Course Selection Information
Tracks Yearbook Staff
The award-winning Tracks Yearbook staff produces a 290+ page yearbook that is sold to students, staff and community members. The staff is responsible for all aspects, including design, photography, writing and editing. This course is photography driven with emphasis on writing captions and feature stories. This is a time intensive course that requires multiple outside of school events per six weeks.
Class caps at 25 and is geared at 10-12 graders.
Students enrolled in Journalism: Intro to Mass Media will have preference for admission, but it is not a mandatory prerequisite.
Students must fill out a Student Interest Survey and take part in an interview with the editors and adviser.
See Cedar Park Journalism handbook for more detailed information about time commitments and grading policies. Click here for awards and accolades by the Tracks Yearbook Staff.
The Wolfpack Newspaper Staff
The award-winning, nationally ranked Wolfpack newspaper began in 1998 and grew into an online news source in 2010. In 2004, CPHS-TV launched with its flagship broadcast, the Wolfcast. Then in 2017, both groups began operating under the CPHS News brand to provide students, teachers and parents one go-to source for all things Cedar Park High School. This course is a writing and interview based course where students can choose the stories they want to write. Students will become experts at photography, caption writing, interviewing, journalistic writing and publishing their work on our website, www.cphswolfpack.com. This is less time intensive than yearbook, but still requires attendance at outside of class events.
Class caps at 25 and is geared at 10-12 graders.
Students enrolled in Journalism: Intro to Mass Media will have preference for admission, but it is not a mandatory prerequisite.
Students must fill out a Student Interest Survey and take part in an interview with the editors and adviser.
See Cedar Park Journalism handbook for more detailed information about time commitments and grading policies. Click here for awards & accolades by The Wolfpack Staff.
Journalism: Introduction to Mass Media
Journalism provides an overview of the fundamentals of journalism including how to write news stories, features, editorials, sports stories, and captions. You will be telling people’s stories and giving them a voice. Journalism is storytelling, with words and pictures. As journalists, we document events, inform and tell stories of all sorts of people. This is a comprehensive course where we will study the basic principles of scholastic journalism. A few topics include interviewing skills, news, feature, sports and opinion writing, editing and AP style, headline and caption writing, design elements, typography, photography, journalism history/First Amendment. In addition, you will have the opportunity to have your stories posted on the online newspaper website, The Wolfpack, at www.cphswolfpack.com.
Class caps at 24 and is geared at all 9-11 graders interested in joining yearbook, newspaper or broadcast. Occasionally 12th graders if they are interested in writing.
See more information about the course here.
Broadcast - CPHS News Staff
CPHS News consists of a staff of 40+ broadcast and newspaper students. We strive to tell the many diverse stories of Cedar Park High School while also providing our audience with relevant and important information they can use. This includes the accomplishments and events of CPHS’ academic groups, sports teams, clubs and other extracurricular organizations. The broadcast courses are taught by Anthony Garcia. For more information on joining CPHS News, click here.