You will be able to:
- Radio broadcasting including tape and digital audio production, DJ and news announcing
- Television and video including studio and portable production, type and digital editing, and talent
- Photography including black/white and color darkroom, electronic digital photo, and modeling skills
- Mac and PC-based and digital production
- Journalism and copywriting
- Cinematography and animation including 8mm and 16mm films
- Telecommunications and marketing
- Design print publications on a Mac using professional design application programs
- Graphic arts photography
- Web design
- Printing press operation
- Bindery operation
Students use applied communication, math, science and social studies skills in the WQNA-FM studios, CACC-TV studios, darkrooms and photo studios, Internet and Multimedia labs. Students will use software applications including: Adobe Photoshop, Premiere, PageMaker and Illustrator, QuarkXPress, Broadcast Software and Cool Audio Edit, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint and Internet Explorer; Netscape Navigator and Communicator; and Hypertext Markup Language. Classes make extensive use of student teams and hands-on lab projects. Students may participate in job shadowing, internships, and community projects.
You will be able to start your career as a(n):
- Radio Broadcaster
- Television Production
- Advertising/Public Relations
- Graphic Designer
- Web Designer
- Printing Pressman
- Illustrator
- Production Artist
- Photographer
- Journalist
- Digital Imager
- Computer Digital Media
- Media and Telecom Retailer
- Telemarketing
CACC students are employed by:
- WICS TV 20
- WRSP TV 55
- WFMB-WCVS
- WDBR-WTAX-WYXY
- WQLZ/WNNS-WMAY
- CPI Photo
- Lisle Ramsey Photography
- Grussenmeyer's Photography
- University of Illinois at Springfield
- Photo Resource Center
- LLCC
- SIU School of Medicine
- Illinois Senate and House
- Insight Cable TV
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- State of Illinois
- Sears, JC Penney Portrait Studios
- Photo Service Corporation
- Dean Williams Photography
- St. George Productions
- Memorial Medical Center
- Byers Printing Company
- Color World of Printing
- Production Press, Inc.
- Minuteman Press
- Overnight Sign Company
- Lilly Signs
- G.M. Anderson & Associates
- HIP Advertising
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Tech prep courses and credits available:
Over the past five years, over 70% of Communications & Media graduates were enrolled in college. Communications & Media graduates may receive academic credit or proficiency credit at Southern Illinois University; Eastern Illinois University; Lake Land, John Wood or Lincoln Land Community College and other colleges, universities and technical institutes. College students may also enroll in Communications & Media through Lincoln Land Community College.
