After exploring as many courses as possible, the student can then choose to concentrate in an area. The sequence within any area can continue for 3 years and lead, upon graduation, to work or enrollment in a 2 or 4 year college. If the student prefers an honors option it should be understood that considerable extra work will be mandatory.
All students can select courses within any of three clusters.
This course introduces students to past, present, and emerging technologies in the areas of communications, manufacturing and construction, transportation and power, and bio-related industries. Dealing with how changing technologies have affected our world markets and competition for jobs, a range of tools, machines, materials, and processes will be introduced, discussed, and when possible, used to solve problems. An introductory level course designed to explore the areas of mechanical and architectural drafting. This course deals with designing and reproducing business and personal cards, notepads and an introduction to desktop publishing where the student will publish a one to two page photo journalism piece using the Macintosh computer. A variety of experiences will be offered in layout and design, process photography and offset printing.