Copyright: 2023
Virginia Assignment Code: 8640
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11
Duration: 36 weeks
Hours: 140
Prerequisites: None
CTSO: SkillsUSA
Course Description:
Students learn practices related to managing and operating a broadcasting station. Students examine the radio industry, news reporting, station frameworks and protocols, radio sales and budgeting, and broadcast engineering. Students learn basic electricity and electronics, all aspects of safety, and related mathematics. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) provides experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.
Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here: