Title: Syllabus
Course: Commercial Photography I (11052-I)

Copyright: 2025

Virginia Assignment Code: 8607

Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11

Duration: 36 weeks

Hours: 140

Credits: 1

Prerequisites: None

CTSO: SkillsUSA

Course Description:

The ability to produce visual content gives students an advantage in today's global, multimedia society. Students will learn industry-relevant technical skills and work with a variety of technology, including digital cameras, design software, and editing tools to stage, capture, process, print, and present professional-grade commercial images. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide 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:

https://www.cteresource.org/career-clusters/arts-av-technology-communications/commercial-photography-i/