Academy of Digital Arts
Students develop creative and technical skills in digital imaging, graphic design, visual storytelling, branding, and emerging media technologies. From foundational design principles to advanced portfolio development, students learn to produce professional-quality digital work across print and web formats. Graduates leave with a curated portfolio that supports admission into university art and design programs or entry-level roles such as:
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Graphic Designer
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Digital Media Specialist
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Content Creator
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Social Media Manager
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Brand Designer
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Marketing Assistant
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Web Designer
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Multimedia Production Assistant
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This pathway prepares students for careers in creative industries, marketing, digital communications, and visual media.
Academy Track
Digital Arts 1 (#0108370)
Students explore the fundamental concepts, terminology, techniques, and applications of digital imaging to create original work. Students produce digital still images through the single or combined use of computers, digital cameras, scanners, photo editing software, drawing and painting software, graphic tablets, printers, new media, and emerging technologies.
Digital Arts 2 (#0108380)
Students explore and develop concepts, terminology, techniques, and applications to design, create, print, and display original two-dimensional graphic and fine works of art. Students design digital still images through the single or combined use of computers, digital cameras, scanners, photo editing software, drawing and painting software, graphic tablets, printers, new media, and emerging technologies.
Digital Arts 3 Honors (#0108390)
Students explore advanced topics through project-based work, becoming more self-directed in their acquisition and use of concepts, terminology, techniques, and applications to design, create, print, and display original two-dimensional graphic and fine works of art in print and web formats. Students design and produce digital still images through the single or combined use of computers, digital cameras, scanners, photo editing software, drawing and painting software, graphic tablets, printers, new media, and emerging technologies.
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Senior Capstone: Portfolio Development (#0109320)
Students work in a self-directed environment to develop a portfolio showing a body of their own work that visually explores a particular artistic concern, articulated and supported by a written artist's statement. Artists may work in, but are not limited to, content in drawing, painting, printmaking, mixed media, traditional photography, digital photography, and/or new media and emerging technologies that demonstrate understanding of design principles as applied to a 2-dimensional surface.
