Graphic Communications Cluster

PREPARATION  LEVEL  COURSES

I370  ADVANCED  GRAPHIC  ARTS  I  (ACC)

Course length: 1 year

Course credit: 2.5

Grade level: 11, 12

This course offers instruction in all phases of offset presswork, process photography and negative stripping, plate making, and bindery processes.  The new desktop publishing and word processing field using computers is an exciting part of the program.  35 mm photography and silk screening are also included.

I470  ADVANCED  GRAPHIC  ARTS  II  (ACC)

Course length: 1 year

Course credit: 2.5

Grade level: 12

This course is the second year of a two year program that introduces students to the graphic arts / printing industry.  The program provides instruction in Desktop Publishing, design and layout, line and half – tone photography, negative stripping, plate making, press preparation and operation, silk screening, still photography, and sign making.

I401  INDUSTRIAL  TECHNOLOGY  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATION

Course length: 1 year

Course credit: variable

Grade level: 11, 12

Industrial Technology Cooperative Education is designed for junior and senior students interest in pursuing careers in Industrial Technology.  Students are released from school for their paid cooperative education work experience.  They participate in 200 minutes per week of related classroom instruction focusing on job survival skills, career exploration skills related to the job, and human relations skills. 

A qualified industrial technology instructor is responsible for supervision and is given 30 minutes per student per week to do so.  Written training agreements and individual student training plans are developed and agreed upon by the employer, student and coordinator.  The coordinator, student and employer assume compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations.  The coordinator also needs to have taken six semester hours of organization and administration of cooperative education.

The course content includes the following broad areas of emphasis:  further career education opportunities, planning for the future, job seeking skills, personal development, human relationship, legal protection and responsibilities, economics of the job, organization and job termination.

Z401  INTERRELATED  COOPERATIVE  EDUCATION       

Course length: 1 year

Course credit: variable

Grade level: 11, 12

Interrelated Cooperative Education is designed for junior and/or senior students interested in pursuing careers in vocational occupations.  Students are released from school for their paid cooperative education work experience and participate in 200 minutes per week of related classroom instruction.  Classroom instruction focuses on providing students with job survival skills and career exploration skills related to the job and improving student’s abilities to interact positively with others.  For skills related to the job, refer to the skill development course outlines and the task list of the desired occupational program.

A qualified vocational cooperative coordinator is responsible for supervision.  Written training agreements and individual student training plans are developed and agreed upon by the employer, student and coordinator.  Occupational task lists form the basis for training plans.  The coordinator, student and employer assume compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations.

The course content includes the following broad areas of emphasis: further career education opportunities, planning for the future, job-seeking skills, personal development, human relationships, legal protection and responsibilities, economics and the job, organization and job termination.  In addition, classroom instruction includes technical skills as identified on occupational task lists.