The Associate Degree program includes courses designed to give the student a full understanding of radio and television, as well as to prepare the student for employment in the expanding area of business and industrial communications. Content of the program has been developed to enrich each student's overall concept of business and technology. Basic and general educational courses enhance the technical education and enable students to advance toward career objectives. Graduates from this program would be qualified for entry level positions in small and medium broadcast markets.

The program is 60 semester credit hours. Both day and evening classes are offered. The program takes four fifteen week semesters to complete as a full-time student. The program is also available on a part time basis, the length of time to complete the program on a part-time basis, is based on each individual student's class load for each semester. The average class size is 12 students per class.

Employment Markets:
. Disc Jockey
. Promotion Director
. Traffic Coordinator
. Master Control Technician
. Radio or Television Sales Representative
. Floor Director
. Copywriter
. Video Editor
. Camera Operator
. Music Director
. Production Assistant

This Associate Degree program includes courses designed to give the student a full understanding of Video Production and Recording/Audio Engineering both as separate disciplines and in a marriage of the two. Audio which used to be an afterthought in most dominant presentations, is now more of a quality concern than in the past. The ability to work in both the visual and audio is increasingly important. The program concentrates on t he audio art as it relates to the traditional music recording industry and its new partnership with video. Basic and general education courses enhance the technical education and enable students to advance toward career objectives.

The emergence of new technologies and program forms, such as music videos bring the need for well-rounded, versatile professionals, trained in both video and audio. The program achieves this through a combination of lecture and in-studio experience, with the emphasis placed on "hands-on" training. Students will learn to take projects from their initial concepts to finished production.

The program is 60 semester credit hours. Both day and evening classes are offered. The program takes four fifteen week semesters to complete as a full-time student. The program is also available on a part time basis, the length of time to complete the program on a part-time basis, is based on each individual student's class load for each semester. The average class size is 12 students per class.

The primary educational goal of the Recording/Audio Engineering Program is to teach the operation of professional recording and sound reinforcement equipment, as well as to prepare the Student for the many aspects of the music industry as we know it today. This will include theory, music history, the music industry, songwriting, publishing, copyrighting, and business communications.

The education is provided through a combination of lecture classes and in-studio experience, with an emphasis on the "hands-on" training portion of the program. Students will actually participate in the recording of musical artists and bands, performing the tasks of everything from controlling the consoles to doing the final mix-down for the finished recorded product. Students will also learn how to do remote recording, commercial production work, tape editing, dubbing, live sound reinforcement, and a variety of other tasks that relate to the recording industry.

Curriculum for the Recording/Audio Engineering Program is designed to accommodate a wide variety of backgrounds. From the young person just graduating from high school with little or no musical background or experience, to the veteran musician who may already have studio recording experience.

The Diploma Program is 28 semester credit hours. The program requires two fifteen week semesters to complete. Classes are offered in both the day and evening for your convenience.

Employment Markets:
. Assistant or Second Engineer
. Audio Production Technician
. Live Sound Engineer
. Long range career goals would include positions such as producers and actual recording artists themselves.

The Diploma Broadcasting I program includes courses designed to give the student the basic elementary skills to work in Radio and Television. The student is able to select an emphasis in either radio or television to give themselves additional experience in and exposed to the area of particular interest to the student. Positions that students who complete the Broadcasting I program would be qualified for are listed below. The program is ideal for students already holding four year degrees who wish t o take the radio/television program but for whom an Associated Degree is not of utmost importance., All courses offered in this program are also found in the Associate Degree at ICB. The diploma program is designed for the individual who is not interested in pursuing the management, programming or advanced levels of broadcasting.

The Diploma Program is 34 semester credit hours. The program requires three fifteen week semesters to complete. Classes are offered in both the day and evening for your convenience.

Employment Entry Markets:
 . Radio On-Air Personality
 . Board Operator
 . Camera Operator
 . Television Lighting Technician and many other entry level positions