Essential Skill Alignment Chart: Advertising Design/Commercial Art – CIP Code 50.0402

This chart is designed to help students and parents understand the educational and physical expectations and/or recommendations for the Advertising Design/Commercial Art program at LCTI. For additional information, please visit the program webpage.

Program Safety & Physical Considerations

  • High degree of self-discipline and focus needed in the program and industry
  • Must be able to work independently and with teams
  • Ability to sit at work station and focus on a project for an extended period of time

Essential Aptitudes Recommended

  • Color discrimination
  • Finger and manual dexterity
  • Spatial acuity
  • Eye/hand coordination
  • Fine motor skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Ability to discriminate between objects of similar size, shape, and color
  • Depth perception
  • Visual acuity
  • Form perception
  • Visualization
  • Clerical perception

Reading & Language Arts Levels

  • College Prep Reading and Language Arts
  • Technical reading and writing skills
  • Oral and written communication skills

Math Level

  • Basic General Math skills
  • Addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, read a ruler, manipulation of fractions, decimals, percentages, and ratio and proportions

End of Year – 12th Grade Assessment Test

  • NOCTI

Industry Certifications

  •  Students will have the opportunity to earn industry certifications in the program

Program Requirements & Related Costs

  • Must follow LCTI Dress Code

 Cooperative Education

  •  Students who meet all the requirements, including teacher recommendation, grades, attendance, and discipline record
  • Students must provide their own transportation to and from the job site

Articulation Agreements

  • The Art Institute of Pittsburgh
  • Harrisburg University
  • Lehigh Carbon Community College
  • Statewide Articulation Agreements 

Other Skills

  • Critical thinking skills
  • Time management skills
  • Ability to meet deadlines
  • Basic drafting knowledge
  • Computer background
  • Drawing ability
  • Color keenness
  • Detail oriented
  • Creativity
  • Ability to accept constructive feedback

4500
Education Park Drive

Schnecksville, PA
18078

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