Stafford Technical Center

Digital Arts

Digital Arts students explore careers in the fine arts, design, interactive multimedia, illustration, digital photography and animation for print, the web, television, film, CD and future technologies. Students explore communication and visual language through hands-on project based activities.  The class often functions as an advertising agency/production house. Working with Stafford as a client, students create logos and marketing strategies that appeal to their peers.  Personal vision and individual artistic aesthetic are nurtured and encouraged, fostering student investment in project based learning.

Units:

• Art History
• Digital Photography
• Computer Animation
• Illustration
• Interactive Multimedia
• Web Design
• Graphic Design
• Script Writing
• Mass Media
• Digital Imaging
• Digital Media as Fine Art
• Fine Arts skills

Class Activities:

This is a college bound program.  Students develop a portfolio of work for the college application process.  Curriculum and specific lessons are based on introductory college curriculum.

Job Opportunities:

• 2D Animator
• Graphic Designer
• Interactive Multimedia Developer
• 3D Animator
• Special Effects
• Multimedia Developer
• Web Designer
• Sequential Artist
• Illustrator
• Digital Photographer

Sample Schedule/Credits and Embedded Credit:
(*Indicates Department of Education mandated academic embedded credit.  All other embedded credits are the recommendation of Stafford Technical Center and are granted at the discretion of the student’s sending school.)

1 English
1 Art* or 1 Social Studies
1 Computer Applications
3 Digital Arts
1 English

Articulation and Dual Enrollment:
Lyndon State College- up to 15 credits
Community Colleges of Vermont -up to 6 transferable credits (dual enrollment)
Castleton State College – 3 credits
New England Institute of Art – 3 credits

Application procedures

Application essay

Application for 2nd year students

Certification:
Students completing 90% of the Core Competencies will receive a certificate from STAFFORD TECHNICAL CENTER.