| Pilot Site: | |
| This is a pilot course for Kearny DMD. Other schools may not offer this course without prior approval from the Interdistrict Curriculum Committee. | |
| Grade Range: | |
| 12 | |
| Prerequisites: | |
| None. | |
| Course duration: | |
| Two semesters. | |
| Subject area in which graduation credit will be given: | |
| English Language Arts | |
| UC subject area satisfied: | |
| b - English | |
| Course Description: | |
| Changing Hearts and Minds is a year-long course that teaches students to act as purveyors of change in the world-at-large. Throughout the course students will analyze a variety of print and digital texts in order to identify and interpret an author’s, artist’s, and/or designer’s message, and to determine how a specific audience drives a creator’s decision-making process. Students will evaluate and successfully use visual design principles and elements to enhance, distribute and increase visibility of a message or cause. This process will lead students to use writing and the principles of design to create texts and visuals that tell stories and convey effective messages for the purposes of effecting change; this also leads students to be critical thinkers and active receivers of messages. | |
| State Course Code(s): | |
| 7212 - Advanced Design (Capstone) | |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: | |
| https://ucci.ucop.edu/courses/b/changing-hearts-and-minds.html | |
CTE-408