Digital Media Arts is a one- or two-year program offered to junior and senior students. The classes are for visual and creative thinkers as well as computer geeks interested in cutting edge digital and media arts. The program offers the latest trends, techniques and technologies in the ever-evolving multimedia field. The wide variety of our curriculum provides opportunities to build skills for future success in careers as an illustrator, a desktop publisher, a photographer, a graphic artist, a digital video editor, in video studio staging, a film maker, a computer animator, a sound engineer, a camera operator, a web designer or other positions in the exciting and growing recording, entertainment and digital media arts field.

Students work at their own pace and get “hands-on” experience using state-of-the-art software, sound equipment, cameras, printers and broadcasting equipment in our sound and lighting studios.

All classes begin each fall and spring semester and you will take two classes per semester. All classes are dual-credit classes. You will receive high school and college credit at no cost to the student. Students completing a selection of five classes will receive a Certificate in Graphic Design and students completing an additional three elective classes will receive an Advanced Certificate in Digital Media Arts from Sauk Valley Community College. Students not able to complete the certificates while attending WACC are invited to enroll at Sauk Valley Community College after high school to finish the certificate requirements if they so choose.

The courses offered are: ART 100-Media Arts, ART 103-Digital Photography, ART 105-Motion Graphics, ART 107-Digital Drawing, ART 231-Graphic Design, ART 234-Multimedia, ART 236-Film and Video, ART 237-Image and Sound Recording, ART 238-Interactive Media Design, ART 299-Topics and Issues.

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