VPA Academy - Visual Art Completion
Issued by
Bangor High School
The Visual & Performing Arts Academy offers three pathways: Visual Art, Theater Arts, and Music. Each program combines outstanding curriculum with the expectation that students apply and enrich their learning with committed study of content and skill throughout the academic year and during the summer. By design, academy learning experiences meaningfully extend the curriculum, deliberately accelerate student learning, progressively contribute to the development of a distinguished portfolio.
- Type Learning
- Level Advanced
- Time Years
Skills
Earning Criteria
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Seven (7) total courses are required in each pathway concentration, all of which are instructed and assessed at the Honors or Advanced Placement (AP) Level and all of which must culminate with the AP course corresponding to the area of study. Each pathway concentration ends with its respective Advanced Placement course that is designed to facilitate completion a Capstone Project. The Capstone is a four-year culmination of student work in the pathway presented in portfolio form.