Arts & Communications

Interests     Skills     Abilities     Sample Careers     Courses

The Arts & Communications pathways are programs of study related to the humanities and to the performing, visual, literary, and media arts.

Career Clusters

• Arts, A/V Technology & Communications

Interests

• Being Artistic
• Speaking in front of others
• Working with designs
• Frequenting movies, theatre, concerts, and art museums
• Being self-expressive
• Working with patterns
• Creating things
• Focusing on projects
• Being Flexible
• Using imagination
• Working with people
• Helping others
• Writing

Skills

• Creating approaches to problems
• Motivating others
• Analyzing needs
• Changing things to achieve goals
• Imagining how things should work
• Gathering and organizing information
• Talking to others effectively
• Being aware of others'7 reactions
• Evaluating ideas
• Writing
• Planning
• Managing time effectively
• Listening to others

Abilities

• Coming up with unusual or clever ideas
• Speaking clearly
• Communicating written ideas clearly
• Communicating verbally in a clear manner
• Imagining how something will look after it is rearranged
• Reading and understanding written information
• Originating numerous ideas on a topic
• Recalling information
• Distinguishing differences between colors, shades, and brightness
• Coordinating body movements
• Reorganizing spatial relationships
• Seeing details of objects
• Arranging things or actions

Sample Careers

High School Diploma

• Compositor
• Floral Designer
• Fashion Model

• Hair Stylist/Cosmetologist
• Musician/Composer
• Sign Painter

• Artist
• Camera Operator
• Commercial Artist
• Fashion Designer

• Graphic Designer
• Jeweler
• Photographer
• Technical Illustrator4

• Actor
• Advertising
• Commercial Artist
• Journalist

• Language Interpreter
• Musician/Composer
• TV Production Director
• Writer/Editor