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Nov. 1st - 15th, 2014
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艺术
在圣保罗中学里，我们对艺术充满了热情。艺术关乎每个人和整个社区，从初期的个体到最后的公众体验。意识到艺术的熏陶会对世界产生巨大和颠覆性的影响，美学，戏剧，舞蹈和音乐节目给学生提供了各种工作室以及多姿多彩的表演艺术课程，艺术的理论和历史课程以及与多元化的各种艺术风格的艺术团体和艺术家频繁接触的机会。
艺术：美学
美学课程的相关信息
美学项目是一系列以工作室为基础的课程，学生可以在工作室里动手完成作业，并辅以宽广的导论课程如艺术史，理论，评论和美学等，以及让学生展示他们的作品作为每一门课程的学习成果。所有的学生都可以在三个主要领域里面选择一个领域来修各种课程: 绘画，油画和版画；雕刻和陶艺；或者摄影和电脑绘图。作为三个领域所修各科的集成，高级的作品集课程会给学生以帮助。这个项目也提供建筑学和艺术史方面的课程，同时学生也可以选择一系列室内艺术学科进行学习。美学项目适合从初学者到想在圣保罗的学习期间深入学习室内艺术的学生。
艺术：舞蹈
舞蹈课程信息
圣保罗中学给学生提供了专业的舞蹈设施并将严谨的教学和最出色的舞蹈训练结合起来。该校的舞蹈项目营造了一种具有趣味，关怀和艺术气息的学习环境，而且通过教授传统芭蕾舞，现代舞，解剖学理论和表演使学生能够有半职业的或者大学的水平。圣保罗中学的师资专注于一种观念，即学习舞蹈是一种过程，舞者们从中不断进化和提升自己。我们的目标是培养具有良好的职业道德和水平卓越的舞者，提倡艺术成长并给来自不同背景的舞者提供支持。
圣保罗学校的舞蹈项目适用于培训不同水平的学生，从初学者到最高水平的学生，可以给他们提供激发灵感的学习环境。所有的课程聚焦在挑战学生并支持他们在身心和艺术修养方面的发展。这个项目在提供全年舞蹈课程的私立中学里是非常独树一帜的。
艺术：音乐
音乐课程信息
圣保罗的音乐项目主要是以表演为基础，有超过百分之三十的学生参加充满活力的合唱团和乐团。音乐课程的设计部分是为帮助学生参加合唱团或乐团，通过小班课程和音乐家培养等实用音乐课程来提高他们的技能。根据学生高中入学时的分级测试情况，安排学生参加不同级别的实用音乐课程，学生想修习音乐课程多少年都可以。
艺术：戏剧
戏剧艺术课程信息
在戏剧方面，有全年的戏剧课，或者给够资格的学生提供的秋季学期表演课的介绍作为所有其他戏剧艺术选修课的预修课程。对于希望想要更加深入了解戏剧的学生，推荐的课程包括：戏剧艺术基础，表演技巧，场景技巧，戏剧研讨班，高级表演技巧，戏剧制作，电影制作，高级导演和高级戏剧研究。戏剧制作涉猎多种内容，专门为使学生能够在圣保罗中学的学习期间能够多次修这门课而设计。戏剧研讨班提供顶级的机会帮助学生从某些具体方面探索演员的技艺。这样的机会包含了舞台化妆和设计，莎士比亚戏剧的表演，即兴戏剧表演，戏剧剧本创作和电影剧本创作。每年根据学生的需求和意愿提供不同的聚焦和专题。学校推荐学生参加重要的戏剧制作和学生自导的独幕剧。
人文学科
人文学部的哲学
跨学科间的人文课程对帮助学生培养对探索知识的渴望和对健康和自省的人生极其重要。学生对于在日益复杂和全球化的世界里如何成为积极参与的公民和负责任的领导者面临着挑战。他们富有创造力地在不同的主题间互动和关联。合作和创新是人文学科项目的重要标志。在培养批判性思考能力，写作能力，阅读能力以及研究技能时候，跨学科之间的学习也培养人对于自我，社区，世界以及神的认知。
人文写作项目
人文系努力使学生在大学所修的领域和其他方面都可以成为自信，有分寸的写作者。我们希望学生通过各种不同题材的写作练习，能够写出条理清晰，简洁明了，真实而有意义的文章。这些练习的题材包括正式的短文，个人随笔，短篇故事，诗赋，对话和其他研究型的论文等。
我们希望学生从宽泛的文章的阅读中享受阅读带来的乐趣，并追求对语言，原创，纯粹的冒险精神和自我表达的激情。因此，我们的任务是努力让覆盖面宽广，明白表达自身不仅仅只限于书面语而且也可以是各种传媒方式：如电影，播客，视觉艺术，辩论，角色扮演，演说等等。我们意识到各种形式的表达方式对于升大学的准备以及将来的生活都是非常关键的。因为好的作家也是好的读者，学生会去阅读并探寻各种不同的观点，进而形成自己的想法，明白写作就是去发现，当然，就一般而言，写作在这个世界上有多重目的和价值。
我们意识到学生学会去推动事物的发展和反思他们自己的想法和感受的重要性：为了这个目的，学生要琢磨出自己的一套方法来使他们的写作个性化。通过他们自己写东西，来培养必要的思维习惯，比如如何解决问题，创造性思维和好奇心等。这些思维习惯会引导他们向前，在这个科技极其发达的世纪能够自如地适应，清晰充分地以各种方式表达自己。
Arts
We are passionate about the arts at SPS. Initially solitary and ultimately public, the arts involve the whole person and address the whole community. Recognizing that a regular exposure to the arts has always had a powerful and liberating influence in the world, the Fine Arts, Theatre, Dance and Music Programs offer students a variety of studio and performance-based classes, courses in the history and theory of the arts, and frequent exposure to a diverse group of visiting artists and performers.
Arts: Fine Arts
Fine Arts Course Information
The Fine Arts Program is a studio-based program, with hands-on studio assignments supplemented by a broad introduction to art history, theory, criticism, and aesthetics, and with students expected to display their work as one outcome of each course. All students are offered extensive elective opportunities in one of three major areas: drawing, painting and printmaking; sculpture and ceramics; or photography and computer graphics. Advanced Portfolio courses are offered as culminating classes in each of those three major areas of study. The program also offers courses in architecture and art history, and students may also choose to study across a variety of studio arts disciplines. The Fine Arts Program supports the beginning, introductory student through those who wish to study in the studio arts in depth and throughout their St. Paul's career.
Arts: Dance
Dance Course Information
St. Paul's School provides students with an opportunity to combine a rigorous academic education with the finest dance training in a dedicated dance facility. The St. Paul's School Dance Program fosters a fun, nurturing and artistic learning environment, and prepares its students to dance at the pre-professional and college level by teaching classical ballet, modern dance, anatomical theory, and performance. St. Paul's School faculty is committed to the idea that studying dance is a process and that dancers are always evolving and growing. Our goal is to train technically proficient dancers with a sound work ethic, promote artistic growth and support dancers of all backgrounds.
The SPS Dance Program is designed to train all levels of dancers, from the beginner to the most advanced students who wish to study dance in an inspiring learning environment. All classes are focused on challenging students and supporting their physical, mental, and artistic development. The program is distinct amongst independent secondary schools in offering year-round dance classes as part of its academic calendar.
Arts: Music
Music Course Information
The Music Program at SPS is primarily performance based, with vibrant choral and instrumental ensembles involving over 30 percent of the student body. The music curriculum is designed in part to support student participation in the ensembles by enhancing their skills through private lessons and musicianship classes as part of the Applied Music Program. Students may enter the Applied Music Program at any level, depending upon their ability as determined by a placement test at the start of the school year, and may take Applied Music as many years as they wish.
Arts: Theatre
Theatre Course Information
In Theatre, the year-long Foundations in Theatre class, or for qualified students the Fall Term Introduction to Acting class serves as the prerequisite for all other Theatre electives. A recommended course of study for those students wishing to explore theatre in depth includes: Foundations in Theatre, Acting Techniques, Scene Study Techniques, Theatre Seminar, Advanced Acting Techniques, Theatre Production, Film Production, Advanced Directing, and Advanced Studies in Theatre. Theatre Production varies in the material covered and is designed to allow students to take the course more than once during their years at St. Paul’s. Theatre Seminar offers a myriad of opportunities for students to explore specific aspects within the actors' craft. Such offerings include Stage Makeup and Design, Shakespeare in Performance, Improvisation for the Theatre, and Playwrting and Screenwriting. A different focus or topic will be offered each year based on student need and desire. Participation in major productions and student-directed one-acts is also recommended.
Humanities
Humanities Division Statement of Philosophy
The interdisciplinary Humanities curriculum helps students develop the passion for inquiry essential to a healthy and examined life. Students are challenged to become engaged citizens and responsible leaders in an increasingly complex and globalized world. They creatively interact with and draw connections between diverse texts. Collaboration and innovation are hallmarks of the Humanities program. The interdisciplinary study fosters an understanding of self, community, the world, and the divine while students develop critical thinking, writing, reading, and research skills.
Humanities Writing Program
The Humanities Department strives to enable students to become confident, assured writers in whatever fields they pursue in college and their lives beyond. We expect students to write with clarity, efficiency, integrity, and purpose through a wide range of assignments, including but not limited to the formal essay, personal essay, short story, poetry, dialogue, and research essay.
We want students to read with joy a wide range of texts, and pursue a passion for language and original, indeed adventurous, self expression. Accordingly, our assignments strive to be equally wide ranging, acknowledging that expression manifests itself not only in the written word but also in a variety of media: film, podcasts, visual art, debates, role plays, speeches, and more. We recognize that all types of expression are essential preparation for college and life beyond. Because good writers are good readers, students will read and explore a variety of voices and thereby develop their own voices, learning that writing is about discovery and that writing has multiple purposes in the world at large.
We recognize the developmental importance of students learning to process, and to reflect upon, their own thinking and feelings: to this end, students will develop a set of tools that individualize the writing process. Through their writing, students develop necessary habits of mind such as problem-solving, creative thinking, and curiosity. These habits of mind will usher them onwards within a century where extraordinary technological changes will require them to be adaptable, supple, and lucid in all manners of expression.