Introduction to Communications gives students an overview of communication, media creation, and the impact of media on society. Communication’s history and purposes are the foundation of the course, focusing on how and why messages are sent to various types of audiences. Students focus specifically on design concepts and theories involved in graphic communications. The course addresses a spectrum of communication and media concepts including camera operation, the evolution of digital photography, the digital media revolution, and the relationship of audiences to a history of mediums, including telegraphy, radio and film.

The Digital Photo Editing course focuses on procedures for editing and manipulating digital photographs. The course uses graphic design software to explore basic editing techniques and tools. More complicated processes are introduced later in the course as students familiarize themselves with photo manipulation. By course completion, students will have experience with image editing techniques such as cropping, resizing, dodge and burn, adding and subtracting color and painting.

In the Graphic Design course, students explore color use and theory, typography, page layout, image resolution and more. They work with these concepts using in image editing software. They also design and create their own images, both on paper and digitally, for familiar print mediums such as flyers, posters, and billboards.
Relevant projects include creating and printing a design on a T-shirt and designing advertisements for a school sports team, club or organization.

In the Digital Video Editing course, students study many of the tools and practices commonly used by professional video editors. This includes creating and editing video clips, inserting titles and still images, crafting transitions, using music and voice-overs and more. Students apply each new skill to producing a complete video.