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Category Descriptions
Sciences
- Architecture: The science, art or profession
of designing buildings or outdoor spaces.
- Biology: The science of life or of the origin,
structure, reproduction, growth and development of living organisms
collectively.
- Chemistry: The science that deals with the
composition, structure and properties of chemical processes and
phenomena of substance and the transformation that they undergo.
- Computer Science: The science that deals with
the theoretical aspects of computers including storage and the
transformation of data using computers.
- Mathematics: The science of numbers and their
operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and
abstractions of spaced configurations and their structure.
- Physics/Electronics: A branch of physics that
deals with the emission, behavior or effects (as in electron tubes
and transistors) and with electronic devices.
- Physics/Energy: A branch of physics that deals
with usable power (as heat or electricity) and the resources for
producing such power.
- Physics/General: The science that deals with
matter and energy and their interactions in the fields of mechanics,
acoustics, optics, heat, electricity, magnetism, radiation, atomic
structure and nuclear phenomena.
Humanities
- Music Composition: The science or art of arranging
music by ordering tones or sounds in succession, in combination
or in temporal relationships to produce a composition having unity
and continuity.
- Original Essay: A brief examination of a subject
in prose usually expressing a personal view or interpretation
of a subject or topic.
- Poetry: A composition, marked by language
chosen for its sound, beauty and evocative power.
- Play Writing: A literary composition developed
for the stage.
Performing Arts
- Dance: To perform a series of rhythmic and
patterned bodily movements usually performed to music.
- Dramatics: The art of staging or acting plays
- Music Instrumental/Classical: The art of performing
with a device used to produce music with tones of the late 18th
and 19th centuries characterized by an emphasis on balance, clarity,
and moderation.
- Music Instrumental/Contemporary: The art of
performing with a device used to produce music with the tones
of the present.
- Music Vocal/Classical: The art of performing
with the human voice rhythmic tones or sounds of the late 18th
and 19th centuries characterized by an emphasis on balance, clarity,
and moderation.
- Music Vocal/Contemporary: The art of performing
with the human voice rhythmic tones or sounds to produce music
with the tones of the present.
- Oratory: The art of speaking in public eloquently
and effectively. (This is not a dramatic presentation.)
Visual Arts
- Drawing: The art of representing forms and
figures on a surface by means of lines.
- Filmmaking/Video: The art and process of making
motion pictures.
- Painting: The art of laying on paints with
a brush or a knife.
- Photography: The process, art and technique
of taking images recorded by a camera and reproducing them on
a photosensitive surface.
- Sculpture: The art of making three-dimensional
figures or designs
Business
- Entrepreneurship: Refers to owning, organizing,
and managing your own business by providing a necessary product
or service.
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