Arts and Humanities Endorsement

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Texas legislative recently passed a bill called House Bill 5. This causes all 8th grade Texas students and everyone below to choose an endorsement for high school. These endorsements help determine what classes to take, what college courses to prepare for, and what career you want to pursue. Our group was assigned Arts and Humanities and we researched careers such as art, music, theatre, and dance. You must have 26 credits in order to graduate while completing all other core and elective classes. This helps you plan your future and encourages you to start thinking about your future before starting to create your own life.
The first two careers we researched were art and theatre. Both of these careers do not require certain degrees to get a job but they sometimes require special classes. In art you can take different types of technique classes in order to help your figure drawing and hand movements. You could take 3D design as a career while studying different courses also. In theatre, you take improve or other classes if your debating on just going into theatre shows (example Broadway). If you want to go into the entertainment industry, you could take movie acting classes or even improve too. This new house bill allows students to get ready and prepared for these certain exciting career choices.
For art you must take four social studies or economic courses, four levels of the same language other than English, and four levels American Sign Language. You must also take a coherent sequence of four credits from one or two categories of fine Arts. You must start at your freshman year, which guides the student through a path of academic study.
There are several different fields in music. Depending on whatever you want to look into in th...

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...lp you. Arts and humanities is a good field that you should take that won’t take that much work, these are some examples of the high school courses that you would have to take and gives you an idea of what you would need to know for these professions. All these things will help you to get these profession and get you above and beyond. This project taught us a lot too. Things that I didn’t know that you need to take or or do to in the field of arts and humanities. We are all glad that we got chosen to do the study of arts and humanities to see what you have to do in high school or in college or what classes you could take to help you get better at the things in this field.

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Sharon, Mills. Person interview. 21 April 2014
Collegeboard.org, mi.edu, www.internlikearockstar.com,
Zachery, Bloom. Personal interview, 17 April 2014
www.garlandisdschools.net

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