Arts, Media & Entertainment
Your Platform Awaits
Put both your creative spirit and your technical mind to work to create visual assets for the digital world. Your talent could take you anywhere from education to entertainment to advertising and beyond!
Which pathways are offered?
Animation— This pathway prepares students to conceptualize and bring animation to life using learned art principles to effectively communicate their ideas through combined artistic elements.
Design, Visual & Media: Multimedia Production— This pathway prepares students to use computer software to communicate ideas that inspire, inform, and captivate consumers.
Digital Photography—This pathway is designed for students who want to enhance their photographic knowledge and abilities with an emphasis on skills used in commercial photography.
Game Design & Integration—This pathway prepares students to create design specifications and integrate art and sound, translating it all into a playable game. This requires knowledge of computer operating systems, programming and markup languages (JAVA, Python, C++, HTML5/CSS), and software development.
Graphic Design—This pathway prepares students to produce digitally generated or computer-enhanced media used in business, training, entertainment, communications, and marketing.
Web Design—This pathway prepares students to create, design, and produce interactive multimedia products and services.
What types of jobs can my student learn about and prepare for?*
Some of the jobs include:
3D animator
Applications software developer
Art/graphics director
Computer programmer
Graphic designer
Photographer
What could my future look like in this career field?**
**Data is from Lightcast and is updated frequently.
Which industry-recognized, in-demand certifications and exams can my student prepare for?
ACT National Career Readiness
Adobe After Effects
Adobe Animate
Adobe Dreamweaver
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Premiere
Adobe Photoshop
Certiport Unity
Microsoft Office certifications (up to four, each attainable in one semester)***
***Many Microsoft®️ Office certificates can be earned after completing one course. Other certificates require more classes to be better prepared, and students who participate in the program for at least two years will have further preparation for certification testing.
