5702 Animation
This instructional program prepares students to use artistic and technological foundations to create animated presentations for industry and entertainment. Students will develop basic drawing and design skills, learn the fundamentals and physics movement, the concept of communication to a given audience, and techniques for self-expression through a variety of animated formats. They will explore the careers and requisite skills required by animators in both entertainment and the business world.
5980 Applied Communications
Applied Communications is an instructional program designed for students planning technical careers. Fifteen modules emphasize that the workplace requires various communications skills, which seldom occur in isolation. Each module includes a variety of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and problem-solving skills involved in the life and work situations presented.
5703 Architectural Drafting
This instructional program prepares individuals to support architects and/or architectural engineers in the development of plans for buildings or other structures while complying with a variety of building codes and zoning laws, staying within cost limitations, and satisfying client preferences.
5753 Bookbinding
This instructional program prepares individuals to gather pages, forms, and related materials for assembly into books or pamphlets. It includes instruction in binding and repairing books and documents.
5770 Broadcasting Technology
This instructional program prepares individuals to support broadcast managers in the production of materials and the production and broadcasting of materials or programs.
5754 Commercial Art
This instructional program prepares individuals to design and execute layouts and make illustrations for advertising displays and instructional manuals. It includes instruction in the preparation of copy; in lettering, poster, package, and product design; in fashion illustration; in silk screening; in airbrushing; and in ink and color dynamics.
5755 Commercial Photography
This instructional program prepares individuals to use cameras and laboratory film-processing techniques. It includes instruction in composition and color dynamics; contact printing; enlarging; developing film; the use of airbrushes, camera meters, and other photographic equipment; portrait, commercial, and industrial photography; processing microfilm; and preparing copy for printing or for graphic-arts processing.
5945 Communications Technology (drafting, electronics)
Communications technology courses explore the fundamentals of message design, production, and transmission. Included is occupational and consumer information that is related to this important part of an industrial and technological society. Learning experiences include activities that involve electronic and verbal communication as well as drafting, photography, and reprographics.
5756 Composition, Make-Up, and Typesetting
This instructional program prepares individuals to lay out, compose, and make up typesetting and typecast by hand and by machine.
5603 Computer Numerical Control
This instructional program prepares individuals to program and operate computerized numerical controlled machines. Study includes the evolution of a variety of numerical controlled machine tools and numerical control systems.
5711 Digital Animation
Integrated graphic technology digital animation courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in digital animation. Representative topics include integrated animation enterprises; composition and imaging; integrated graphic design; digital imaging; communication techniques; and analog and digital audio.
5940 Exploring Technology (general industrial arts)
This broad-based industrial technology education program provides middle school students with an integrated, common educational core. Its focus is on career guidance, power and energy technology, construction technology, manufacturing technology, communications technology, and tools and machines. As a result of participation in this program, students who are entering high school will be able to make informed educational decisions relating to career choices. These decisions will be based on the knowledge and skills acquired and will relate to personal interests and aptitudes.
5604 Foundry
This instructional program prepares individuals to engage in activities at ferrous and nonferrous foundries. It includes instruction in foundry equipment, various sands and refractors, sand and machine molding, core-making, chipping, grinding, foundry chemistry, and metallurgy.
5621 Graphic Arts Technology
Graphic arts courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in graphic arts and printing technology. Representative topics include printing enterprise, art and copy preparation, graphic design, image generation and assembly, reproduction photography, graphic reproduction operations, binding and finishing related to digital imaging, lithography, and screen printing.
5751 Graphic Communications
This instructional program prepares students to design and execute layouts, illustrations, advertising displays, and instructional materials. The programs are sequenced to focus on the fundamentals and the advanced instructional aspects of the graphic communication industry. Instructional experiences include basic and advanced theory and practices in classrooms and laboratories.
5605 Industrial Ceramics Manufacturing
This instructional program prepares individuals to engage in manufacturing activities to produce ceramic machine tools; refractors for space vehicles; and brick, glass, crockery, tile, pipe, and other articles made from clays and silicas. It includes instruction in testing physical, chemical, and heat-resisting properties of materials and in processing, forming, and firing clays to develop ceramic products.
5622 Integrated Graphics Technology
Integrated Graphics Technology courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in integrated graphics technology. Representative topics include integrated text, graphic, audio, and video enterprises; composition and imaging; on-demand publishing; desktop publishing; integrated graphic design; digital imaging; color separation theory; communication techniques; electronic prepress; electronic image assembly; analog and digital audio; integrated graphic media distribution; and integrated graphic media production and storage.
5606 Jewelry Design, Fabrication, and Repair
This instructional program prepares individuals to design, fabricate, and repair jewelry articles such as rings, brooches, pendants, bracelets, and lockets. It includes instruction in model making, casting, engraving, polishing, stone setting, and ring fitting. It also includes instruction in soldering broken parts, reshaping and restyling old jewelry, and in the use of special jeweler's hand tools and machines.
5615 Machine and Forming Technology
Machine and Forming Technology courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in machine tool and materials forming industries. Representative topics include the interpretation and layout of machine and formed-part prints; the cutting, shaping, fastening, and finishing of machine tools; and casting, forging, molding, cold forming, and shearing processes.
5607 Machine Tool Operation/Machine Shop
This instructional program prepares individuals to shape metal parts on machines such as lathes, grinders, drill presses, milling machines, and shapers. The program may also train individuals in the use of one machine tool. It includes instruction in making computations related to work dimensions, testing the feeds and speeds of machines using precision measuring instruments such as layout tools, micrometers, and gauges; machining and heat-treating various metals; and laying out machine parts.
5601 Manufacturing/Materials Processing
This instructional program prepares individuals for enrollment in advanced vocational and technical education programs and includes operational and basic technical information and laboratory experiences that are directly related to the manufacturing processes used in industry. The purpose of the program is to assist individuals in making meaningful occupational and educational choices. Instructional activities focus on the study of the information and the basic skills concerned with industrial technical materials and processes, including the properties and use of these materials as they are fabricated into usable products. Instructional activities involve hand and machine processes for the fabrication, analysis, or testing of metals, woods, and plastics. The program emphasizes production management in manufacturing and the documentation of industrial enterprise systems. It provides an introduction to manufacturing processes used in the design, tooling, and assembly of industrial products.
5955 Manufacturing Technology (Metal Shop)
This course is a study of the information and skills that relate to manufacturing processes, organizations, and occupations. A variety of materials, tools, and processes are used to give students a look at the important industrial and technical concepts of today and tomorrow.
5608 Metal Fabrication
This instructional program prepares individuals to fabricate and assemble a variety of products. It includes instruction in layout; the sequence of design; the construction of templates and fixtures; and the positioning, aligning, fitting, and welding of parts.
5609 Metallurgy
This instructional program describes the chemical, physical, and mechanical properties of materials, including metallic materials, alloys, ceramics, and polymers. Instruction includes material selection, heat treatment, and mechanical testing.
5610 Optical Goods
This instructional program prepares individuals to mold and cast optical products, patterns, and prototype parts such as eyeglass lenses and contact lenses.
5611 Plastic/Composites
This instructional program prepares individuals to mold and cast plastic parts, patterns, and prototype parts; fit, fabricate, and repair internal carvings; finish plastic parts; and assemble plastic components into products.
5975 Principles of Technology
Principles of Technology is a course designed for students planning technical careers. It includes 14 units presented over two years. Each of the 14 units deals with one principle as it applies in the four energy systems (mechanical, fluid, thermal, and electrical) that provide power for both simple and complex technological devices and equipment. The units also cover the mathematics needed to understand and apply the principles. They focus on work, rate, resistance, energy, power, and force transformers. The second year of instruction covers momentum, waves and vibrations, energy converters, transducers, radiation, optical systems, and time constraints. These studies complete the program.
5761 Printing Press Operations
This instructional program prepares individuals to prepare, operate, and maintain printing processes.
5612 Robotics
This instructional program prepares individuals to assemble, program, maintain, and repair robotic devices. It includes instruction in the history and development of robotic devices; the types of robotic devices used in industry and their component makeup; computer control systems and robot computer language programming; troubleshooting techniques, especially for servomechanisms, microprocessors, and computer operation; and the integration of these devices and factors into a total manufacturing system.
5613 Sheet Metal
This instructional program prepares individuals to lay out, fabricate, erect or install, and maintain systems using hand tools and machines such as cornice brakes, forming rolls, and squaring shears.
5762 Silk Screen Making and Printing
This instructional program prepares individuals to make silk screens and to perform silk screen printing operations.
5620 Specialized Welding Program
The specialized instructional program in high technology welding prepares individuals to use submerged arc welding (SAW), flex-core arc welding (FCAW), plasma arc welding (PAW), laser beam welding (LBW), and other advanced welding processes.
5970 Technology Core, Level 1
This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal, problem-solving techniques. Integrated content focuses on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.
5972 Technology Core, Level 2
This course represents a contextualized, laboratory-based, integrated curriculum opportunity for all high school students to learn about communication, transportation, energy, production, biotechnology, and integrated technology systems and processes that affect their lives. Students develop critical thinking skills through a variety of multimodal problem-solving techniques. Integrated content continues to focus on demystifying technology; increasing student literacy, confidence, and competence in an age of rapidly advancing technology; and providing students with the basis for making wise academic and career choices.
5614 Tool and Die Making
This instructional program prepares individuals to analyze specifications; lay out metal stock; and set up and operate machine tools to fit and assemble parts for the manufacture and repair of metal working dies, cutting tools, fixtures, gauges, and machinists' hand tools. It includes instruction in metal properties and in the applications and construction of tool and die designs.
5616 Welding: Combination
This instructional program prepares individuals to use both gas welding and any combination of arc welding processes to weld metal parts and plan and lay out materials as specified by diagrams, blueprints, or written specifications.
5617 Welding: Electric
This instructional program prepares individuals to use sheet metal arc welding (SMAW), methane inert gas metal arc welding (GMAW), and inert gas tungsten arc welding (GTAW) electrical welding equipment to weld metal parts. It includes instruction in planning and laying out materials as specified by diagrams, blueprints, or written specifications.
5618 Welding: Gas
This instructional program prepares individuals to use gas welding (OAW) and flame cutting equipment to weld or cut metal parts and to plan and lay out materials as specified by diagrams, blueprints, or written specifications.
5619 Welding: Technology
Welding technology courses provide students with an understanding of manufacturing processes and systems common to careers in welding and related industries. Representative topics include the interpretation and layout of welded and assembled-part prints, mechanical bonding, joining, cohesive bonding, adhesive bonding, and mechanical fastening.
5649 Other Manufacturing Technology Course
This designation is for an instructional program/course in Manufacturing Technology that is not described above.
5798 Other Visual Communications, Graphics Course
This designation is for an instructional program or course in Visual Communications, Graphics Technology that is not described above.
