Graphic Design

Grade level:  9-11

Credit:  1

Prerequisite:  None

This course is an introduction to and survey of the creative and conceptual aspects of designing media arts experiences and products, including techniques, genres, and styles from various and combined media and forms, including moving image, sound, interactive, spatial, and/or interactive design. Participation in Kentucky Technology Student Association or SkillsUSA will greatly enhance instruction. 

Grade level:  10-12

Credit:  1

Prerequisite:  Introduction to Media Arts

This course is a proficient study and production of creative and conceptual aspects of signing and producing digital imagery, graphics, and photography. This includes techniques, genres, and styles from fine arts and commercial advertising, internet and multimedia, web design, and industrial and virtual design. Students use a computer as an electronic drawing tool to solve visual communications and illustration problems in designing products. This course entails the use of current software for two-dimensional illustration, creating and integrating text, using color, and importing and exporting files. Participation in Kentucky Technology Student Association or SkillsUSA will greatly enhance instruction. 

Grade level:  10-12

Credit:  1

Prerequisite:  Introduction to Media Arts

This course is an accomplished study and production of creative and conceptual aspects of designing and producing digital imagery, graphics, and photography. This includes techniques, genres, and styles from fine arts and commercial advertising, internet and multimedia, web design, and industrial and virtual design. Students use a computer as an electronic drawing tool to solve visual communications and illustration problems in designing authentic products. This course entails an accomplished use of current software for two-dimensional illustration, creating and integrating text, using color, and importing and exporting files. Typical course topics include aesthetic meaning and analysis of computer-generated works; composing, capturing, processing, and programming of imagery and graphical information; their transmission, distribution, and marketing; as well as contextual, cultural, and historical aspects and considerations. Participation in Kentucky Technology Student Association or SkillsUSA will greatly enhance instruction. 

Grade level:  11-12

Credit:  1

Prerequisite:  None

This course emphasizes an advanced and independent use of compositional theory, elements and principles of design, techniques, and creative processes for effectively performing the function of persuasion and information through the use of materials and media to create visual effects to produce original authentic works. Students will demonstrate an advanced level of creative expression to a variety of authentic design products (various print mediums such as magazines, newspapers, billboards, fictional and informational texts, product wrappers, and displays) through a purposeful arrangement of images and/or text and develop a strategic product presentation both independently and as a collaborative team. The course focuses on advanced computer-generated designs as well as the use of various software and hardware with an emphasis on students creating, producing, responding, and connecting in visual art and new media. An in-depth independent study of career opportunities in media art is performed. The contemporary, cultural, and historical design may be studied. Participation in Kentucky Technology Student Association or SkillsUSA will greatly enhance instruction. 

Grade level:  12

Credit:  1

Prerequisite:  Meet Fusion WBL Program Criteria

Cooperative Education for CTE courses provide supervised work site experience related to the student’s identified career pathway. A student must be enrolled in an approved course during the same school year that the co-op experience in completed or have already completed the pathway the previous year. Students who participate receive a salary for these experiences, in accordance with local, state and federal minimum wage requirements according to the Work Based Learning Manual. 

Grade level:  12

Credit:  1

Prerequisite:  Meet Fusion WBL Program Criteria

Internship for CTE courses provides supervised work-site experience for high school students who are enrolled in a course associated with their identified career pathway. Internship experiences consist of a combination of classroom instruction and field experiences. A student receiving pay for an intern experience is one who is participating in an experience that lasts a semester or longer and has an established employee-employer relationship. A non-paid internship affects those students who participate on a short-term basis (semester or less). All information references to the Work Based Learning Manual.