COURSE CODE: 8640

Radio Communications I

SCED Code: 11051
Virginia Extended Description: I
Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11
Duration: 36 Weeks
Hours: 140
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: None
OSHA Compliance Required?: No
CTSO: SkillsUSA
Non-Traditional?: F

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.

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Course Sequences

A combination of this course and those below, equivalent to two 36-week courses, is a concentration sequence. Students wishing to complete a specialization may take additional courses based on their career pathways. A program completer is a student who has met the requirements for a CTE concentration sequence and all other requirements for high school graduation or an approved alternative education program.

Career Clusters

Pathway Occupation
A/V Technology & Film
  • Audio and Video Technicians
Journalism & Broadcasting
  • Broadcast Technicians
Performing Arts

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