite for Advanced Drawing and Painting.  About two hours of homework per week is required.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

This course introduces students to concepts of film music composition and production. Students will learn technical skills, concise contextual background, and musical topics through a combination of readings, screenings, and exercises, all in an online format.

Prerequisite: Completion of Music Theory 2 or Digital Audio Production is required. Students should be comfortable with the features and workings of Logic Pro as DAW (digital audio workstation). An existing competency in creating music, combined with a thoughtful awareness of drama and human emotion will be critical assets to draw upon from your own background.

Class held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

The Filmmaking course is an entry level course designed to teach the technical and conceptual fundamentals of filmmaking. Students create their own short films in this course using a variety of software and hardware including DSLR cameras and Adobe Premiere. The conceptual material covered in the course exposes students to the history of world cinema and encourages them to see film as more than entertainment through film screenings and critical analysis. Also covered are the various ways filmmakers use the time-based medium in the fine arts, in stage production for live music and theater, in advertising and marketing, and in the myriad forms film now takes online and in various other industries. From exposure to the diverse uses of film today students are encouraged to develop their own unique interests and creative goals to pursue with their filmmaking projects.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Fundamentals of Art provides students with a working knowledge of the basic principles, theories, and concepts of two dimensional and three dimensional image-making.  This course explores creative thinking skills and develops artistic awareness.  Students practice the basic skills and techniques necessary for creating traditional and contemporary artwork. This course provides students with an opportunity to build a creative foundation through the understanding of the visual language of art and a basic knowledge of art materials and mediums.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

This performance-based course features the aesthetic and technical aspects of playing the guitar, reading standard notation/lead sheets, and interpreting songs from sheet music/recordings to implement into a performance.  The course utilizes a classroom-set of acoustic guitars, but is applicable to electric guitar as well. Students will present a final performance of a song of their choice for their peers. Prior musical knowledge/experience is NOT necessary to excel in this course.

Prerequisite: None

Class is held at St. Agnes

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Prerequisite: Introduction to Dance or Instructor Permission.

Class held at St. Agnes
Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.
Explore the art of woodworking in our "Introduction to Woodworking" class, tailored for high school students at our all-girls high school. Whether you're a complete beginner or have limited woodworking experience, this course will teach you safe tool operation, creative problem-solving, and the basics of working with wood. 80% of your time will be spent on hands-on creations in our Scene Shop, with opportunities for group and individual projects. This class is a gateway to mastering the medium of wood and acquiring valuable skills that extend beyond the workshop, making it a valuable addition to any field of study or career path. Join us to unleash your creativity and craftsmanship through the beauty of woodworking. 

Class is held at St. Agnes

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes students.

This select ensemble is made up of saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and rhythm section. This ensemble performs the music of the foremost big band composers, past and present. The ensemble performs two concerts each semester. Students must audition for placement in the Jazz Ensemble. Only members of the Symphonic Band may audition for the ensemble, with the exception of guitar, bass, and piano, which is open to any student. Auditions take place at the beginning of the Fall semester.

Offered during the Fall and Spring semesters. Each semester is 0.25 credits.

This class meets during 6^th period every Monday.

Contact Mr. Burke before the fall for audition music and information.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Mixed Chorus is composed of both St. Agnes and Strake Jesuit students from grades 9–12.  Selected by audition in April of the previous year, chorus members meet daily, Monday through Friday from 7:10 am to 7:50 am (which may prevent you from being in SJET).  Chorus members learn basic breathing and vocal focus and basic music theory.  All members learn to sight read and are exposed to a variety of vocal styles, from Renaissance to Broadway.  Every student is evaluated at least once a year by an individual jury, during which they perform chorus music in front of the music faculty.  All students have the opportunity to perform at least three times a year, to audition for All State chorus, and to participate in the annual Chorus Tour.  The week before the Fall and Spring performances, rehearsals will also take place from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. (which may cause conflicts with athletic practices and games on those two weeks.)  Fee and uniforms are required.

This class meets during 0 period Monday – Friday. 

Audition required.  Individual jury required at least once a year.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

This course is designed to give the student a background in the fundamentals of the language of music.  It focuses on the mechanics of music as well as basics of music analysis.  Students should have some prior experience with music. 

Mr. Hernandez-Ching or Mr. Burke’s approval is required.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

This course continues the music theory background offered in the first semester course.  It also has added emphasis on music analysis well as the fundamentals of music arranging and composing.  

Prerequisite: Music Theory 1. 

Mr. Hernandez-Ching or Mr. Burke’s approval is required.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Offered in collaboration with the Theater, Music and Dance programs, students will develop and hone skills in Broadway dance techniques, applied vocal techniques, ensemble singing, and acting techniques related directly to the musical theater genre. Course may be repeated.

Participation in this class does not guarantee a role in the spring musical.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes juniors and seniors.

This is an excellent one-semester course for ambitious students who wish to compete and create portfolios. Students build on Beginning Drawing skills in combination with color theory instruction to create original paintings. Introduction to Prisma pencil, watercolor, acrylic and oil paint, as well as the history of painting, is offered.  The semester encompasses demonstrations of new techniques, presentations on how artists have historically approached painting, critiques and working time in the studio. Students enjoy a day-long field trip to artist's studios to meet working artists, as well as exposure to galleries and museums.

Prerequisite: Beginning Drawing.

Class held at St. Agnes
Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.
A survey of the wide range of ways that performance can be made: from a script, through devising, in adaptation, via community collaboration, and more. Students will be expected to complete both in-class and weekly project assignments and will work through these assignments to develop a range of performance pieces. This course is intended to be a collective playground for aspiring playwrights, actors, comedians, and beyond. 

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors and seniors.

Class is held at St. Agnes.

This small chorus is composed of students from St. Agnes and Strake Jesuit who have been in Chorale or Mixed Chorus the previous year.  The group meets daily during a class period.  Throughout the year, the chorus performs various functions both in and out of the city.  Students are selected by audition.

Prerequisite: Mixed Chorus.

A fee and uniform are required.  

Class is held at St. Agnes.

Open to Strake Jesuit and St. Agnes sophomores, juniors, and seniors.

Do you enjoy singing with the radio, in the shower or in the church congregation?  Have you ever wanted to have a place and people to sing with just for fun while at the same time improving your vocal skills?  This course is geared towards the student who desires to gain an appreciation for music by singing within a group setting.  It incorporates the teaching of music fundamentals and their application to all kinds of music.  A wide range of vocal styles including musical theatre, popular, jazz, and classical will be explored. 

This class can only be taken once.