Core Electives
Culinary Arts
How can learning and mastering basic cooking skills not only help us make healthy and tasty meals to nourish our bodies, but also give us the independence to take care of ourselves, the creativity to try new recipes, and the ability to make sustainable food choices that help protect the environment for the rest of our lives?
TREE’s Culinary Arts elective classes provide students an experiential understanding of the foundation of cooking and the interdependent relationship between food, health, and the environment. The students are taught not only the process of food manipulation, (e.g. flavoring, seasoning and preserving food) but also principles of science, culture, and sustainability. Every class is a hands-on exercise in creativity and the development of confidence through a subject we all love - food.
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Culinary Arts 1 & 2
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Food Science
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Survival Chef
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Global Street Foods
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Sustainable Cooking
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Test Kitchen
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Breakfast All Day
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Baking
Yoga
At TREE Academy, we believe meditation and yoga are essential life skills. All students at TREE have the opportunity to spend a semester each academic year taking our yoga courses in satisfying a part of their PE requirement. Yoga courses are taught by our resident yogi with extensive yoga teaching experience, who also happens to be our CFO!
Visual Arts
How can I use my creative voice through art to explore personal truth, challenge injustice, and inspire change in my community and beyond?
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This essential question is at the core of all of our visual art classes, infusing purpose to the broad swath of skills and perspectives developed across our course offerings, which include:
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Intro to Fine Art
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Ceramics 1 & 2
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Watercolors
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Drawing
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Sculpture
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Oil Painting
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Digital Illustration
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Puppet Making
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Fashion Illustration & Upcycled Fashion
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Campus Beautification
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Music
How can we use music to challenge what is "normal”?
TREE’s music program allows students to explore their creativity vocally, instrumentally, and digitally. Our music program not only develops students' skills and talents, but also opportunities to learn about the industry, music production and recording, podcasting in our on-campus studio. We regularly host guest speakers who are award-winning professionals.
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Instrumental courses:
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Drums
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Guitar
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Bass
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Rock Bands: 1960s, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Punk, Advanced Rock
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DJing
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Music Business
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Podcasting
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Playlist Curation
Fall 2025-26 Electives
Some of our current elective offerings...​
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Nature Hiking
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Engineering
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Financial Literacy
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Astronomy & Star Evolution
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Computer Science
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Student Council
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Yearbook
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Forensic Science
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Sustainability
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Gardening
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Creative Writing
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What Horror Teaches Us about Humanity