Four terms of Visual and Performing Arts are required for graduation.

A yearlong Visual or Performing Arts course and a one-trimester heritage course in the opposite discipline are required.

EXAMPLE: Foundations in the Visual Arts and Music History and Appreciation Theatre Arts or Broadway Bound or Choir and Art History.

Students who complete a yearlong course in both Visual Arts and Performing Arts may select either Art or Music History to satisfy the heritage requirement.

Department courses are either one term or yearlong as indicated in the course descriptions. Arts courses may be taken as electives in all four years of high school and are recommended for college bound students.


Click here to download the Performing Arts Course Descriptions for 2008-2009

Instructors

Ms. Hill has taught for over fifteen years at the Junior High, High School and College level.  She has been teaching at Loretto for the past three years.  She has a B.A. in physical education and dance.  Ms. Hill has two certifications as a personal trainer.  She will be pursing her masters in dance education.  She is very active in theatre in the community.  Specific interests are in film and writing.  Ms. Hill was born in Puerto Rico.

Mr. Lien has been involved in music nearly his entire life, the last three of which have been spent at Loretto High School.  He holds bachelors and masters degrees in music from UC Irvine, a masters degree in theology from Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in historical musicology from UC Davis.  He enjoys using the gift of music to support community organizations.  Before coming to Loretta, Mr. Lien founded and directed a community chorus in Davis that presented benefit concerns for non-profit organizations in Yolo County.