Creative Arts
The Creative Arts Faculty at Terrace encompasses the study of Drama; Film, Television and New Media; Music and Visual Art.
These four dynamic departments engage students with rigorous learning opportunities that foster their creative, academic, artistic and technical thinking to become reflective and analytical life-long learners.
Through a pursuit of excellence, all subjects within the Creative Arts at Terrace turn on the light of creativity, as well as developing originality and advanced problem solving skills to provide vital foundations for a myriad of academic and post-school pathways. Through studying the Creative Arts, a Terrace student becomes a capable, sensitive and empathetic young man, exploring, investigating and understanding the world in which he lives.
Drama, Music and Visual Art are offered from the Primary years through to Year 12. Film, Television and New Media is offered in Years 11 and 12 only.
Mr Michael Beh
Head of Faculty – Creative Arts
Course offerings in the Faculty of Creative Arts include:
Terrace Drama students explore human presence and relationships in order to comprehend, evaluate and understand philosophical, social and cultural perspectives of the historical and contemporary world around them. The Department embraces contemporary tertiary initiatives of research through practice. Therefore via the dramatic skills of role play, improvisation, research and performance Terrace Drama students engage in imagining, creating, performing, analysing and synthesising dramatic play, sign systems and cultural stories.
Coordinator: Mr Michael Beh
Film, Television and New Media
Through the study of Film, Television and New Media, students at Terrace understand the vital way screen media shapes attitudes, values, ideals and aspirations in contemporary society. By reading, using and creating visual media, Terrace Film and Television students develop heightened visual literacy, critical analysis and technical excellence. Much of the course focuses on active learning whereby students develop enhanced skills by utilising professional film equipment in order to create their own productions.
Coordinator: Ms Maria Lourundos
Classroom Music at Terrace enables students to communicate creative thought, emotion, ideas and beliefs through what is essentially an aural art form. By sequentially developing the ability to translate, respond to and exchange experiences through the musical form, Terrace students analyse repertoire, compose, arrange, perform, synthesise, discuss and ‘live’ music.
Coordinator: Mrs Genevieve Claffey
Terrace Visual Art students create visual forms as an expression of thought, feeling, idea and belief. Their visual literacy enhances the capacity to question, interpret, synthesise and express their personal position, developing their understanding of the diverse role of art within cultures, past and present, including transcultural Australia. Through aesthetic and spatial thinking, active art processes, kinaesthetic learning and artistic analysis, students engage with multiple interpretations and representations of culture, self and society, making subsequent visual art in a myriad of forms.
Coordinator: Mrs Alison Rooney
