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Communication Arts is a challenging, two year program focusing on various fields in the communications industry, including photography, television, audio production, graphic design, digital photography, multi-media, and journalism. Graduates go on to become producers, directors, graphic designers, photographers, and assume other roles within the media profession. Presently the program is designed as a two-year curriculum, resulting in an Associate in Applied Science degree and utilizing a blend of lecture and laboratory experience within the multimedia center that includes a television studio and control room, darkroom, multimedia classroom, graphic production area, and audio production facility. Students learn the basics of what goes on in a television studio, the mechanics of broadcast writing, camera technique, the application of the computer in the media profession, and the history and future of the media.

Course Requirements...

First Semester	Second Semester
Introduction to Media...............3 Introduction to Computer Science....3 Photography 1 ......................3 English 101 ........................3 Art 111 ............................3 Physical Activity .................. Total..............................16	Digital Photography ................3 Introduction to TV .................3 Audio ..............................3 Broadcast Journalism ...............3 Psychology 101 .....................3 Physical Education Elective ......1-2 Total...........................16-17
Third Semester	Fourth Semester
Desktop Publishing .................3 Multimedia Production ..............3 Graphics ...........................3 English 112 ........................3 Mathematics Elective ...............3 Speech 101 .........................3 Total..............................18	Desktop Publishing with Avid .......3 Telecommunications .................3 Interactive Multimedia Design ......3 Practicum ..........................3 Social Science Elective ............3 Science Elective ...................3 Total...........................18-19

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