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Grade Level: 9 - 12
Length: Year Class (10 credits)
Prerequisite: None
Graduation: Fulfills 10 Credits of Fine Arts
Design Drafting is a one year course designed to acquaint students with a
pictorial language used throughout industry. The course teaches drafting
fundamentals and provides hands on experience for developing drafting skills
and techniques. It is designed to provide the student with a background
in basic mechanical and technical drawing. This course helps students
develop problemsolving ability, interpret the ideas of others, and express
themselves visually in an understandable manner. Drafting provides a wide
range of skills that are transferable to many aspects of everyday life.
Emphasis is on the basic use of traditional drafting equipment and the
understanding of design/drafting principles as they apply, but are not
limited to, future pursuits in the architectural and engineering career field.
Grade Level: 10 - 12
Length: Year Class (10 credits)
Prerequisite: Keyboarding I
Graduation: Fulfills elective credit.
Using Adobe InDesign and PhotoShop software, Desktop Publishing introduces
the fundamentals of creating flyers, ads, brochures, announcements, invitations,
greeting cards, business cards, letterheads, envelopes, and handbooks. Placement,
sizing, cropping of graphics, print styles, and font sizes are included. Students
create personal documents or documents for other people during the course.
Students complete special projects for teachers, business, and school offices.
Beginning Fashion Design and Construction
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Length: Semester Class (5 credits max.)
Prerequisite: Beginning Art (may be taken concurrently) or recommendation
of teacher.
Graduation: Fulfills Fine Arts requirements or elective credit.
This course will teach the basics of clothing construction and is
designed as a prerequisite to intermediate/advanced Fashion Design
and Theater Costume Design. The fundamentals of fabric
composition and construction, pattern selection, layout and assembly
will be taught. Students learn to use a sewing machine and will learn
basic hand-sewing techniques. Students design the garments which
they construct, combining their own ideas with resources on the
Internet. Students are required to purchase their own fabric and
patterns, as approved by the teacher.
Intermediate/Advanced Fashion Design and Construction
Grade Level: 9-12
Length: Semester Class (20 credits max.)
Prerequisite: Beginning Art, Beginning Fashion Design &
Construction or recommendation of the teacher.
Graduation: Fulfills Fine Arts and elective credits.
This course is a continuation of Beginning Fashion Design and
Construction. More emphasis will be placed on the creation of
original designs. Emphasis will include color, line, texture and
unique and individual styling. Students may use the Internet as well
as computer programs to assist them with their designs. The class
will culminate with a fashion show, which will be video taped and
may be broadcast. Students will be required to purchase their own
fabric and patterns, as approved by the teacher.
Grade Level: 9 - 12
Length: Semester Class (5 credits)
Prerequisite: None
Graduation: Fulfills elective credit
This class is intended to provide students who do not know the keyboard with
basic keyboarding skills. Using the keyboard is essential for success in a
majority of required classes for graduation and for future college/career
requirements. Keyboarding I will focus on development of proper keyboard
technique. Students are expected to learn the keyboard by touch. During
this course, students will learn basic formatting of word processed documents,
such as Academic Reports.