BY MEGAN ANDERSON
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Both the Visual and Performing Arts and Career Technical Education departments slimmed down their electives from the course catalog.
According to CTE department head Ron Volk, the CTE department got rid of the electives Business Law, Sports Marketing and Accounting due to the scarce number of students enrolled.

According to Volk, listing electives that would rarely garner enough students would sometimes drive students away from flourishing programs and into dead ends.

“Some of the electives we had haven’t been effective for years so we got rid of them because it was breaking up the number of people that could go into concepts or apps,” Volk said.

VAPA department coordinator Patricia Leong decided to cut out a couple electives for the same enrollment reasons.

“Most of the [electives] that were removed were [things] like Choir and Musical Theatre because we haven’t carried that in a while,” Leong said. “Musical Theatre and things like that have just streamlined down to Drama.”