PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Students gain practice in all areas of offset lithography, screen printing and laser engraving through a variety of projects and actual customer service work. The main focus is computer aided design.  The course is designed to prepare the students for entry level positions in the printing industry. All students gain extensive experience and training on computers using professional graphic arts applications. Every student gains graphic arts experience working with digital cameras, and sigle and multi-color offset presses, and bindery equipment. The process of screen printing is learned printing textiles on a four-color screen press. The second year of the program allows students to concentrate on employability skills in one or more specialized areas of printing while creating, setting up, and working as a team. Students complete up to 200 live jobs in customer service/printing production. Production management, job planning/scheduling, estimating, critical thinking, problem solving, and quality control concepts are taught as the year progresses.

PROGRAM CIP CODE: 10.0301                                                     P.S.N.02126

TEXTBOOK(S): Graphic Communications, The Printed Image, Third Edition, Z.A. Prust, Goodheart-Wilcox, 2003

SOFTWARE: Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, CorelDraw X3

SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE PROGRAM: Students construct a portfolio for job interviews and/or college studies. Live customer service work is performed. Students compete in skill competitions on regional, state and national levels. Employability skill instruction is incorporated into the curriculum. Work-based learning opportunities are available. Articulated college credit is available from Ferris State University, Delta, Mid Michigan Community College and Baker College.

STUDENT LEADERSHIP ACTIVITIES:  Opportunities are available for students to improve their occupational knowledge, skills and leadership through CTSO membership, competitions, community volunteer projects, student–led meetings, and/or intra-curricular activities. In a positive experiential learning environment, students develop leadership and management skills, responsibility and self-confidence, communication and decision making skills, good citizenship and respect for other cultures, as well as a basic understanding of parliamentary procedures.  These activities help students set and realize their career goals, and instill a sense of the duty and responsibility associated with being a role model, mentor, volunteer and future community leader.

JOB TITLES AVAILABLE                                        JOB TITLES REQUIRING FURTHER

AT MPATC:                                                               TRAINING/CERTIFICATION/EDUCATION:
Offset Pressperson                                                Estimator

Desktop Publisher                                                  Production Scheduler

Bindery Technician                                                 Customer Service Representative

Image Assembler                                                   Sales Representative

Scanner/Flattop Operator                                      Production Manager

Cutter Operator                                                        Entrepreneur

Folder Operator                                                       Quality Control Supervisor

Screen Printer                                                          Systems Controller

Platemaker                                                               Marketing Coordinator

Proofer

Link to State Curriculum Standards/Segments:

MICHIGAN CURRICULUM FRAMEWORK

Content Standards and Benchmarks by Subject Area

Graphic Arts

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (12 Content Standards)

   Meaning and Communication:

•  All students will read and comprehend general and technical material.

•  All students will demonstrate the ability to write clear and grammatically correct sentences, paragraphs, and compositions (demonstrate fluency for multiple purposes, recognize techniques, edit texts, select appropriate language structure).

•  All students will focus on meaning and communication as they listen, speak, view, read, and write in personal, social, occupational, and civic contexts.

•  All students will use the English language effectively.

Voice :

•  All students will learn to communicate information accurately and effectively and demonstrate their expressive abilities by creating oral, written, and visual texts that enlighten and engage an audience.

Skills and Processes:

•  All students will demonstrate, analyze, and reflect upon the skills and processes used to communicate through listening, speaking, viewing, reading, and writing.

Genre and Craft of Language:

•  All students will explore and use the characteristics of different types of texts, aesthetic elements, and mechanics - including text structure, figurative and descriptive language, spelling, punctuation, and grammar - to construct and convey

meaning.

Ideas in Action:

•  All students will apply knowledge, ideas, and issues drawn from texts to their lives and the lives of others.

Inquiry and Research:

•  All students will define and investigate important issues and problems using a variety of resources, including technology, to explore and create texts.

Critical Standards:

•  All students will develop and apply personal, shared, and academic criteria for the enjoyment, appreciation, and evaluation of their own and others' oral, written, and visual texts.

SOCIAL STUDIES (24 Content Standards)

Inquiry:

•  All students will acquire information from books, maps, newspapers, data sets and other sources, organize and present the information in maps, graphs, charts and timelines, interpret the meaning and significance of information, and use a variety of electronic technologies to assist in accessing and managing information.

SCIENCE (15 Content Standards)

Construct New Scientific and Personal Knowledge:

•  All students will ask questions that help them learn about the world; design and

conduct investigations using appropriate methodology and technology; learn from books and other sources of information; communicate their findings using appropriate technology; and reconstruct previously learned knowledge.

MATHEMATCS (13 Content Standards)

Geometry and Measurement:

•  Students develop spatial sense, use shape as an analytic and descriptive tool,

identify characteristics and define shapes, identify properties and describe relationships among shapes.

•  Students identify locations of objects, identify location relative to other objects,

and describe the effects of transformations (e.g. sliding, flipping, turning, enlarging, reducing) on an object.

•  Students compare attributes of two objects, or of one object with a standard

(unit), and analyze situations to determine what measurement(s) should be made and to what level of precision.

   Data Analysis and Statistics:

•  Students collect and store data, organize data into useful form, and develop skill in

representing and reading data, displayed in different formats-collection, organization and presentation of data.

Probability and Discrete Mathematics:

•  Students investigate practical situations such as scheduling, routing, sequencing, networking, organizing and classifying, and analyze ideas such like recurrence relations, induction, iteration, and algorithm design.

CAREER AND EMPLOYABILITY SKILLS (10 Content Standards)

   Applied Skills:

•  All students will apply basic communication skills (e.g., reading, writing, speaking, and listening), apply scientific and social studies concepts, and perform mathematical processes in work-related situations.

Career Planning:

•  All students will acquire, organize, interpret, and evaluate information from career

awareness and exploration activities, career assessment, and work-based experiences to identify and pursue their career goals.

Developing and Presenting Information:

•  All students will demonstrate the ability to combine ideas or information in new ways, make connections between see, seemingly unrelated ideas, and organize and present information in formats such as symbols, pictures, schematics, charts, and graphs.

Problem Solving:

•  All students will make decisions and solve problems by specifying goals, identifying resources and constraints, generating alternatives, considering impacts, choosing appropriate alternatives, and evaluating results.

Personal Management:

•  All students will display personal qualities such as responsibility, self-management, ethical behavior, and respect for self and others.

Organizational Skills:

•  All students will identify, organize, plan, and allocate resources (such as time,

money, materials, and human resources) efficiently and effectively.

Teamwork:

•  All students will work cooperatively with people of diverse backgrounds and abilities, and will contribute to a group process with ideas, suggestions, and efforts.

Using Employability Skills:

•  All students will integrate employability skills into behaviors which prepare one for

obtaining, maintaining, advancing, and changing employment.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (8 Content Standards)

Personal and Social Character Traits:

•  All students will demonstrate appropriate behavior (at least 95% of the time) related to selected personal/social character traits that commonly emerge in a physical activity context.

TECHNOLOGY (6 Content Standards)

   Using and Transferring:

•  All students will use and transfer technological knowledge and skills for life roles.

Using Information Technologies:

•  All students will use technologies to input, retrieve, organize, manipulate, evaluate,

and communicate information.

Applying Appropriate Technologies:

•  All students will apply appropriate technologies to critical thinking, creative expression, and decision-making skills.

Employing Systematic Approach:

•  All students will employ a systematic approach to technological solutions by using resources and processes to create, maintain, and improve products, systems, and environments.

Applying Standards:

•  All students will apply ethical and legal standards in planning, using, and evaluating technology.

HEALTH EDUCATION (7 Content Standards)

ARTS EDUCATION-dance, music, theater, and visual arts (5 Content Standards)

   Performing:

•  All students will apply skills and knowledge to perform in the arts

Creating:

•  All students will apply skills and knowledge to create in the arts.

Analyzing in Context:

•  All students will analyze, describe, and evaluate works of art.

WORLD LANGUAGES (10 Content Standards)

LIFE MANAGEMENT EDUCATION (10 Content Standards)