Course Catalog

Course Number:
FNM142

Course Description:
Students will be introduced to character rig setups for use in 2D animation using industry-level software. Many animated shows for television use puppet rigs for cartoon animation. Students will design, rig, and animate during the course of this class.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
THA402

Course Description:
Students study the specialized style of acting for the camera through exercises and scene work. Fundamentals of artistic approach mirror and reinforce techniques covered in acting classes for the stage, with attention given to appropriate adjustments in the scale of an individual performance. Students learn the basic approaches to utilizing camera techniques in order to give their most unique, truthful performance. All students learn and practice essential competence with the film equipment required for the class.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA101

Course Description:
Acting Foundations is a class for non-Theatre Majors to learn the craft of acting. Students will experience warm ups, games, exercises, and improvisations that illuminate the basic principles of acting, and apply their discoveries to scenes from plays culminating in a final in-class showcase.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA404

Course Description:
This course applies the major principles of acting theory covered in the Acting Technique classes to the texts of Shakespeare. Students are challenged to develop a practical methodology for joining together modern naturalistic performance theory to the special demands of heightened language and verse drama.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
THA053

Course Description:
This course provides the foundational studio experience for all Performance majors in the Theatre Division. Students are divided into four class sections to work with individual Acting faculty members and a select ensemble of peers for the entire school year, with the opportunity to work with a different teacher for every year that they are a Major at the Academy. Basic exercises from primary theorists are intermixed with ensemble improvisations and analytical and practical work with assigned dramatic texts.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
THA053

Course Description:
This course provides the foundational studio experience for all Performance majors in the Theatre Division. Students are divided into four class sections to work with individual Acting faculty members and a select ensemble of peers for the entire school year, with the opportunity to work with a different teacher for every year that they are a Major at the Academy. Basic exercises from primary theorists are intermixed with ensemble improvisations and analytical and practical work with assigned dramatic texts.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
SCI401

Course Description:
This one-semester, advanced-level chemistry course students will focus on understanding atoms, starting with the structure of individual atoms and moving outward to look at how atoms interact with other atoms. In this course students will explore the historical development of the atomic theory up to and including quantum theory. These theories will then be used to understand nuclear chemistry, bonding theories and how molecules interact. Applications of the theories and laboratory experiments to explore these concepts will be incorporated into the class.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry

Course Number:
SCI402

Course Description:
This one-semester, advanced-level chemistry course students will focus on understanding chemical reactions. These reactions will be considered from the perspectives of electrochemistry, thermochemistry, kinetics, and equilibrium. Students will explore these concepts through discussion, applications of theories, simulations, and laboratory experiments. Students will get hands-on experience conducting experiments and analyzing data.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry

Course Number:
MUS422

Course Description:
This course meets four days per week with the purpose of studying how musical ideas can be communicated to an ensemble. Students will develop skills in score study, interpretation, transposition, movement exploration, score reading, leadership, advanced musicianship, and rehearsal techniques. This is a year-long course that culminates in a performance conducting their peers. Seniors and Post-graduates are eligible to enroll in the course. Students must be enrolled in or have passed Theory C.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS423

Course Description:
This course meets four days per week with the purpose of studying how musical ideas can be communicated to an ensemble. Students will develop skills in score study, interpretation, transposition, movement exploration, score reading, leadership, advanced musicianship, and rehearsal techniques. This is a year-long course that culminates in a performance conducting their peers. Seniors and Post-graduates are eligible to enroll in the course. Students must be enrolled in or have passed Theory C.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MTH420

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the world of budgeting, understanding credit, debt, and how to navigate the financial world - all skills that are important for adulthood. Students will learn the difference between wealth and cash, how to create a budget, and how to navigate the confusing world of taxes, loans, and credit cards. Students will also learn the importance of making investments and how to plan for - and meet - both short-term and long-term financial goals. Through simulations and creating personal goals, students will get hands-on experience planning for their financial success.

Program:
Mathematics

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
MTH440

Course Description:
In this introductory programming course, students learn both fundamental programming concepts and collaborative software development processes while working in a project-based environment to design apps. Students learn about variables, conditionals, functions, lists, loops, traversals, algorithms, parameters, return, and libraries. Students explore ideas through hands-on activities, investigate these ideas through guided code reading, practice with sample problems, and apply their understanding as they produce a one-day scoped project. The course concludes with an open-ended project designing and building an app.

Program:
Mathematics

Offered:
Fall

Course Number:
MTH441

Course Description:
In this introductory programming course, students learn both fundamental programming concepts and collaborative software development processes while working in a project-based environment to design apps. Students learn about variables, conditionals, functions, lists, loops, traversals, algorithms, parameters, return, and libraries. Students explore ideas through hands-on activities, investigate these ideas through guided code reading, practice with sample problems, and apply their understanding as they produce a one-day scoped project. The course concludes with an open-ended project designing and building an app.

Program:
Mathematics

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MTH431

Course Description:
In this course, students gain an understanding of and comfort working with data and statistics. Designed for students who have completed the mathematics curriculum up to or beyond Algebra, students learn one variable analysis, two variable analysis, as well as probability and statistical inference. Students learn to question statistical information and think critically about possible conclusions. Students work with data and develop observational studies and experiments. Students also learn to calculate and use probabilities.

Program:
Mathematics

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
THA324

Course Description:
This course explores the utilization of the acting process through song. Students learn the unique challenges of the genre for the performer through work with scenes, ensemble and small group songs, characterizations, vocal work, and choreography. This course culminates with a showcase of selected material performed during Festival at the end of the school year.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity

Course Number:
CRW360

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE300

Course Description:
In this course, students will be responsible for the production, recording, overdubbing and mixing of two separate 3-4 song EPs for two different artists, completing one per semester, over the course of the school year. They will choose the artists, and each semester they will create a coherent, professional and emotionally impactful collection of recordings. This course is only open to multi-year Music Production & Engineering Majors.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE204

Course Description:
In this course, students learn ensemble audio recording. They learn to work with multiple microphones and headphone mixes, as well as the process of setups and teardowns. Through hands-on assignments, they master working with smaller and larger ensembles in a variety of music genres.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
CRW314

Course Description:
This course continues to explore much of the same work done in Introduction to Screenwriting, including all aspects of the screenplay and more in depth with some of the professional pieces such as the art of pitching stories. However, all screenwriting will be student driven. Students set specific goals for their work, as they also continue to read professional screenplays, and work on their analytical skills with a long form essay. All enrolled students should be serious about their screenwriting.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MTH110

Course Description:
In this course, students begin their study of mathematical patterns and ideas. The course is balanced between learning skills, exploring concepts, and solving problems. Students use technology to gather, interpret, and represent data from real-world situations. Creating and using mathematical models is a theme throughout. Algebra is integrated with geometry, probability, and statistics. Students learn equations - linear, quadratic, and exponential - as well as systems of equations and inequalities, functions, and fractals.

Program:
Mathematics

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MTH111

Course Description:
In this course, students begin their study of mathematical patterns and ideas. The course is balanced between learning skills, exploring concepts, and solving problems. Students use technology to gather, interpret, and represent data from real-world situations. Creating and using mathematical models is a theme throughout. Algebra is integrated with geometry, probability, and statistics. Students learn equations - linear, quadratic, and exponential - as well as systems of equations and inequalities, functions, and fractals.

Program:
Mathematics

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MTH311

Course Description:
In Algebra II, students study functions - linear, exponential, polynomial, and parametric - through the use of data. Students also learn introductory trigonometry, statistics, and probability. Students use calculators, computers, and data gathering devices to investigate all topics. Throughout the course, students discover the sense behind the mathematics, rather than simply learning steps for solving problems. Small group work, discussion, and the real world interpretation of mathematics are stressed. Applications to the arts are woven throughout the curriculum.

Program:
Mathematics

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MTH310

Course Description:
In Algebra II, students study functions - linear, exponential, polynomial, and parametric - through the use of data. Students also learn introductory trigonometry, statistics, and probability. Students use calculators, computers, and data gathering devices to investigate all topics. Throughout the course, students discover the sense behind the mathematics, rather than simply learning steps for solving problems. Small group work, discussion, and the real world interpretation of mathematics are stressed. Applications to the arts are woven throughout the curriculum.

Program:
Mathematics

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM054

Course Description:
This course introduces students to the mindful exploration of their identity in the arts. Students reflect on personal influences, mentors, and aspirations, synthesizing them into an Artist Statement.Forum challenges students to use the Artist Statement as a compass of values with which they examine their creative work in the attempt to keep it consistent with their ambitions, influences and priorities. Forum meetings are made regularly, by appointment, with FNM Animation Faculty Advisors.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM120

Course Description:
Students will learn traditional animation movement fundamentals and apply them digitally to create character-based animation involving full motion with synchronized voice.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM055

Course Description:
Students will spend 2 semesters starting in the fall developing a short animated film from start to finish. First time students work collaboratively. Returners have the option to work independently.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
FNM130

Course Description:
Before Cinema there was animation. Students will be introduced to the history of animation that is multicultural and diverse spanning thousands of years. Outcomes include research and writing on animation history.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW332

Course Description:
The story of the antiheroine is a long, winding and endlessly complex one. This class will be an attempt to unearth and untangle some of that literary and sociological history. To that end, we will read a wide range of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf, Annie Ernaux, Daphne du Maurier, Alice Notley and others, all of whom have crafted female characters who disrupt conventional notions of gender and femininity and, in turn, call into question the very idea of “story” itself. Looking closely at literary techniques like voice, subjectivity, and characterization, we’ll think about how anti-heroines might enrich and expand narrative possibility—and we’ll get to work conjuring our own via frequent cross-genre writing assignments.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MTH510

Course Description:
Students completing the course successfully are prepared to take the AP Calculus AB exam. Students learn limits, continuity, differentiability; optimization, related rates, separable differential equations, and slope fields; indefinite integrals, Riemann Sums, definite integrals, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, and applications of the definite integral. The course material is explored through class discussions, small group activities and investigations, sample exam questions, and individual study of problems.

Program:
Mathematics

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
MTH520

Course Description:
This course introduces the students to the basic concepts of one of the most important fields of mathematics most people ever encounter. Statistics is about data, and data are numbers with a context. Students learn to make statements of facts and inferences and to state a level of confidence in their inferences. They become proficient in accurately communicating statistical concepts, including methods of data collection and valid interpretations of data. The course follows the topics outlined in the Advanced Placement curriculum in preparation for the AP Test in May.

Program:
Mathematics

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
INT111

Course Description:
This course explores how technology can be used to make artwork. With the understanding that technology can be defined as a paint brush or a computer, and that technology is not art, this class explores how the choices we make create a bridge between the viewer and the individual artist's desire to make a difference. Students will have the opportunity to utilize the ICA Makerspace and discover the integration of art and technology. They’ll gain knowledge about fundamental makerspace tools, such as 3D printing, digital media creation, soldering, and circuits. No prior experience is required, and beginners are encouraged to join. 

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
VA353

Course Description:
This course is designed as a survey of art history, focusing on cultures and regions outside of thetraditional Western canon covered in most survey courses. We will investigate visual movements,important figures, and historical developments from the cultures and geographical regions reviewed.Class will consist of short lectures, classroom discussions of material and occasional short readingassignments, and short group and individual projects. These projects may include studio art assignmentsas well as short class presentations, both group and individual. We will examine pieces from manydifferent media, including but not limited to painting, sculpture, illuminated manuscripts, and architecture.We will progress both geographically and chronologically and focus on significant works from SoutheastAsia, China, Korea, Japan, the Islamic world, native arts in the Americas, the African continent, and islandcultures in Oceania. Lecture and class discussions will focus on the political, social, and historicalcircumstances surrounding the production of artworks throughout our historical timeframe.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA351

Course Description:
This class is an introduction to the history and developments in arts and culture. In the first semester the curriculum begins in the ancient world through to the Renaissance. In the second semester, we move from Baroque to 21st century contemporary art and artists.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI405

Course Description:
This course provides an introduction to Astronomy through individual, collaborative, as well as web-based tutorial-guided activities. The course will survey major concepts of Astronomy such as star formation, evolution of planetary and galactic systems, gravity and the role it plays in shaping up our universe as a whole, light and how its spectra allow us to observe the universe in a variety of ways using corresponding telescopes and data collection devices. Latest astronomical observations, results from recent space missions, and undergoing research in this ever-changing field will both guide as well as allow students to keep abreast with the progress Astronomy undergoes, which in turn improves their understanding of humanity's place in this magnificent cosmos. In addition, this course fosters the idea of becoming good readers of scientific literature and the writing of scientific journals and reflections.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA320

Course Description:
This course provides students the opportunity to learn about the audition process in a classroom setting through performance of their own material, as well as observation of others. Each student will end the class with at least three monologues chosen and two that are ready to perform at the end of the semester in college auditions. They will also audition for several surprise guests over the term for colleges, full-length plays, classical work and create practice pre-screen videos. Students also spend several days in the library, learning about how to use all of the analog and digital resources for finding material, and are given a slide presentation by Lauren Quinlan, one of our librarians who has a masters degree in Theatrical Dramaturgy. Ideally, their pieces should work together to form “packages” or “sets” consisting of a mix of comedy and drama, classical and contemporary, which will showcase the student’s individual strengths. This course is designed for juniors only, in order to prepare them for their Fall college auditions.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA405

Course Description:
Audition Technique provides students the opportunity to create quality audition material through individual appointments with the instructor. Each student will be required to have six monologues prepared and ready to be performed by the end of the semester. These pieces will work together to form "packages" consisting of a mix of comedy and drama, classical and contemporary, in a way that will showcase the student's individual strengths. Each student will meet with the instructor in a weekly 25-minute session. Students are required to identify the pieces on their own, although the instructor will give advice on appropriate material selection. This is a student-driven course.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
THA405

Course Description:
Audition Technique provides students the opportunity to create quality audition material through individual appointments with the instructor. Each student will be required to have six monologues prepared and ready to be performed by the end of the semester. These pieces will work together to form "packages" consisting of a mix of comedy and drama, classical and contemporary, in a way that will showcase the student's individual strengths. Each student will meet with the instructor in a weekly 25-minute session. Students are required to identify the pieces on their own, although the instructor will give advice on appropriate material selection. This is a student-driven course.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
DAN110

Course Description:
The Ballet curriculum focuses on the specific information the training dancer will need to grow within the art form. Through repetition, discussion and exploration, dancers acquire technical proficiency. With an emphasis on creativity and discipline, dancers gain confidence and life skills.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
MUS051

Course Description:
The Academy Orchestra and Academy Wind Symphony perform major pieces of the symphonic repertoire, full staged ballets, concerti, new music and classic as well, and performs with choir and other ensembles. The Orchestra presents numerous concerts each year and frequently collaborates with renowned guest artists and conductors. Woodwind, brass and percussion students are placed into either Orchestra or Wind Symphony based on preliminary auditions.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE112

Course Description:
In this class, students learn about the relationship between creativity and recording tools. They gain knowledge of microphone characteristics and learn to make informed decisions on microphone choice, usage and placement. They learn about signal flow through a recording console, characteristics of various microphone preamplifiers, the use of compressors, limiters, EQ and other processors. Students gain the knowledge they need to create tracks that fit their creative aesthetic, and to make recordings that enable them to communicate their musical ideas.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI101

Course Description:
This course is a year-long exploration of many important topics in biology (the science of living things). Students will be asked to think critically about a variety of scientific topics, as well as build their confidence in “doing science”.Students will have the opportunity to learn scientific laboratory skills as well as become more well-rounded individuals as they further their ability to think about the world in a scientifically literate way. Students will learn how to think critically & scientifically, interpret evidence and get curious about the world around them. In addition, students will engage with a variety of biological topics, including the science of biology, chemistry of life, cellular structure & function, ecology & natural selection.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
SCI311

Course Description:
In this science course, students explore the complexities of regenerative agriculture through the lens of documentary film study and with an engaging hands-on science experience. The course is targeted toward 9th and 10th grade students. This course will fulfill the requirements for science.The course begins with a focus on ecosystem biology by exploring the importance of our natural and native ecosystems and how they play a critical role in our food systems and local agricultural production. Students will understand the interconnectedness among the soil, water, air, plants, human health, climate change, and the delicate balance that must exist in order for regenerative agriculture to not only provide healthy food but also to help heal the planet and the ecosystems for which we live.We then will explore the impact of agriculture's global impacts across the planet. From small scale local ecosystems to large scale regions, we will look at the way that agriculture impacts all living beings and the critical role that agriculture plays in climate change across the globe. We will end the semester discussing the impacts of agriculture on human health and nutrition. In doing so, we will explore how what we eat, and how it's grown, impacts the human body, mind, and overall health of each one of us. Positing regenerative agriculture in the center of the human diet can help lead to many answers when it comes to understanding the best, most healthy choices for human diets. Throughout the course, students will conduct labs, experiments, have hands-on experiences, and engage in science content while utilizing documentary-style film to guide some content themes of the course.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI312

Course Description:
In this science course, students explore the complexities of regenerative agriculture through the lens of documentary film study and with an engaging hands-on science experience. The course is targeted toward 9th and 10th grade students. This course will fulfill the requirements for biology.First, the course begins with an American historical overview of the methodologies utilized in agriculture in the early 1900s that quickly led to degraded land, a reliance on abundant pesticides and synthetic fertilizers, and a fear of what the natural world may provide when it comes to challenging the success, abundance, and financial gains of agricultural harvests.The course then explores the concept of regenerative farming. Students will understand the interconnectedness among the soil, water, air, plants, human health, climate change, and the delicate balance that must exist in order for regenerative agriculture to not only provide healthy food but to also help heal the planet. We will explore the vital role that plants play on earth and spend time investigating botany, as well as the role of animals in regenerative farming.We will end the semester discussing the impacts of agriculture on human health and nutrition. We will consider the introduction of GMOs, synthetic lab-created meat products, the growing nutritional push for plant-based diets, and the challenge that we face when selecting what to eat. Throughout the course, students will conduct labs and experiments, with hands-on experiences while utilizing documentary-style film to guide some content themes of the course.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS503B

Course Description:
In this year-long course, students clean, polish and reassemble a junk instrument, restoring its raw brass finish and making it playable again. The second semester focuses on the physics of brass instrument design, formulating modifications to improve restored instruments, metal tempering, and more. Students will need to provide the following materials: Tape measureAdjustable ball gauge setDigital CalipersSharpieTriangular scraperSafety glassesApronLeather ShoesJunk brass instrument (available on Ebay/Craigslist)

Program:
Classical Performance

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
HIS318

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the social and cultural impact of the First World War, the rise of the fascist and communist dictatorships, the Great Depression, the Second World War, the Holocaust and the Cold War. The primary focus of the course is on social history, such as the experience of soldiers, the home fronts, the role of women and people of color, and the development of the visual arts, dance, music, literature and cinema in response to the violence that swept the world between 1914 and 1992. Local veterans and others will be interviewed as part of the oral history focus of the course. Military history will be a component of the course as the frame for the cultural and social movements caused by conflict. The course also has a global reach, with attention given to the experience of the peoples of Asia, Africa and South America as well as Europe and North America.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN313

Course Description:
In this course, students will learn how to properly execute stylized movement to reflect traditional folk or national dance of different ethnic groups and their traditions, and how it emphasizes uniqueness and originality of their regions. This course is designed to prepare students to perform stylized folklore dances in classical ballets.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
FNM109

Course Description:
Develop your understanding of character design through a series of exercises and explorations of style, emotion, and silhouette. Create dynamic poses, push your line of action, and develop turn-around character sheets.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Fall

Course Number:
SCI201

Course Description:
This course offers students a modern, relevant course in high school level chemistry. The program combines the theory and concepts of chemistry with practical applications for a basic program for high school students. Atomic structure, chemical bonding, and molecular changes are unifying concepts. Demonstrations and laboratory activities are an integral part of the course, emphasizing quantitative as well as qualitative relationships. Students explore particular topics in chemistry of special or personal interest through a variety of research projects. A strong mathematics background is recommended.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS055

Course Description:
Academy Choir is a requirement for all Voice majors and is open to all students. The choir participates in numerous concerts during the year, performing works from a diverse range of styles, time periods and composers.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS055

Course Description:
Academy Choir is a requirement for all Voice majors and is open to all students. The choir participates in numerous concerts during the year, performing works from a diverse range of styles, time periods and composers.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS055

Course Description:
Academy Choir is a requirement for all Voice majors and is open to all students. The choir participates in numerous concerts during the year, performing works from a diverse range of styles, time periods and composers.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS055

Course Description:
Academy Choir is a requirement for all Voice majors and is open to all students. The choir participates in numerous concerts during the year, performing works from a diverse range of styles, time periods and composers.

Program:
Voice

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN317

Course Description:
Choreographic Composition is designed to help foster individual expression through creation. Students will learn methodologies of composition and develop movement studies as individuals and in groups. The class encourages students to build movement phrases that both challenge and gratify their bodies, allowing them to find freedom and enjoyment in their creativity, while enticing thoughtful choices to be made.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
HIS334

Course Description:
What it means to be an active participant in society, the idea of citizenship, has been debated sinceancient Greece and Rome. This debate, and the idea that each person in society has certain rights andresponsibilities, has been a part of American society since the Revolutionary War. In this tradition, thiscourse will look at what it means to be a citizen of the United States of America. Students will learn moreabout the roles that individuals and groups have played in shaping US society, both through elections andactivist campaigns. Examples from the US will be compared with, and linked to, those in other societies inorder to learn more about the forces behind citizens' actions in working toward "a more perfect union." Therelationship between the power that the government holds, and the role of citizens to maintain and followthis authority will also be looked at.Students should be prepared to research and explore citizen actions and movements over the course ofUS history, and to share their findings with their classmates. Particularly, the role of digital communicationand social media will be analyzed to understand how these mediums influence the ways in which weperceive what it means to be a citizen, and how Americans act in regard to these conceptions.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS241

Course Description:
Class Guitar 1 is designed to help students without previous formal guitar training to start using the guitar as a tool for writing and performing songs. We will explore the guitar as an accompaniment instrument. Techniques include power chords, major, minor, and seventh chords, moveable chords, left-hand shifts, strumming patterns, fingerstyle patterns, common riffs and licks.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS241

Course Description:
Class Guitar 1 is designed to help students without previous formal guitar training to start using the guitar as a tool for writing and performing songs. We will explore the guitar as an accompaniment instrument. Techniques include power chords, major, minor, and seventh chords, moveable chords, left-hand shifts, strumming patterns, fingerstyle patterns, common riffs and licks.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS242

Course Description:
Class Guitar 2 is designed to help students with some previous formal guitar training to develop intermediate guitar skills, and to approach the guitar as a tool for writing and performing songs and improvisation. We will explore the guitar as an accompaniment instrument and as a melodic instrument. We will develop sight-reading skills across the fretboard. Techniques include moveable chords and chord extensions, left-hand shifts and slurs, strumming patterns, fingerstyle patterns, common riffs and licks.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS242

Course Description:
Class Guitar 2 is designed to help students with some previous formal guitar training to develop intermediate guitar skills, and to approach the guitar as a tool for writing and performing songs and improvisation. We will explore the guitar as an accompaniment instrument and as a melodic instrument. We will develop sight-reading skills across the fretboard. Techniques include moveable chords and chord extensions, left-hand shifts and slurs, strumming patterns, fingerstyle patterns, common riffs and licks.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS243

Course Description:
Class Guitar 3 is designed to help students with previous formal guitar training to develop intermediate guitar skills, and to approach the guitar as a tool for writing and performing songs and improvisation. We will explore the guitar as an accompaniment instrument and as a melodic instrument. We will develop sight-reading skills across the fretboard. Techniques include moveable chords and chord extensions, left-hand shifts and slurs, strumming patterns, fingerstyle patterns, common riffs and licks. 

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS244

Course Description:
Class Guitar 4 is designed to help students with previous formal guitar training to develop intermediate and advanced guitar skills, and to approach the guitar as a tool for writing and performing. We will explore the guitar as a solo instrument, an accompaniment instrument and as a melodic instrument for improvisation. We will develop sight-reading skills across the fretboard. Techniques include moveable chords and chord extensions, left-hand shifts and slurs, strumming patterns, fingerstyle patterns, common riffs and licks.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS203

Course Description:
Using the piano lab in a group setting, this course teaches students to read fluently from the grand staff, develop a process of effectively learning multi-part music, and to play piano repertoire with a healthy technique. Students learn sight reading and keyboard theory. Class Piano is paced for the motivated student beginning with no keyboard skills. More advanced students supplement the pace with additional repertoire and technique.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
THA315

Course Description:
This course applies the major principles of acting theory covered in the Acting Technique classes to the classical texts from such playwriting eras as Greek, Elizabethan, Jacobean, Restoration, and French neo-classical. Students are challenged to develop a practical methodology for joining together modern naturalistic performance theory to the special demands of heightened language and verse drama.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective

Course Number:
DAN201

Course Description:
The ballet curriculum is designed to help dancers create a strong pedagogical foundation that may be adapted to any style and technique. With focus on discipline, technical development, and artistic expression, dancers work on building a solid base that is appropriate toward their skill-sets and potential.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
INT110

Course Description:
This project-based introductory course explores how artists take their ideas and expressive impulses and turn them into completed works. Daily and weekly "lightning rounds" of art making from prompts, collaborative work, and semester-long conceptual projects are the vehicle through which students discover the nature of idea-driven creation.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS303

Course Description:
From 1945 to the present, American society evolved from one in which newspapers were the most common form of learning information to one in which you can communicate with a friend in Tokyo faster than you can walk from your dorm to the dining hall. How this transition took place and how its developments - social, technological, political & philosophical - impact your life today will be the focus of this course. The world we live in today is the result of generations of recorded events - inventions, wars, exploration, greed, good, evil and curiosity, to name a few - and how this nation went from AM radio to receiving messages from a rover on Mars is what we will endeavor to understand. What happened to get us to this point explains why our culture is the way it is now. Ideally, this course serves to help students understand why certain Americans think, do and say what they think, do and say, and why we form opinions based on our learning.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
INT051

Course Description:
This class examines contemporary art movements, their historical underpinnings, and the cultural and social movements that shaped them. Students study art, performance, literature, and film from today and, through research and analysis, connect these artistic expressions to the history of aesthetics and culture. Performances, installations, and literature being made at Interlochen will also be used to illustrate discoveries made by student scholars.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
INT052

Course Description:
This class examines contemporary art movements, their historical underpinnings, and the cultural and social movements that shaped them. Students study art, performance, literature, and film from today and, through research and analysis, connect these artistic expressions to the history of aesthetics and culture. Performances, installations, and literature being made at Interlochen will also be used to illustrate discoveries made by student scholars.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS110

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the business of contemporary music. Topics discussed include copyright, music supervision, how to build a team, crowdfunding, publicity (bios, branding, cyber PR and printed), touring, PRO's, publishing, establishing yourself as an artist with the IRS, good book keeping, write-offs, entertainment law, and more.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective

Course Number:
MUS110

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the business of contemporary music. Topics discussed include copyright, music supervision, how to build a team, crowdfunding, publicity (bios, branding, cyber PR and printed), touring, PRO's, publishing, establishing yourself as an artist with the IRS, good book keeping, write-offs, entertainment law, and more.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective

Course Number:
MUS110

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the business of contemporary music. Topics discussed include copyright, music supervision, how to build a team, crowdfunding, publicity (bios, branding, cyber PR and printed), touring, PRO's, publishing, establishing yourself as an artist with the IRS, good book keeping, write-offs, entertainment law, and more.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective

Course Number:
MUS219

Course Description:
Contemporary Theory begins with a review of fundamentals including intervals, triads & seventh chords, scales, keys, and chord inversion. We will study extended chords (jazz harmonies), diatonic harmonic function, cadence, and chromatic chords, particularly secondary dominants and related ii chords. Projects include transcription and arranging for individual instruments and small groups.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS219

Course Description:
Contemporary Theory begins with a review of fundamentals including intervals, triads & seventh chords, scales, keys, and chord inversion. We will study extended chords (jazz harmonies), diatonic harmonic function, cadence, and chromatic chords, particularly secondary dominants and related ii chords. Projects include transcription and arranging for individual instruments and small groups.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS200

Course Description:
This course explores use of the piano and keyboard in contemporary styles. Students will learn fundamental technique (scales, keys, triads & seventh chords, etc.) and basic chord theory. We will apply this knowledge to a variety of styles with an emphasis on rhythmic comping patterns and harmonic ear training.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS200

Course Description:
This course explores use of the piano and keyboard in contemporary styles. Students will learn fundamental technique (scales, keys, triads & seventh chords, etc.) and basic chord theory. We will apply this knowledge to a variety of styles with an emphasis on rhythmic comping patterns and harmonic ear training.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS200

Course Description:
This course explores use of the piano and keyboard in contemporary styles. Students will learn fundamental technique (scales, keys, triads & seventh chords, etc.) and basic chord theory. We will apply this knowledge to a variety of styles with an emphasis on rhythmic comping patterns and harmonic ear training.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN210

Course Description:
The contemporary curriculum is designed to incorporate movement and vocabulary from established and relevant resources into a dancer's training and development. Use of weight, space, music and dynamics are addressed in an explorative and disciplined environment. Composition, the ability to create and the use of movement and motivation is explored. Creativity and discussion is encouraged in a focused and challenging atmosphere.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
THA341

Course Description:
This course is the first part of a two-course progression that serves as an introduction to the disciplineof costume design. Students will focus on the fundamentals of costume design including costume andfashion history, elements and principles of design, the design process, dramatic script analysis, and thecreation of a design statement, designer drawings, renderings, and other collaborativeCommunications.

Program:
Design and Production

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
INT501

Course Description:
The Creative Work Project is the culminating experience and final project for Interdisciplinary Arts seniors and post-graduates. In consultation with the Interdisciplinary Arts Division Director, each senior or post-graduate proposes a Creative Work Project that reflects their artistic emphasis and studies while at Interlochen. This is a year-long class. In the fall semester, students develop their proposal in consultation with the Interdisciplinary Arts Division Director and other Interdisciplinary Arts faculty as appropriate. Spring semester is spent executing the proposal. There will be a final presentation in May during the Interdisciplinary Arts Showcase. Students may also be required to present their project as part of the Interlochen Festival. These projects may or may not have a performance component. This course replaces Individual and Collaborative Studio for a student's senior year.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW501

Course Description:
The goal of the Capstone is to provide an opportunity that caters to students wishing to complete projects that feature conceptual and formal dimensions that would make it difficult to complete in the normal workshop environment, which focuses on individual pieces (poems, stories, essays), not on book-length projects or shorter projects that require extensive research. The Capstone Project is open to any senior who has been enrolled for at least one year at Interlochen Arts Academy.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW357

Course Description:
This class explores writing across genres and new media that is deeply embedded in place, incorporating and interrogating our connection to landscape/cityscape and the ways in which the sense of belonging or dislocation shapes voice and form. Students will explore and discuss a diverse range of authors and artists whose work evokes place in a variety of genres, including nonfiction, immersion journalism, fiction, poetry and new media. Place as the locus of identity, loss, and transformation will be central topics of consideration. Students will experiment with a variety of techniques and modes used to interweave and evoke the complex emotional resonances of the physical world, producing their own place-based texts and collaborative projects. Authors/artists explored will include C.D. Wright, Annie Dillard, Layli Longsoldier, Lauren Groff, Karen Russell, Eula Biss, Louise Erdrich, Emily Wilson, and others.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HUM329

Course Description:
In this course, students explore current events – local, national, and international – that impact their lives and examine the ways in which media cover those events. While studying current events and media, students also learn about foundational journalistic practices, and transform our classroom into a functioning newsroom tasked with producing Interlochen Arts Academy's newspaper, The Interlochen Times. All students will assume roles as Times staffers, and some will take on leadership roles for the publication.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HUM329

Course Description:
In this course, students explore current events – local, national, and international – that impact their lives and examine the ways in which media cover those events. While studying current events and media, students also learn about foundational journalistic practices, and transform our classroom into a functioning newsroom tasked with producing Interlochen Arts Academy's newspaper, The Interlochen Times. All students will assume roles as Times staffers, and some will take on leadership roles for the publication.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA322

Course Description:
This course allows students to exercise physical skills and coordination through the practice of dance methodologies for Musical Theatre. Students learn various dance styles (ie. Jazz, tap, ballet). The course provides a serious and specifically focused dance opportunity for Theatre Majors.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN213

Course Description:
Dance Repertoire develops professional approaches to learning choreography, be it for the sole purpose of study or rehearsals and performances. Whether working in the corps de ballet or as a soloist, dancers are exposed to a variety of choreographers, repertoire and music which are determined by the Interlochen dance faculty in accordance with the students' skill sets, strengths and foreseeable appropriate challenges. The process of learning and potentially performing dance repertoire helps students develop technical skills, artistry and a broader understanding and appreciation toward a full spectrum of dance repertoire.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
THA055A

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to the artistic self. Students develop and access a deeper understanding of who they are as human beings, as artists, as teachers, and community members. The weekly topics of discussion include personal wellness, time management, physical preparedness, artistic freedom, and relevant technical theatre topics.

Program:
Design and Production

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA330

Course Description:
Virtual Realities is a studio intensive course that explores the fundamental techniques, technology, and possibilities of creating virtual objects and spaces to create art and experiences. We will be exploring the process of ideation and refinement of art through a virtual workflow. Students will also learn how to prepare 3D assets for Fabrication. Students will cultivate problem solving skills and spatial awareness by working through the process of creating virtual sculptures and spaces. With the use of 3-D programs and virtual reality headsets we will explore the process of creating assets and experiences in virtual realities.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA113

Course Description:
In this course, students explore a broad range of digital image editing tools. Students enhance their digital literacy by examining the different capabilities of image editing software programs, and understanding the difference between vector and raster-based imagery. Graphic Design, Image Formatting and Photo Editing, and Digital Painting and more will be explored.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity

Course Number:
THA403

Course Description:
This class will provide students with the basic directing techniques needed to direct a play. We will explore composition, terminology and the ethics of good stage directing. We will learn to recognize the various theatrical styles and their influence on directing choices. We will learn to break a script down using units, verbs and arrival points.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA403

Course Description:
This class will provide students with the basic directing techniques needed to direct a play. We will explore composition, terminology and the ethics of good stage directing. We will learn to recognize the various theatrical styles and their influence on directing choices. We will learn to break a script down using units, verbs and arrival points.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM330

Course Description:
Students have the opportunity to learn the fundamentals of directing for the camera. Students work collaboratively to create 2-3 minute films in which each student will participate as both actor and director. Focus will be on the clear articulation of movement and story through performance and shot design. This course focuses on single camera directing techniques with emphasis on filming the narrative script and the director's relationship with the actor. Through exercises in class, student directors will learn script analysis and methods which will increase their ability to penetrate a text and communicate with actors. Visualization skills will be introduced to help students discover the most effective means of telling their stories.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA121

Course Description:
Figure exploration is a study of figurative anatomy and proportion as depicted through observational painting and through digital technology. Students develop a working knowledge of both skeletal and musculature anatomy and how these can be employed and manipulated to create a convincing figure. Students develop strategies for work through the process of creating an armature, sculpting, and finishing. In this course, students also look at digital tools of capturing a three-dimensional model and explore how this can be employed as a tool in hand sculpting and painting.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI303

Course Description:
In Ecology, students learn basic ecological concepts. While wading, hiking, and snowshoeing, the class studies the abundant stream, lake, bog, swamp, marsh, dune, field and forest habitats of the area. The course is presented as a synthesis of the naturalist's sensitivity and the ecologist's understanding of the natural world. From frequent contact with and exposure to nature firsthand, it is hoped that students gain an awareness and appreciation of the beauty and interdependence within the natural world. The primary goal of the course is the development of an ecological ethic. Snowshoes and waders are provided, but sensible outdoor clothing is required for morning and cool-weather outdoor classroom experiences.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS321

Course Description:
In our interconnected world, local events can have global implications, from the price of concert tickets, to the cost of microprocessors. More than ever, humans are reliant on the resources and labor of others throughout the globe to meet their daily needs. This course seeks to explore these economic connections, the decisions that people make in their daily lives, and the consequences of these decisions. Foundational concepts from micro and macro economics will be used to better understand this decision-making process, as well as newer theories from behavioral economics, that illustrate the fact that humans are not always rational actors. The daily news will serve as the main text for this course. Students will choose and examine current economic events, and analyze their causes and effects. Taking on the role of economists, students will collect stories and data, and use economic concepts to make sense of the world around them.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM336

Course Description:
This course introduces students to the fundamental techniques, programs, and possibilities of Editing and Motion Graphics. Through a variety of projects, students will learn about both the theory and practice of editing video and integrating motion graphics and special effects. Students will cultivate problem solving skills by working through projects that require group participation and creative solutions. With emphasis on flexibility, this course will utilize different programs and techniques to create projects that challenge and further our creative practice. Students will learn how to use industry standard programs like Premiere and After Effects, while also learning about the core theory of editing with purpose.

Program:
Film and New Media

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
EL320

Course Description:
This course is designed to help students improve academic English. Students complete nonfiction readings and listening, and each chapter covers an academic subject that is commonly found in universities. In this integrated skills course, students learn useful strategies to increase the speed and accuracy with which they listen to and read academic information in English. Students also improve their ability to express themselves, analyze ideas, and synthesize information in academic writing and speaking.

Program:
English as a Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
EL220

Course Description:
This course uses academic skills and content that prepare students for success in the mainstream classroom, the TOEFL exam, and American universities. Readings are excerpted or adapted from textbooks, academic journals, and other academic sources. Course content covers five academic areas and includes listening to lectures, note-taking, participating in discussions, preparing oral and written reports, and writing essays.

Program:
English as a Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
EL124

Course Description:
In the first semester, this course introduces students to background in American history and culture. Students learn about the early years of American democracy, the development of civil society, and the influences of these principles on American culture. They learn about American holidays and traditions and why we celebrate them. In the second semester, students concentrate on writing coherent, well-organized paragraphs and short essays. When they are able to write a good paragraph, they will work on learning to write short essays.

Program:
English as a Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
EL120

Course Description:
In this course, students speak, listen to, read and write English. Students enlarge their vocabulary by acquiring new words and practicing new idioms. Different grammar topics refine knowledge of verb tenses and irregular verbs. Reading comprehension improve with the study of fiction and expository writing that leads to acquiring academic skills for success in classes with native speakers of English. Students practice writing for different audiences and with different purposes. Current events projects, such as Moth story writing, include practicums for speaking and writing English. Most importantly, students become comfortable having English conversations with the instructor and with fellow students.

Program:
English as a Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
EL122

Course Description:
This course introduces students to basic structures and vocabulary of the English language through the skills of reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Students learn strategies in order to advance their reading, listening, and pronunciation skills. They expand oral comprehensibility and write complete sentences, a standard paragraph, and short content-based essays. They utilize level-appropriate conventions of grammar and punctuation with minimum errors.

Program:
English as a Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective

Course Number:
CRW301

Course Description:
This course introduces students to the stylistic and thematic elements of short fiction through the close reading and analysis of published stories by a diverse range of authors. Students participate in in-class writing exercises and are asked to turn in short written exercises and assignments. Students have the opportunity to meet with their instructor in tutorial sessions to gain insight into the revision process and further hone their stylistic techniques.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW303

Course Description:
This course will introduce students to the stylistic and thematic elements of poetry through the close reading and analysis of published poems by a diverse range of authors. Assignments will advance students’ skills through intensive attention to imagery, voice, setting, form, and narrative. Students will participate in in-class writing exercises and will be asked to turn in poems that draw from the techniques discussed in class. They will also have the opportunity to meet with their instructor in tutorial sessions to gain insight into the revision process and further hone their stylistic techniques.

Program:
Creative Writing

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG101

Course Description:
In English I, students explore the theme of identity and seek to answer the essential question, "To what extent is identity fixed or influenced?" This focus provides a platform for students to develop skills as critical thinkers, readers, and writers with various texts, including short stories, poetry, novels, essays, graphic novels, and plays. Throughout the course, written assignments cover summary-and-response, personal narrative, reflection, literary analysis, and research. Students will also have opportunities to complete creative projects and make artistic connections.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG201

Course Description:
In this course, students, in the fall semester, engage in an extensive study of the short story form, helping them to acquire a critical vocabulary and learn specifically about the literary elements of plot, character, setting, theme, style, tone, and point of view. The writing component focuses on literary analysis, with an emphasis on organization, structure, and thesis statement development. Regular vocabulary study is required. In the second semester, students study multiple or longer works by major authors as well as literary criticism. The writing component focuses on research, with students preparing a major documented research essay on a literary topic. Regular vocabulary study is once again required.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG301

Course Description:
English III introduces students to the strategies, tools, and resources necessary to become successful thinkers, readers, and writers while preparing for upper-level English electives and continued study after high school. Specifically, students practice close reading, analytical writing, and argumentative writing, all while gaining expertise in library and internet research. A key focus of the class is exploring the processes involved in generating, developing, and refining your thoughts and work.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
ENG343

Course Description:
This course option for the second semester of English III explores the liberating power of art for protest as well as self-expression, which in itself can be a form of protest. Students read novels (including a novel in verse), short stories, essays, and poetry. The readings are paired with examples of visual and performing arts such as music. Students are also invited to make their own artistic connections. Throughout the course, written assignments cover literary analysis, reflection, research, and creative writing. The end of the semester is reserved for drafting a college application essay.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
ENG309

Course Description:
This is a course for students who hunger for great literary art. If philosophy teaches us how to die, as Cicero believed, then literature teaches us how to live! The literature that we'll study in the course deals with the subject of women; in this late day and age it would seem that anyone with a modestly-evolved intellect could recognize the two most salient facts with regard to this subject: first, that women are and always have been at least as smart and capable as men, and second, that they have been given nothing close to the same respect or opportunities. Literature both reflects this subjugation and contributes to it. In all-too rare instances, it offers resistance.The works for this course offer resistance. Kate Chopin's celebrated short novel The Awakening and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House are both seminal works in the field of Women's Studies. Memoir and diary selections from authors such as Simone de Beauvoir and Virginia Woolf will provide more seminal thinking from well-established feminist writers, while Chimamanda Adichie's We Should All be Feminists echoes this thinking in a modern vernacular. Mariama Ba's masterful short novel So Long a Letter provides a kind of meditation on the difficulty of forging a life that stays true both to one's professional ambitions but also to the desire for lasting, abiding love.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
ENG339

Course Description:
This course option for the second semester of English III invites students to utilize the writing skills they have garnered to-date to write about a variety of artistic genres, including but not limited to visual arts, classical music, popular music, dance, theater, film, and creative writing. Students identify the essential elements necessary for writing about each particular artistic genre through playing the role of the observer, the interviewer, the researcher, and the audience member. While students experience some canonical works as subjects, current Interlochen performances and exhibits form the bulk of subject material. As students begin to consider their place in the world, they transition from writing broadly about art to writing about their own identities as artists, garnering skills in technical writing to market themselves in their post-secondary lives.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG430

Course Description:
This course will examine the history and literatures of the African Diaspora, highlighting the Black experience and its nuances across the African continent as well as the Americas and Caribbean. Students will explore the connections and influences these expansive cultures have had on global politics and literature.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG435

Course Description:
Civil disobedience and nonviolent resistance are hallmarks of the American Civil Rights Movement. In juxtaposition, The Black Power Movement emphasized self-defense, self-determinism, and perhaps a more Machiavellian approach to liberation. The actions and beliefs of these separate activists defined the march towards liberation from the 1950’s—1970’s. However, the revolution for Black liberation was not only fought with marches and picket signs; it was also fought through the written word, the paintbrush, and the stage. In this course, students will study the works of Black writers, philosophers, and other artists who used their artwork as a political device during the Black Arts Movement (1965-1975). In particular, students will delve into the respective works of James Baldwin, Nikki Giovanni, Ntozaki Shange, Amiri Baraka, and many others.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG427

Course Description:
The people of the Middle East become familiar to us through their oral and written traditions of powerful storytelling as rendered in contemporary short stories, graphic novels, poetry, film, essays, and novels. These various texts introduce the ancient and recent history and geography of the Middle East and North Africa. Authors invite us to share their characters' perspectives and form new understanding of longstanding regional conflicts. Guest speakers and optional local travel opportunities offer experiences with the region's cultures and religions. Students participate in dialectical discussion and writing activities, preparing them to create semester projects that demonstrate their new understanding of the art and peoples of this region of the world.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG425

Course Description:
This course invites students to explore the insider/outsider dynamic present in various social structures and how this dynamic impacts the creation of writing, art, and film. Students engage with various genres of literature, including music, film, fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction. Students focus primarily on how literature reflects the position of the outsider, specifically in terms of race, gender, sexuality, and socioeconomic status, in addition to how outsiders' work is perceived by others - both insiders and outsiders alike. Throughout the course, students gain an appreciation for the complexity of any rhetorical situation by studying the nuance involved in creating what we send out into the world.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG416

Course Description:
In an increasingly global culture, the need for awareness and appreciation of historical antecedents would seem to go without saying; unpacking the Western imperial impulse is foundational to an understanding of the relationship between the first and third worlds. In reading and discussing the works selected, students are acquainted with many issues that exist outside the mainstream of their comfortable North American lives: the devastating and continuing effects of colonialism, the marginalization of the "other" and the privileges of the elect.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
ENG429

Course Description:
In this course students will read and analyze queer scripts from the contemporary canon. In addition to analyzing new texts, students can expect to play with form as they write short scenes of their own, and to embody scripts as we move through specific moments in scenework. This is an English course exploring and analyzing intent and accessibility onstage, so everyone is welcome, regardless of previous experience in theatre on or offstage.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG431

Course Description:
Though it is true that Science Fiction is an art form that lends itself to escapism, it can also be said that many writers use the speculative and the fantastic to examine the tangible world more thoroughly. In this course, students will learn to identify the ways in which speculative elements can be used as a metaphor for contemporary social issues. Students will also explore the Science Fiction genre as an art form and a tool for liberation.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG412

Course Description:
Considering Shakespeare's plays as both enduring classics of literature and living theatrical experiences, students become acquainted with the vitality, versatility, and universality of the language. Each day, students watch recorded live London productions of Shakespeare's plays in community, an experience that introduces moments of questioning, observing and interpreting. Several short articles are assigned as independent reading, to which students respond in brief essays that are often completed during class, using the sources as a lens through which to view and understand how Shakespeare's plays are relevant to us in the 21st century.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG432

Course Description:
This course considers the history and development of the short story, as well as several different critical approaches to short fiction. Reading stories that are thematically connected, students analyze classics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century short fiction, and finally they explore stories that have been published within the past few years. Students hone their critical skills by reading great works of fiction by some of the world's finest authors, and they also have opportunities to pursue the study of authors and works according to their own interests.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
ENG428

Course Description:
Theatre of Disability is a course seeking to bring voices of writers with disabilities to the forefront of our narrative. Students will read work by writers with lived experience of disabilities in the many ways disabilities manifest. Throughout our explorations in this course students can expect to read new work across a variety of mediums with a special focus on new plays from the international canon. We will engage with many aspects of theatrical plays including narrative storytelling, movement work, tactile creation, and theatre of protest. This is an English course exploring and analyzing all of these aspects of plays, so everyone is welcome, regardless of previous experience in theatre on or offstage.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM110

Course Description:
By utilizing a variety of pre-cinema and hands-on techniques, students will explore ways of seeing animated movement and the world in new ways.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Fall

Course Number:
FNM115

Course Description:
Students will advance hands-on physical animation and digital techniques to develop self directed, faculty, or program wide project proposals with exploratory and experimental outcomes. Students will employ techniques already learned and new methodologies

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW351

Course Description:
In this course, we'll be exploring - and writing - the borderlands of poetry and poetics. In Experiments in Poetry, we'll begin by expanding our definition of what we mean when we say "formal" poetry. Forget the sonnet: we'll be writing poems in the form of dictionaries, ransom notes, and letters meant for people who can't write back. What forms can the poem take while still remaining a poem? How do we determine the shape a poem should take? In the second half of the course, we'll discuss the beauty and obsession of the long poem and the poetic sequence. What makes a subject ideal for a sustained poetic experiment? How does a writer examine a single subject from so many angles? We'll discuss these topics and others as we study poetic projects by writers like John Berryman, Lyn Hejinian, and Gabrielle Calvocoressi. From this base of knowledge, we'll plan, build, and workshop your own poetic experiments.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS332

Course Description:
Since the United States of America has existed, people of Asian ancestry have played a part in shaping itsgovernment, economy, and society. This course will examine these often overlooked and marginalizedstories through case studies from different periods of US history. In particular, students will investigate thecontributions Asian-Americans have made in the growth and evolution of US society, as well as analyzerepresentations from popular culture to understand how stereotypes of Asian Americans were created andoften perpetuated.In the latter half of the course, students will develop and explore their own research interests. Utilizinganalysis skills they developed in examining past periods of US history, students will highlight specific andcontemporary examples of the Asian American experience. Students will be asked to summarize andshare their learning with their classmates, in an attempt to more fully understand the infinite ways in which"American" and "Asian American" culture are linked and intertwined.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS331

Course Description:
Since the United States of America has existed, people of Asian ancestry have played a part in shaping itsgovernment, economy, and society. This course will examine these often overlooked and marginalizedstories through case studies from different periods of US history. In particular, students will investigate thecontributions Asian-Americans have made in the growth and evolution of US society, as well as analyzerepresentations from popular culture to understand how stereotypes of Asian Americans were created andoften perpetuated.In the latter half of the course, students will develop and explore their own research interests. Utilizinganalysis skills they developed in examining past periods of US history, students will highlight specific andcontemporary examples of the Asian American experience. Students will be asked to summarize andshare their learning with their classmates, in an attempt to more fully understand the infinite ways in which"American" and "Asian American" culture are linked and intertwined.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA150

Course Description:
In this course students will explore traditional and nontraditional approaches to the creation of cloth for functional or nonfunctional purposes. A primary focus will be placed on beginning/intermediate weaving and felting techniques. Additional techniques such as immersion dying, surface design on fabric, knitting, crochet, piece work, stitching, and creation of dimensional forms may be introduced in conjunction with alternative materials and found objects. Students will be introduced to the history of the medium and its current contemporary practices through examination of historical and contemporary works.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall

Course Number:
CRW337

Course Description:
Mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and everything in between—this course will explore perhaps the wiliest, most inexhaustible subject in a writer’s reserves: the family. What exactly is a family? What sorts of impacts does the “family unit” have on its constituents, and on society at large? How much of personalidentity is bound up in the familial? And how might we, as writers, effectively communicate the complexities of familial life on the page? Together, in pursuit of these questions, we will read Katherine Mansfield, Natalia Ginzburg, Dezső Kosztolányi, Jhumpa Lahiri, Maggie Nelson, Marilynne Robinson, Ocean Vuong, Justin Torres, and others. We will also experiment with multi-genre writing exercises along the way.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM051

Course Description:
This course introduces students to the mindful exploration of their identity in the arts. Students reflect on personal influences, mentors, and aspirations, synthesizing them into an Artist Statement. Forum challenges students to use the Artist Statement as a compass of values with which they examine their creative work in the attempt to keep it consistent with their ambitions, influences and priorities. Forum meetings are made regularly, by appointment, with Film Faculty Advisors/Yodas.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
FNM311

Course Description:
This course offers students an in-depth examination of film as an art form, analyzing specific elements of film to discover how they create cinematic language. Students focus on the theories of narrative structure, mise-en-scene, color, sound, space, and editing, and be able to identify how filmmakers use each element to communicate story, character, and theme.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM400

Course Description:
The Capstone project is a way to stretch and play with the skills learned in the Film and New Media division, applying them to new, unexplored territory, with in-depth research and practice in arts and academics. It is a pilgrimage of sorts, an agreement to embark on a difficult journey toward a clearly articulated, creative destination. The path should be surprising, challenging, and ripe for successes, failures, and growth. A response to the student's research/exploration, the Capstone outcome can take the form of new media, non-fiction or narrative production, or scriptwriting. No matter the medium/format, the Capstone student is required to present a project proposal for faculty review, demonstrating plans for presentation, execution, and a public performance of the project, upon its completion.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
FNM306

Course Description:
This course rotates topic yearly, giving students an opportunity to immerse themselves in a specific movement, genre, or area in cinema. Critical examination of the subject may be explored through screenings, readings, discussion, and written analysis.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM203

Course Description:
This course explores the historical eras of cinema from its birth in the late 1800s through current trends, focusing on Hollywood's formation and transformation as well as major international movements. Students gain an understanding of how technological advances, business practices, and cultural influences have changed the art of filmmaking, and how cinemas of different countries have influenced each other.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI408

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to Forensic Science. Basic ideas of Forensic Science such as observational analysis, fingerprinting, spectrum analysis, blood spatter, document analysis, ballistics and firearms, are introduced, defined, and shown how they may be used to solve a variety of actual crime scenes. Students should expect to be challenged to complete and solve case studies involving crime scenes. The course features labs and hands-on activities as well as a variety of media that facilitate the understanding of forensics. Overarching themes in this class will be deductive reasoning and problem solving.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW358

Course Description:
In this course students will become conversant in the rich, varied landscape of both traditional and new poetic forms. Each week we will explore a specific verse type or modal form (e.g. pantoum, ghazal, american sonnet, burning haibun, villanelle, contrapuntal, golden shovel, nonce). We will work in and around various meters, in and with rhyme and other sonic/musical elements, as well as with the complexities of free verse. In the end students should feel more confident of their craft, more flexible and alert to formal choices (especially those of repetition and variation), more attuned to the interesting frictions between sentence and line, and more aware of disequilibrium and stability in resolution. Students will submit a final portfolio of their formal experiments. 

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FRE101

Course Description:
The principal goal in French I is to communicate in French. Various interactive activities play an important role in class. French films, French Table and tutorials provide opportunities to practice and to sample francophone cultures. Students gain an understanding of basic elements of French culture, along with a foundation in grammar.

Program:
World Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FRE201

Course Description:
The goal of this course is to communicate in French by incorporating four communicative competencies, which are incorporated into daily activities. Students have many opportunities to practice the French language and to sample francophone cultures.

Program:
World Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FRE301

Course Description:
The goal in French III is to extend fluency. This class is taught entirely in French, with students being expected to express difficult concepts in French. Students begin an exploration of French literature, reading Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Jean-Paul Sartre and other extracts. Poetry and songs are also used as a vehicle for comprehension. Advanced grammatical concepts are addressed. Films, French Table, and general conversation play an increasingly important role.

Program:
World Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FRE304

Course Description:
The goal in French IV/V is to extend fluency. This class is taught entirely in French, with students being expected to express increasingly difficult concepts in French. Students begin an exploration of French literature, reading Jean-Paul Sartre, Molière and other authors according to the interests of the class. Poetry and songs are also used as a vehicle for comprehension. Advanced grammatical concepts are addressed. Films, French Table, and general conversation play an increasingly important role.

Program:
World Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS248

Course Description:
The second semester of Fretboard Harmony is devoted to Arrangements, Transcriptions and Tablature. A large portion of the guitar repertoire consists of arrangements and transcriptions of music originally written for other instruments, for example J.S. Bach's lute suites and Isaac Albeniz' solo piano works are considered cornerstones of the guitar repertoire. This course examines the depth and breadth of arrangements, transcriptions and intabulations that are ubiquitous throughout the guitar repertoire, and explores the variety of approaches for making successful guitar transcriptions.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS247

Course Description:
The first semester of Fretboard Harmony covers the fundamentals of the guitar fretboard and some advanced skills used by modern guitarists to negotiate the fretboard. Topics include sight-reading, intervals, triads and extensions; fingering and score editing approaches from 19th Century pedagogues (such as Sor and Aguado), the Segovia approach and contemporary editions.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA309

Course Description:
In Fundamentals of Design, students learn the skills required to research, analyze, and communicate theatrical design ideas in sets, lights and costumes. Students gain experience in the basic graphic techniques used by design professionals including freehand sketching, thumbnail drawing, figure drawing, watercolor painting, drafting in scale, and mechanical perspective drawing. Students study design process and objectives, as well as collaboration, along with contemporary design and designers.

Program:
Design and Production

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE110

Course Description:
When mixing a song, mix engineers must take a lot of different elements into consideration. They must think of the entire process in terms of balance, organization, creativity and excitement. In this class, students learn different steps of the mixing process, including mix preparation and editing, setting levels, panning, adding effects such as reverb, delay, eq, compression, using automation, and master fader processing. Students also learn the basics of mastering.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective

Course Number:
DAN101

Course Description:
General Dance provides a dance overview for students from other arts areas. Students become acquainted to basic technique in ballet, modern, and jazz. No previous dance experience is necessary. This course may be used for Physical Education credit.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN102

Course Description:
General Dance provides a dance overview for students from other arts areas. Students become acquainted to basic technique in ballet, modern, and jazz. Students should take level I (first semester) prior to level II (second semester).

Program:
Dance

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MTH210

Course Description:
In this course, students engage in investigations and activities. Students learn Euclidean Geometry such as deductive proof, properties of polygons, circles, similar/congruent triangles, parallel lines, area and volume, the Pythagorean Theorem, basic concepts of right triangle trigonometry, and general ideas of transformations. Students use computer technology and traditional geometry tools in all investigations. Students apply geometry concepts to various arts areas within the course.

Program:
Mathematics

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS063

Course Description:
Guitar ensemble meets as a large group and in smaller settings. The literature includes compositions written for guitar ensembles and arrangements of pieces originally written for other settings, ranging from solo instruments such as piano to full orchestras. The ensemble brings individual skills to bear effectively on a collaborative effort, resulting in beauty of execution and expression along with pride for the members in the ability to communicate as one with an audience.

Program:
Guitar

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS245

Course Description:
This semester covers the repertoire, personalities and significant historical events that shaped the progression of the lute, theorbo, baroque guitar and 19th Century guitar from the Renaissance to 1900. Topics include tablature and notation practices, instrument design, performance practice, ornamentation, and major artistic movements from the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS246

Course Description:
This semester covers the repertoire, personalities and significant historical events that influenced the progression of the guitar from 1900 to the Present Day. Beginning with the "Torres" model guitar and continuing through electric guitar designs and modern electronics, this course examines a tumultuous historical period that shaped (and in some cases was shaped by) innovations in the guitar world.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA344

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the captivating world of musical theater history, journeying from Gilbert and Sullivan's groundbreaking operettas to the end of Broadway's Golden Age. Students will delve into iconic works, innovative creators, and transformative moments that shaped this vibrant art form and left a lasting impact on the cultural landscape.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS313

Course Description:
In this course, students examine several films that depict historical events from around the world. These films are analyzed for their historical accuracy. In other words, students need to answer the question, did the filmmakers "get it right?" In addition, where the filmmakers strayed from the "true" historical path, students will analyze why they chose to do so and if it seems like an appropriate decision. Finally, students will have substantial input as to which films we study. The only caveat to this is that the pieces must be about non-American historical events.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW334

Course Description:
Ideal for Creative Writing, Visual Arts, and Interdisciplinary Arts students, this course explores the fascinating intersections between visual arts and creative writing. We will read/view + generate/workshop a wide variety of hybrid work. Topics may include graphic narrative/comics, erasure, collage, ekphrasis, typography, concrete/visual poetry, photo essay, automatic writing, projection, installation, street art, and the artists' book. Course will culminate in an open-guideline final project inspired by one or more of the artists/forms we examine.

Program:
Creative Writing

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA406

Course Description:
Derived from Viola Spolin's improvisation games, Improvisation is a class designed for the actor to explore the freedom of the unknown. Using improv games, short-form improv, and long forms, actors will hone listening skills and learn to trust their intuition while they play. Improvisation invites actors to prioritize teamwork over individual satisfaction, and create new stories, worlds, characters and sketches using audience participation.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
INT101

Course Description:
Students participate in mentored studies in creative work, focusing on their chosen discipline(s). Each self-directed creative project culminates in a workshop for an in-house presentation each December. In the second semester, projects are developed and refined for presentation in the Interdisciplinary Arts Showcase.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS411

Course Description:
This is a performance ensemble of singing actors specializing in classical vocal repertoire. The Opera Workshop program, in conjunction with the other coursework offered in the voice major, provides students with the training and experiences that will guide them to be successful singers in the college music program and beyond. Students participate in a variety of performances throughout the year, including both in-class and public performances, and masterclasses with guest artists and teachers.

Program:
Voice

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
INT115

Course Description:
This class explores the intersection among arts practice, social change, history and current cultural movements. Students explore these intersections through readings and research, projects and group assignments. Open to all majors.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS323

Course Description:
The goal of this humanities-style course is to allow students to explore issues related to intolerance, bigotry, and genocide as thinkers, researchers, writers, and presenters. This course examines the issues of race, religion, gender, and attitudes towards "the other" in the U.S. and globally. The course begins with an introductory unit aimed at investigating the process of "othering" from a variety of perspectives within a range of different media. During this unit, students read a selection of print pieces (newspaper articles, poems, and academic essays), view works of visual art, and listen to a selection of songs and podcasts. As a class, students explore topics such as LGBTQ+ rights and indigenous decimation. Students are encouraged to bring questions and concerns about current events to be incorporated into the curriculum.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SOC102

Course Description:
This course offers a broad and general introduction to sociology. Foundational sociological theories are examined. This course includes discussions of fundamental concepts and critical thinking about society and culture relevant to a diverse audience. Topics may include, but are not limited to: culture, the socialization process, social stratification, collective behavior, social institutions, and social change.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA343

Course Description:
In this course, students are introduced to the work of African-American playwrights including August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Lynne Nottage, and Dominique Morisseau, among others.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA343

Course Description:
In this course, students are introduced to the work of African-American playwrights including August Wilson, Lorraine Hansberry, Ntozake Shange, Lynne Nottage, and Dominique Morisseau, among others.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE091

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the skills and concepts fundamental to live sound reinforcement, audio recording, and audio editing. This is a hands-on course. Theory and application are introduced simultaneously, and projects reflect the interests and disciplines unique to each participant. This is a cross-curricular course available to all students.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE091

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the skills and concepts fundamental to live sound reinforcement, audio recording, and audio editing. This is a hands-on course. Theory and application are introduced simultaneously, and projects reflect the interests and disciplines unique to each participant. This is a cross-curricular course available to all students.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE091

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the skills and concepts fundamental to live sound reinforcement, audio recording, and audio editing. This is a hands-on course. Theory and application are introduced simultaneously, and projects reflect the interests and disciplines unique to each participant. This is a cross-curricular course available to all students.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA105

Course Description:
Introduction to Musical Theater Voice is a comprehensive voice class designed to introduce students to the fundamentals of vocal technique, healthy singing practices, styles and genres, and other skills necessary for musical theater singing.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW305

Course Description:
This course introduces the concepts of writing for the screen from an analytical and creative viewpoint. We will explore all aspects of the screenplay including structure and format, character, setting, conflict, theme, tone, dialogue and subtext, and seek to gain an understanding of how to use the tools of the filmmaker to create cinematic language and write visually. Students are also given an introduction to some of the professional aspects of screenwriting and available resources including the art of pitching stories.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS324

Course Description:
The goal of this humanities-style course is to allow students to explore issues related to Latin America. Students work as thinkers, researchers, writers, and presenters. During this class, students read a selection of print pieces (newspaper articles, poems, and academic essays), view works of visual art, and listen to a selection of songs and podcasts. Students explore social, economic, and political topics such as the encomienda system, foreign interventions, and the role of the Catholic church. Students are encouraged to bring questions and concerns to be incorporated into the curriculum. This course is intended to let students dig deep into important issues in Latin America, past and present, while exploring the arts and practicing key skills of critical thinking and expression.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI501

Course Description:
Students explore the biological sciences from the macro end of biology (ecology and evolution) to the micro end of biology (cells and organelles). Students who successfully complete this course receive university credit from Indiana University. Students survey the biological sciences at the college level, with an emphasis on how the content applies to human beings. The syllabus, laboratories and assessments are defined by Indiana University. At the university level, this course is intended for non-science majors; at Interlochen, it is especially intended for seniors and post-graduates who seek to leave the Academy with transferable college credit. The pre-requisites are high school courses in biology, chemistry, and Algebra II. Students who complete this course may select to earn both high school and college credit, transcripted by Indiana University and transferable to any other college or university.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
HIS501

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the evolution of American society: political, economic, social structure; racial and ethnic groups; sex roles; indigenous peoples, inter-American, and world diplomacy of the United States; evolution of ideology, war, territorial expansion, industrialization, urbanization, international events and their impact on American history. Students who complete this course may select to earn both high school and college credit, transcripted by Indiana University and transferrable to many colleges and universities. More information can be found here.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG502

Course Description:
This course helps students develop critical skills essential to participation in the interpretive process. Through class discussion and focused writing assignments, this course introduces the premises and motives of literary analysis and critical methods associated with historical, generic, and/or cultural concerns. Students who complete this course may select to earn both high school and college credit, transcripted by Indiana University and transferrable to many colleges and universities.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
ENG501

Course Description:
This course provides students instruction and practice in the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills required in college. Emphasis is on written assignments that require synthesis, analysis, and argument based on sources. Students who complete this course may select to earn both high school and college credit, transcripted by Indiana University and transferrable to many colleges and universities.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
MUS233

Course Description:
Jazz Class Piano will focus on skill building necessary for all musicians of all instrumental focuses to learn jazz. This class will use the piano as a tool to develop skills in chordal theory, aural skills for melody, harmony, and rhythm, as well as the foundations of improvisation.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS061

Course Description:
Jazz Orchestra and Combo students will study and perform repertoire from across the spectrum of Jazz with a focus on listening, playing in balance, sight reading, improvisation, and swing. Both ensembles will have opportunities for on and off-campus performances with guest artists from around the world. Jazz Orchestra and Combo rosters will be on a performance rotation to allow students broader experiences. Audition is required for placement.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS209

Course Description:
Jazz History is a non-chronological thematic examination of 20th century Jazz musicians through commercial recordings, liner notes, press coverage, interviews, and oral histories. Attention is given to contextualizing Jazz within the broader scope of Black American Music and the recording industry at large.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS232

Course Description:
Jazz History is a chronological study of jazz beginning with its origins in African and African-American folk music music, through the most recent trends. Emphasis is placed on learning the subtle differences between the various eras and styles associated with jazz (New Orleans, Swing, Bebop, etc.). There is a considerable amount of time devoted to listening and discussing recordings by important jazz stylists. Additionally the students gain an awareness of the cultural events throughout the 20th century that affected jazz and the musicians who performed it. 

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS208

Course Description:
Jazz Improvisation explores the role of form, rhythm, and harmony in various styles of improvised music. The curriculum will be created cooperatively by the teacher and students over the course of the semester.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS307

Course Description:
Jazz Improvisation is divided into two sections, beginning and advanced. In this class, students learns to apply the theory of improvisation to the instrument in order to successfully improvise over a variety of song forms. The application of scales, chords, scale and melodic patterns to the chosen music, and transcribing solos from recordings form the basis by which the student learns to improvise.

Program:
Jazz

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS305

Course Description:
Jazz Improvisation explores the role of form, rhythm, and harmony in various styles of improvised music. The curriculum will be created cooperatively by the teacher and students over the course of the semester.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS307B

Course Description:
Jazz Improvisation is divided into two sections, beginning and advanced. In this class, students learns to apply the theory of improvisation to the instrument in order to successfully improvise over a variety of song forms. The application of scales, chords, scale and melodic patterns to the chosen music, and transcribing solos from recordings form the basis by which the student learns to improvise.

Program:
Jazz

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS308

Course Description:
Jazz Improvisation is divided into two sections, beginning and advanced. In this class, students learns to apply the theory of improvisation to the instrument in order to successfully improvise over a variety of song forms. The application of scales, chords, scale and melodic patterns to the chosen music, and transcribing solos from recordings form the basis by which the student learns to improvise.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS059

Course Description:
Jazz Orchestra and Combo students will study and perform repertoire from across the spectrum of Jazz with a focus on listening, playing in balance, sight reading, improvisation, and swing. Both ensembles will have opportunities for on and off-campus performances with guest artists from around the world. Jazz Orchestra and Combo rosters will be on a performance rotation to allow students broader experiences. Audition is required for placement.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS415

Course Description:
Keyboard Skills is the partner class with Piano Literature that together make up the Piano Seminar for senior piano majors. In this class students will harmonize, improvise, create pieces out of harmonic skeletons, derive harmonic skeletons from other pieces, play by ear, sing while they play, learn to read and realize Figured Bass, chord symbols, vocal and orchestra scores, C clefs, and will generally improve their sight reading. The class will start out with a fast and intensive review of basic scale, interval, and chord skills before moving on quickly to more advanced topics. Students will explore and challenge the intersection of their aural, tactile, visual, and conceptual skills.

Program:
Piano

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN120

Course Description:
In this class, students will learn human anatomy, kinesiology as well as Pilates, Yoga, Functional Range Conditioning, and restorative tools to avoid and recover from injury. The students will study the principles of mechanics and anatomy in relation to human movement.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall

Course Number:
INT053

Course Description:
This class examines the organizational and personnel structure of arts organizations. Positions and work of individual functions within an arts organization are studied utilizing Interlochen Center for the Arts as a model. Academy instructors and staff bring their perspective and expertise to the classroom as students explore the processes and individuals that make an arts organization run and grow. In addition, this class produces the Interdisciplinary Arts Division performance series Academy Café, an open mic performance series held throughout each semester, which is open to students from all divisions.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM303

Course Description:
This class is a hands-on introduction to skills and techniques in cinematic location lighting. Through discussions, guest artists, demonstrations, and class exercises, this class explores the artful use of light, with emphasis on aesthetics, exposure, instrument placement, rigging, safe use, and motivation.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW312

Course Description:
Our primary objective in Literary Publications is the production of the creative writing department’s annual online literary journal, the Interlochen Review. This is a collaborative enterprise that will require dedication, organization, flexibility, professionalism and, most importantly, TEAMWORK. It is absolutely essential that you treat each other with generosity and respect. Listen to each other, make sure all voices are heard, respect one another’s views, and understand that working on an editorial team will often necessitate compromise. It is also essential that everyone follow through on their individual responsibilities with thoughtfulness and attention to detail.In addition to producing the Interlochen Review, you will be creating and presenting your own Dream Journals using Squarespace, a website builder; researching publications and submitting your own writing to various journals and magazines; thoughtfully preparing questions for several Zoom sessions with editors of literary journals, and helping to produce the Festival Chapbook.You will frequently be working independently or in small groups, and it is my expectation that you will stay focused and on task at all times. On occasions when you are between tasks, you will have the opportunity to work on researching publications and submitting writing for publication.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
ENG401

Course Description:
In this course, students will investigate texts which respond, adapt, comment upon, or reimagine established works from the literary canon. Students will familiarize themselves with the notion of counter-story telling, the manner by which a writer can use the scaffolding of a previously known story and reimagine a story with a new focus.

Program:
English

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
THA311

Course Description:
This course introduces and explores present theory and application of two-dimensional and three-dimensional makeup for the stage. This course is structured as a lecture/demonstration and lab employing the principles of stage makeup, the variety of materials available, and the application of these materials. The course is designed to help the student (both actor and makeup artist) build a working knowledge of broad-based application procedures, materials and techniques, and the principles of characterization allowing for the development, planning, and execution of character-based makeup designs.

Program:
Design and Production

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
INT060

Course Description:
In this year-long course, students in this class will learn to design and execute original projects while exploring intersectional issues around identity, collaboration, and group process in ways that the artists can use to engage in future work across disciplines. 

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN205

Course Description:
The curriculum for Male Dance Technique is designed as a supplement to ballet technique and focuses on specific information for the male dancer: virtuoso technique, jumps, turns, and building the strength necessary to properly execute vocabulary of today. Emphasis is placed on implementation, coordination and a disciplined work ethic.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
THA316

Course Description:
This course provides students with the ability to create a three-dimensional character and theatre by using the technique of MASK to create physicality and expressive emotion. The course utilizes the techniques and methodologies of Neutral and larval masks by Jacques Lecoq and moves through to the work in commedia dell'arte. Students create pieces of theatre (verbal and nonverbal) that will be infused with discipline, instinct and technique. The work culminates weekly in a Performance Lab where students devise/create a world and character, utilizing these techniques in an ensemble setting.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
MUS107

Course Description:
While listening to vinyl recordings spanning from the 1960's to the present, students explore and examine music in the book series 33 1/3. Class discussions surround what is highlighted in the book series, examining each recording's significance, recording process, writing, performance, lyrics, arrangement, and more.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS107

Course Description:
While listening to vinyl recordings spanning from the 1960's to the present, students explore and examine music in the book series 33 1/3. Class discussions surround what is highlighted in the book series, examining each recording's significance, recording process, writing, performance, lyrics, arrangement, and more.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS155

Course Description:
In this course, students will have the opportunity to create and play music for ballet, character dance and modern dance. Depending on the student's interest or ability, they will be involved in composing, arranging and performing music in a variety of idioms for the group. In addition to hands-on accompanying, students will watch videos and discuss how music and dance come together to make a unique work of art.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MPE099

Course Description:
In this course and critical listening lab, students explore various concepts and technical skills central to the field of Music Production and Engineering. Students learn how the field of Music Production & Engineering has changed over time, share projects, and receive and give feedback, with a focus on growth and improvement.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE115

Course Description:
What is MIDI? Who developed it, and why? How is it useful to production? Music Programming and Track Creation gives the student an historical as well as a functional background in MIDI protocol. In this course, students learn how to program and record MIDI information into their DAWs to create arrangements with synthesizers and virtual instruments. They also learn loop-based production as well as sample choice and placement. In addition, students learn the rudiments of subtractive, wavetable and FM synthesis.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
THA308

Course Description:
This course introduces students to the wide variety of dance styles used in Musical Theatre. Students participate in numbers from musicals across multiple genres, gaining valuable experience across a wide range of choreography.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA212

Course Description:
This course explores musicality, movement, and acting values through musical theatre repertoire. Students learn music and choreography from selected songs and develop a revue that is performed at the end of the semester. The revue will comprise several styles and genres. The course is designed with an ensemble-based mindset. 

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA328B

Course Description:
This course provides individual voice lessons to Theatre Majors with a talent for and interest in Musical Theatre. Students will learn important vocal techniques for optimum performance and receive instruction on repertoire from the musical theatre canon.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
THA328

Course Description:
This course provides training in the areas of vocal technique, musicianship, artistry and repertoire within group and one-to-one contexts to students in the Musical Theatre track. Students will further their vocal development across a variety of musical styles required of the singing-actor via flow/resonance based practices and vocal cross-training techniques.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS303

Course Description:
Topics covered are hymn playing, improvisation, practice skills, organ tuning, and performance skills. Studio classes, master classes and regular performances at local churches are a large part of this course.

Program:
Organ

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS315

Course Description:
This course involves an examination of the following concepts: psychological and sociological studies related to an individual's party identification and participation in the electoral process; the history of suffrage requirements in the U.S.; the positions of the Democrat and Republican parties; and the various forms of nominating and electoral procedures involving local to national candidates.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN207

Course Description:
The Pas de Deux curriculum is designed to help dancers learn the art and skill of partnering. Use of the hands for men, finding core support, balance and use of weight for coordinated movement quality are addressed. Students acquire partnering technique with the ability to work cohesively for maximum artistic and technical results.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS227

Course Description:
This course explores popular songs from the past in a performance-focused setting. Students are placed into bands and work together to match the tone, style, and feel of an original recording, while presenting the song as a polished performance during class time. Students learn how to hear and delegate parts, how to rehearse as a band, and how to realize a performance that is audience-focused and enjoyable to watch. This class is required of all songwriting students unless permission has been obtained from the Chair of Contemporary Music. This class serves as a pre-requisite for auditioning as an instrumentalist for the Popular Music Ensemble.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS227

Course Description:
This course explores popular songs from the past in a performance-focused setting. Students are placed into bands and work together to match the tone, style, and feel of an original recording, while presenting the song as a polished performance during class time. Students learn how to hear and delegate parts, how to rehearse as a band, and how to realize a performance that is audience-focused and enjoyable to watch. This class is required of all songwriting students unless permission has been obtained from the Chair of Contemporary Music. This class serves as a pre-requisite for auditioning as an instrumentalist for the Popular Music Ensemble.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS105

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the following questions: How much do you know about how you perform? Are you effective outside the technical skills of execution? What makes the audience want to keep coming back to watch you? Through self evaluation, peer feedback, and teacher guidance, students dig deeply into what challenges and strengths they have in their ability to perform. Topics include the self editor, presence, intention, the role of the audience, and how to get ready to have a healthy, positive performance experience. This course introduces positive performance practices. This class also serves as a college audition and prep course during the fall semester.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA410

Course Description:
Students focus on various techniques for bringing characters to unique physical life in rehearsals and performances, with emphasis on exploring the techniques of Michael Chekhov, Eugene Vakhtangov, Anne Bogart, Tina Landau, Augusto Boal, Moni Yakim, Viola Spolin, and others.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI301

Course Description:
This is an introductory physics course designed to help students use logic and the scientific method to better understand the world around them. Students learn Kinematics, Newtonian physics, special theory of relativity, basic quantum mechanics, light, electricity and magnetism, waves and sound, and more. Students conduct experiments and see the principles of Physics through their observations and apply them to real world situations in their own lives.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS417

Course Description:
Piano Literature is a required class for senior piano majors. The class meets twice per week. Topics include how significant works in the keyboard repertoire are written and how they evolved from the work of their predecessors; the various styles of performance practice; and review of each of the four eras of keyboard music--Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and 20th centuries.

Program:
Piano

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
DAN301

Course Description:
This pilates-based conditioning class offers knowledge for gaining and maintaining overall body fitness and injury prevention. It teaches safe performance of movement and exercise in a progressive approach and offers an opportunity to improve or maintain a high level of fitness through the application of conditioning principles. This class offers a basic understanding of the concepts of alignment, centering, breathing, stabilization, mobilization, and balance. Non-impact, whole-body conditioning mat exercises based on the work of fitness pioneer Joseph Pilates are designed to develop body awareness, improve posture, and enhance muscle recruitment. The mat work increases core strength, builds muscle tone, and improves coordination, balance, and flexibility. The mat can be modified to various fitness levels so that each student will work at the appropriate level.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
CRW336

Course Description:
From old worlds to new, from myth and magic to the absolutely monstrous, this course will teach students how to shape the landscape of a new work and how to populate it with unexpected characters. Students will engage with classic and contemporary playwrights, poets, essayists and more as we track monsters through past and present. Combining analysis and creativity, students will be given the chance to create monsters of their own while continuing an exploration of the motif of the monster throughout narrative history. Mapping the Monster will challenge our contemporary reliance on the monster as the symbolic 'other,' and seek to elevate students' understanding of the shape of the unknown onstage

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
CRW335

Course Description:
This course explores the transformative power of speculation through the question 'what if?' Throughout the semester students will discover how the theatrical narrative can call an audience to action through creativity and curiosity. With an intersectional focus on marginalized voices students will explore contemporary topics alongside contemporary plays. Students will learn the importance of engaging tools like plasticity, puppetry, and ensemble as we move throughout symbolic and surrealist landscapes. Students will work on crafting their own writing while diving into a detailed exploration of the works of playwrights Quiara Hudes, Hansol Jung, Steve Yockey, Nathan Alan Davis and more. The Magic If will equip students to engage the power they hold to reshape the world through their own voices and writing.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
DAN203

Course Description:
The pointe curriculum is designed to build the strength and technique necessary to properly execute ballet and ballet-based movement on pointe. Focusing on how to stand on pointe correctly, use of the legs and feet and an appropriate and challenging vocabulary, students gain strength, technique and the cohesive fluidity required to execute classical ballet movement.

Program:
Dance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS313

Course Description:
Students may audition to perform in various Popular Music Ensembles. These ensembles perform rock and roll, pop, and other contemporary styles, serving as the standing band for the Singer-Songwriter program.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS313

Course Description:
Students may audition to perform in various Popular Music Ensembles. These ensembles perform rock and roll, pop, and other contemporary styles, serving as the standing band for the Singer-Songwriter program.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
INT055

Course Description:
In this course, students engage in the supervised development of materials for writing, mixed media, and management portfolios and resumes. Students participate in workshops in presentation and interview techniques, and learn standard industry business practices, including the basics of unions and contracts. Students also receive arts career mentorship and assistance with college application preparation.

Program:
Interdisciplinary Arts

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM207

Course Description:
This course is designed to guide students toward a clear understanding of digital workflow and the essential techniques used in narrative film editing. Exercises help students organize post-production assets. Students apply creative strategies with their cuts by paying close attention to sequence, tone, rhythm and/or collision of images and sound to clarify and heighten their visual story's meaning.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Fall

Course Number:
MTH450

Course Description:
This course is designed to serve students who are preparing for Calculus or further work in mathematics. As a pre-calculus course, it offers an analytical, graphical and numerical approach to understanding polynomials, exponential functions, logarithms, and a wide variety of trigonometry topics. Students also learn polar graphs, conic sections, matrices, sequences, and series. Real life applications and data interpretation are integral parts of this course of study.

Program:
Mathematics

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS017

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS019

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS045

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Composition

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS045

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS007

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS013

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
MUS009

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Guitar

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS011

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS025

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
MUS033

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Organ

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS029

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective

Course Number:
MUS031

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Piano

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS047

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS023

Course Description:
This course is designed to help trumpet players learn to play in an efficient manner, with a great sound in all musical styles. Emphasis on the musicians core fundamentals, sound production, scales/modes, flexibility, multiple tonguing, finger technique, practice techniques, transposition, sight reading and range are developed in accordance to the individual students needs.The course is tailored to fit the individual trumpeters needs, strengthening the individuals challenges in regards to playing the trumpet.

Program:
Classical Performance

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience

Course Number:
MUS039

Course Description:
This course prepares students with the fundamental basics required to launch a successful career in music. Emphasis is given to conservatory and music university audition preparation; however, equal standards are applied for students who apply to academic institutions. Students learn an efficient and sustainable method of performance proving the skills for a lifelong connection with music.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS001

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS001

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS035

Course Description:
The Private Lesson is individualized and tailored to the level, background, and needs of each student. It stresses a solid foundation in technical skills and covers a wide range of literature. Private study includes studio classes which provide students an opportunity to perform for their peers in an informal setting.

Program:
Voice

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE302

Course Description:
This class is a comprehensive look at the basics of using a Pro Tools system for audio production. Students will learn to build sessions that include multitrack recordings of live instruments, MIDI sequences, and virtual instruments. Through hands-on exercises and projects, students will develop essential techniques for recording, editing, and mixing in Pro Tools, the industry-standard Digital Audio Workstation.Interlochen is an official Avid Learning Partner, and at the end of the course, students are encouraged to take the Pro Tools ALA certification, an online test that is intended to stand in for the Pro Tools 101 course. Completion of the certification allows students to skip that class and enroll directly into the second level of Pro Tools instruction (known to Avid Learning Partners as the Pro Tools 110 course).

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Spring

Course Number:
MPE201

Course Description:
In Production Lab, each Music Production & Engineering student receives small-group specialized production and audio engineering instruction related to their key projects.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA262

Course Description:
Public Art is an increasingly important genre for artists to engage with their communities and is monetarily supported by 28 state policies through the Percent for Art initiative. In this class, students will explore murals, outdoor sculptures and various other methods of creating public art. Students will learn about historical and contemporary public art and explore how the impact of bringing artwork to people in public spaces is different than relying on the intentional audience that visits a gallery. By evolving their traditional studio practice, students will consider how factors such as environment, scale, function, audience and public participation affect the design and perception of their artwork. Through direct hands-on projects, students will learn to work collaboratively with other artists and professionals in other industries, such as administrators, carpenters, fabricators, architects, etc. Students will learn the professional practice of developing and presenting project proposals to a jury and formal calls for public art. Student proposals will include project planning, budget outlines, production schedule, site and context research, conceptual development, statement of intent, physical and graphic representations of outcomes, digital 3D models, or other modes of presentation. These professional strategies build leadership skills and provide students with the tools necessary to aid them in their careers. This class will take trips to various locations to see public art and fabricators.

Program:
Visual Arts

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS108

Course Description:
In this class, we learn more advanced principles and techniques for recording modern music. We analyze and discuss songs, instrumentation, sounds, effects, and other aspects of recordings to better learn how to arrange and record original material.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI314

Course Description:
This course gives students a first-hand glimpse into modern agriculture, using lessons and hands-on activities that bring to life critical issues in sustainability, the science behind farming, organic farming principles, and entrepreneurship. In this course, students investigate more deeply the importance of soil health, soil types, basic chemistry as applied to soil science, weather trends, impacts on modern agriculture, and the impact of erosion. Students explore botany, understanding the biology, structure, life cycle, and growth needs of plants, with emphasis on the harvest cycle of plants. Students learn about plant reproduction, pollination, fertilization, and the impact of invasive plants in native habitats in our area. The role of the nitrogen cycle, composting, aquaponics, land and water conservation, and climate change are interwoven threads recurring throughout the course.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SCI313

Course Description:
This course gives students a first-hand glimpse into modern agriculture, using lessons and hands-on activities that bring to life critical issues in sustainability, the science behind farming, organic farming principles, and entrepreneurship. In this course, students investigate more deeply the importance of soil health, soil types, basic chemistry as applied to soil science, weather trends, impacts on modern agriculture, and the impact of erosion. Students explore botany, understanding the biology, structure, life cycle, and growth needs of plants, with emphasis on the harvest cycle of plants. Students learn about plant reproduction, pollination, fertilization, and the impact of invasive plants in native habitats in our area. The role of the nitrogen cycle, composting, aquaponics, land and water conservation, and climate change are interwoven threads recurring throughout the course.

Program:
Science

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA111

Course Description:
In Sculptural Forms, students explore visual and physical concepts and processes such as form, volume, plane, line, space, texture, and surface. Students gain experience with a diverse selection of sculptural processes including addition (construction or fabrication), subtraction (carving), manipulation (modeling), and substitution (casting). Students explore a variety of methods such as found objects and installation. Contemporary and traditional issues related to sculpture and design are explored through assigned readings, personal research, class discussion, critiques, and individual projects. Students are required to work proficiently in their sourcebooks and develop their ideas through course-related research.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HUM300

Course Description:
Humanities, Social Justice, and the Arts is an interdisciplinary, humanities-style course built with the following goal at its heart: to allow students to explore issues related to social justice while honing their skills as thinkers, researchers, writers, and presenters. The course opens with an introductory unit aimed at investigating a complex and charged subject from a variety of perspectives within a range of different media. During this unit, students read a selection of print pieces (newspaper articles, poems, and academic essays), view works of visual art, listen to a selection of songs and podcasts, and watch a film. At the conclusion of this unit, students propose a research project they pursue for the duration of the course. To complete the research project, students identify an issue tied to social justice, evaluate sources addressing the issue, synthesize the information they collect, and present an evidence-based argument on the issue. The culminating project for the course asks students to craft a persuasive creation (a video, a piece of music, a work of visual art, etc) intended to persuade an audience to accept the position the student presented in their argument paper. The goal of this project is to allow students the chance to engage in the process of social justice awareness or activism. This course is intended to let students dive deeply into important social issues while exploring the arts and practicing key skills of critical thinking and expression.

Program:
English

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HUM300

Course Description:
Humanities, Social Justice, and the Arts is an interdisciplinary, humanities-style course built with the following goal at its heart: to allow students to explore issues related to social justice while honing their skills as thinkers, researchers, writers, and presenters. The course opens with an introductory unit aimed at investigating a complex and charged subject from a variety of perspectives within a range of different media. During this unit, students read a selection of print pieces (newspaper articles, poems, and academic essays), view works of visual art, listen to a selection of songs and podcasts, and watch a film. At the conclusion of this unit, students propose a research project they pursue for the duration of the course. To complete the research project, students identify an issue tied to social justice, evaluate sources addressing the issue, synthesize the information they collect, and present an evidence-based argument on the issue. The culminating project for the course asks students to craft a persuasive creation (a video, a piece of music, a work of visual art, etc) intended to persuade an audience to accept the position the student presented in their argument paper. The goal of this project is to allow students the chance to engage in the process of social justice awareness or activism. This course is intended to let students dive deeply into important social issues while exploring the arts and practicing key skills of critical thinking and expression.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA302

Course Description:
This course is designed to link vocal and dance skills in a class that focuses on developing the student's ability to dance and sing simultaneously. Choral numbers from the Musical Theatre repertoire are learned vocally and fully choreographed.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS106

Course Description:
This course examines the relationship between music and lyrics as two intertwining pillars of a song. Students examine their ability to capture an idea, mood, setting, theme, or feeling in the appropriate form, whether it be melody, song structure, chord progression, rhyme scheme, or more. The first semester is open to all music majors, with only Singer-Songwriter majors continuing into second semester.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS111

Course Description:
This course is designed to dive deeply into songwriting concepts, collaborative writing, and learning to use the DAW (digital audio workstation) Logic. The course is team taught by the songwriting faculty.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SPA101

Course Description:
Spanish I introduces the language and Hispanic culture through conversation, written and oral exercises, readings, and music. Students learn a great deal of vocabulary and focus on basic grammatical structures. This class is taught primarily in Spanish.

Program:
World Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SPA201

Course Description:
Spanish II expands the vocabulary and grammar structures through conversations, written and oral exercises, readings and music. This class is taught in Spanish, and it is expected that students speak only Spanish during class time.

Program:
World Language

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SPA301

Course Description:
This course is conducted in Spanish. It reviews certain materials from prior levels within a literary context emphasizing art and culture. Pair work, small group work, class discussions, debates, and oral presentations serve to strengthen conversational skills in Spanish. Films, music, and articles enhance the understanding of Hispanic cultures. A research project exploring regional artists along with their customs and traditions will be completed, and will include a presentation.

Program:
World Language

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
SPA303

Course Description:
This course is conducted in Spanish. It reviews grammar and vocabulary from prior levels emphasizing art and culture, and introduces additional grammar and vocabulary specific to student interest. Pair work, small group work, class discussions, debates, and oral presentations serve to strengthen conversational skills in Spanish. Films, music, and articles enhance the understanding of Hispanic cultures. A research project exploring art and culture will be completed, and will include a presentation. Spanish IV and V have class together, but work separately as well, with Spanish V working more intensely with the language in the context of literature, current events and conversing with native speakers.

Program:
World Language

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA338

Course Description:
In this course, students explore the structure of theatrical scenes, and allow the structure to ignite vocal and physical impulses. Students learn to mark scripts according to "units" that have three distinct elements: driving action, event, and response. This class is designed to transform an understanding of the structure of a scene into a dynamic and thrilling vocal performance.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA317

Course Description:
This course is an introduction to theatrical stage management. Students develop and access an empathetic approach to stage management and communication, focusing primarily on the techniques of interpersonal communication (written and verbal), collaboration, organization, and production. Students explore script analysis, document design, rehearsals, and all technical aspects of production. The approach to stage management as defined in this course will serve as the foundation from which to manage any style of live performance production.

Program:
Design and Production

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA401

Course Description:
This course provides students with the ability to create a three-dimensional character and theatre by using techniques that focus on physicality and expressive emotion. The course utilizes the techniques and methodologies of Jacques Lecoq, Jerzy Grotowski's physical theatre approach, Anne Bogart's viewpoints and psychological gesture work, and others. The students create a whole theatre that is infused with discipline, instinct, and technique. The work culminates weekly in a Performance Lab where students devise/create a world and character, utilizing these techniques in an ensemble setting.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM140

Course Description:
In this course students apply storyboard and film language to execute visual stories using a variety of previsualization techniques.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS121

Course Description:
In this class, students learn foundational elements of theory in the context of modern songwriting. This includes use of triads and extended chords: major, minor, 7th, diminished, and so on. Students learn how to figure out what key a song is in, how to find the tonic, and explore inversions, relative majors and minors, and how to communicate efficiently with other musicians with the Nashville number/Roman numeral system. Students learn capo theory, instrumental proficiency including different types of scales, and fundamentals of several instruments. Essentially, students learn to communicate and play with other musicians, who may or may not have a background in traditional theory.

Program:
Popular Music

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS121

Course Description:
In this class, students learn foundational elements of theory in the context of modern songwriting. This includes use of triads and extended chords: major, minor, 7th, diminished, and so on. Students learn how to figure out what key a song is in, how to find the tonic, and explore inversions, relative majors and minors, and how to communicate efficiently with other musicians with the Nashville number/Roman numeral system. Students learn capo theory, instrumental proficiency including different types of scales, and fundamentals of several instruments. Essentially, students learn to communicate and play with other musicians, who may or may not have a background in traditional theory.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS099

Course Description:
This course is an extension of private lessons. It addresses many of the same concepts, but in a group setting. It is designed to be flexible to meet the varying levels and needs of students.

Program:
Classical Composition

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS099

Course Description:
This course is an extension of private lessons. It addresses many of the same concepts, but in a group setting. It is designed to be flexible to meet the varying levels and needs of students.

Program:
Classical Performance

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS099

Course Description:
This course is an extension of private lessons. It addresses many of the same concepts, but in a group setting. It is designed to be flexible to meet the varying levels and needs of students.

Program:
Guitar

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS099

Course Description:
This course is an extension of private lessons. It addresses many of the same concepts, but in a group setting. It is designed to be flexible to meet the varying levels and needs of students.

Program:
Jazz

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS099

Course Description:
This course is an extension of private lessons. It addresses many of the same concepts, but in a group setting. It is designed to be flexible to meet the varying levels and needs of students.

Program:
Organ

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS099

Course Description:
This course is an extension of private lessons. It addresses many of the same concepts, but in a group setting. It is designed to be flexible to meet the varying levels and needs of students.

Program:
Piano

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
MUS099

Course Description:
This course is an extension of private lessons. It addresses many of the same concepts, but in a group setting. It is designed to be flexible to meet the varying levels and needs of students.

Program:
Singer-Songwriter

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Course Number:
THA051

Course Description:
Theatre Company serves as the primary "lab course" for the Academy Theatre Arts division, allowing students to utilize the skills they are developing in their other theatre curricular offerings. Theatre students actively participate in all facets of preparing a wide range of productions to be presented to audiences of the school community as well as the general public.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA051

Course Description:
Theatre Company serves as the primary "lab course" for the Academy Theatre Arts division, allowing students to utilize the skills they are developing in their other theatre curricular offerings. Theatre students actively participate in all facets of preparing a wide range of productions to be presented to audiences of the school community as well as the general public.

Program:
Design and Production

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA051

Course Description:
Theatre Company serves as the primary "lab course" for the Academy Theatre Arts division, allowing students to utilize the skills they are developing in their other theatre curricular offerings. Theatre students actively participate in all facets of preparing a wide range of productions to be presented to audiences of the school community as well as the general public.

Program:
Musical Theatre

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA115

Course Description:
Theatre History is a critical thinking and reading class that is designed to set a foundation for students to have a true appreciation for dramatic literature. This is a year-long course that should be taken in the full, two-semester sequence. This course is required of all new 9th and 10th grade students in the Acting track, and is highly recommended for all 11th and 12th grade students in the Acting track.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA116

Course Description:
Theatre History is a critical thinking and reading class that is designed to set a foundation for students to have a true appreciation for dramatic literature. This is a year-long course that should be taken in the full, two-semester sequence. This course is required of all new 9th and 10th grade students in the Acting track, and is highly recommended for all 11th and 12th grade students in the Acting track.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS119

Course Description:
Theory I focuses on the fundamentals of music. During the fall semester we will study reading in all clefs, intervals, scales, key signatures, and triads. We will learn about rhythm notation and meter. In addition, students will work on projects creating their own musical material and participate regularly in Musicianship Skills (singing, rhythm work, ear training, etc.). The class will meet four days a week. This course continues through the spring semester.

Program:
Classical Performance

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MUS119

Course Description:
Theory I focuses on the fundamentals of music. During the fall semester we will study reading in all clefs, intervals, scales, key signatures, and triads. We will learn about rhythm notation and meter. In addition, students will work on projects creating their own musical material and participate regularly in Musicianship Skills (singing, rhythm work, ear training, etc.). The class will meet four days a week. This course continues through the spring semester.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA301

Course Description:
In this course, students develop a rigorous artistic practice that yields a cohesive and sophisticated portfolio. Skills emphasized relate to the presentation and completion of major bodies of work, articulation of personal creative process, and continued honing of craft. Extensive independent research into contemporary and historical art and both cultural and autobiographical influences are necessary to create a meaningful and developed body of work. Students learn flexibility, answering questions about 'Why?' and 'What if...?' Interdisciplinary, collaborative and community-based creative investigations are highly encouraged. By the end of the term, students are able to articulate their thesis clearly and demonstrate research in the form of a cohesive body of work.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA401

Course Description:
This course prepares students for their Thesis Exhibition at the end of the year. Students develop a thesis idea that is connected to them through personal experience in order for their work to be genuine and original. Through an in-depth exploration of their chosen thesis idea, students learn how to interpret ideas metaphorically with multiple solutions and in multiple media. They continuously examine their idea and develop a body of work that is both visually and conceptually cohesive. In addition to the Thesis Exhibition, students are expected to complete college applications or research other professional opportunities available after graduation, write essays and artist statements, and enter scholarship competitions. In this course, students learn that making art as an ongoing process that involves the student in informed and critical decision-making. Technical mastery is emphasized and demonstrated through a wide range of approaches and media. Abstract, observational, and inventive works are explored and developed. Students work collaboratively and individually to curate and install their thesis exhibitions. The Dow Visual Arts Gallery serves as the main exhibition site. Exhibitions that students oversee also include the Student Juried Exhibition, Senior Thesis Exhibitions, and the annual Festival Exhibition. Upon completion of the Thesis Exhibition, students are expected to continue to create meaningful artwork for their portfolios.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA101

Course Description:
This course investigates the foundations of drawing, painting, and design principles while encouraging proficiency in a wide range of approaches. Students strengthen their drawing and painting abilities and knowledge through practice and progressive exploration. They examine the differences between media, such as oil and water-based paint, and experiment with a variety of surfaces, such as panel, canvas, and paper. Preparation of surfaces is emphasized, while students learn to build their own painting stretchers in the woodshop. Study of proportion, form, perspective, visual measurement, portraiture, chroma, mark and value making with a wide range of materials are emphasized in a series of observational and experimental projects. In addition to foundational techniques, conceptual development is promoted. Students are also expected to take part in critiques, classroom discussions, and research.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW365

Course Description:
This course will explore and interrogate the idea of "unreliability" - unreliable narrators, unreliable texts, and the slippery notions of "truth" and "honesty" in first-person narratives. What does it mean for a narrator to be unreliable? Why, when, and how do narrators deceive us? How might we, as writers, channel and utilize our own authorial unreliabilities? Drawing on works by Kazuo Ishiguro, Carmen Maria Machado, Tim O'Brien, Ottessa Moshfegh, David Foster Wallace, Joseph Mitchell, Janet Malcom, Hannah Arendt, and more, students in this course will write both fiction and nonfiction, thinking deeply and critically all the while about subjectivity, intention, voice, form, and the many challenges and opportunities of writing the self in this "post-truth" moment.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
VA201

Course Description:
In this course, students develop and refine two-dimensional and three-dimensional foundational techniques while cultivating the capacity for visual and conceptual thinking. Students also develop their ability to brainstorm, research and collect reference images and materials, in order to learn to independently develop ideas for assignments. Students in Visual Awareness embrace unique solutions to creative problems, and develop the skills necessary for conceptual growth and experimentation with material. Group critiques and discussions throughout the year allow students to gain insight from fellow students and strengthen their own speaking skills.

Program:
Visual Arts

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective

Course Number:
FNM201

Course Description:
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of cinematic storytelling and motion picture arts production. Through assignments and projects, students learn the basics of composition, sequencing and shot design, including the basics of cinematic language and grammar. Students learn the basics of camera operation, audio recording and editing and film set etiquette, including the responsibilities of various crew.

Program:
Animation

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM201

Course Description:
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of cinematic storytelling and motion picture arts production. Through assignments and projects, students learn the basics of composition, sequencing and shot design, including the basics of cinematic language and grammar. Students learn the basics of camera operation, audio recording and editing and film set etiquette, including the responsibilities of various crew.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
MPE203

Course Description:
At the center of most contemporary commercial recorded music is a vocal performance. In this course, students explore the ways that a producer helps an artist achieve a compelling and believable vocal performance. They also learn about the production tools a producer or engineer uses to amplify the emotional impact of a vocal performance.

Program:
Music Production and Engineering

Offered:
Fall

Course Number:
THA313

Course Description:
This class explores the essential tool of the voice in an actor's work. Emphasis is placed on examining the breathing process as well as resonance, vocal production, and articulation. Students learn how to effectively structure and design a vocal warm-up to prepare them to be in optimal condition for performance.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
FNM344

Course Description:
This course is a compendium of the great cinema traditions in Sub-Saharan Africa, East and Central Asia, Northern, Southern, Western and Eastern Europe, the Indian Subcontinent, MENA, North, Central and South America, and Oceania arranged by highlighting 1-2 directors from each of these regions. Additionally, every decade from the 1930’s to the 2020’s will be represented by at least one film. Each film will be studied from several angles: its historical, cultural, industrial and geographic context, its director’s biography, thematic, compositional and technical elements and the film’s relation to the history of cinema. Additionally the films chosen will have a demographically diverse selection of directors from a standpoint of gender, LGBQT+, and BIPOC designations.

Program:
Film and New Media

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
HIS207

Course Description:
In World History, students begin their investigations with pre-history. Long before the development of any lasting written record, humans were creating artifacts - works of art - which have endured to this day. Throughout the course, students examine this theme of creation. What is it that drives our need as humans to create? Students look closely at art, culture, and religion while covering many periods of history. This is a survey course, but students have opportunities to explore in greater depth areas of study that excite them.

Program:
History and Political Science

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
THA340

Course Description:
As the primary mass communication tool for centuries of civilization, theatre has been used for social, political, and personal expression. The World Theatre course is both a practicum and anthropological study. Students explore forms such as Indian Sanskrit theatre, Japanese Noh, Japanese Bunraku, Sub-Saharan African folk/ritualistic theatre, as well as modern social and political theatrical movements such as Theatre of the Oppressed and Street Theatre.

Program:
Acting

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW333

Course Description:
Who says dissecting a joke can't be funny? This course will focus on reading, generating, and occasionally performing contemporary humor pieces across multiple genres - including fiction, poetry, nonfiction, stand-up, spoken word, web series, podcast, and sketch. We will study a diverse range of humor writers - using their texts as structural/stylistic models for our own writing and performances. We will additionally examine students' personal relationships to humor, as well as humor's cultural significance and sociopolitical impacts. Due to the sometimes transgressive nature of comedy, this course requires students to engage critically with material that may be considered controversial. Open to all, but ideal for students in Creative Writing, Interdisciplinary Arts, Theater, and Film & New Media.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW352

Course Description:
In this course, we'll discuss what features and strategies writers can use to create a strong foundation for their novel, whether it be ‘genre’ or literary fiction. This course will ask for some intensive writing, including the generation of the first section of your novel. During class sessions, we’ll read and study a range of contemporary novels—and talk strategies with a number of visiting authors, including some via Skype Q&A. In addition, we’ll be practicing craft elements through in-class exercises that draw from the material of your novel.Topics to discuss include: what's the best way to invite readers into your world while also hinting at its complexities? What are good strategies for introducing your characters and their wants and needs? How do you plant the thematic seeds that will grow into a strong story? From there, we’ll move into writing a series of scenes meant to further flesh out our characters and our worlds. We’ll end by workshopping novel excerpts. This class intends to provide the tools, material, and momentum for students to finish their novels over the summer.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective

Course Number:
CRW051

Course Description:
Workshop is the central component of the Creative Writing Program. Nonfiction Workshop is a seminar-style course in which students focus on producing and revising their own essays. Workshops use the literature of both professional models and student models to provide extensive training in the writing process. Through discussion of readings, generative exercises, group critique and exchange, tutorials, feedback on drafts, and discussion of the elements by which a piece of writing may be assessed, the student participates in the development of writing and builds a vocabulary of the writing craft. In the process the student gains consciousness of writing as a communal and cultural act.

Program:
Creative Writing

Offered:
Fall & Spring

Interlochen 5 Capacities Addressed:

• Creative Capacity
• Community and Citizen Artistry
• Global and Cultural Perspective
• Mindfulness, Wellness, and Resilience
• Interdisciplinary Perspective